Dario Scarpa

Two years of Particular Reality Well, not really two years

Time flies! It's the second anniversary of #ParticularReality, celebrated with a new #DevLog entry.

#gameDev #indieGameDev #vrDev #prototyping #vrGame #metaquest

Advanced Prototyping - Week #34 Guiding through portals

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week 34: making use of the hint system, it's time to teach players how to open portals...

#gameDev #indieGameDev #vrDev #prototyping #fsm #vrGame #metaquest

First person perspective, looking towards a portal. Orange particles show the gesture to perform, and the player hands prepare to execute it.

Now editing the new post for the #ParticularReality #DevLog, to be published in a few hours.
Meanwhile, it's #screenshotsaturday!
#vrdev #indiegamedev #gamedev #prototyping #handtracking #bodytracking #gamedesign #metaquest

Advanced Prototyping - Week #33 Guiding out of the limbo

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week 33: after working on the hint system, it's finally time to make use of it!
Let's start by teaching players how to get out of the #mixedreality limbo...

particularreality.substack.com/p/advanced-p...

#gameDev #indieGameDev #vrDev #prototyping #fsm #vrGame #metaquest

Advanced Prototyping - Week #32 Smart particles hints

This week on the #ParticularReality #DevLog: using captured #bodytracking clips to teach gestures, another building block of the tutorial/hint system!

particularreality.substack.com/p/advanced-p...

#gameDev #indieGameDev #vrDev #prototyping #metaquest3 #gameProgramming #vrGame

Sounds simple but flexible/tunable enough, so I like it.
But resistant/vulnerable, from your description/formulas, are the same thing. Maybe an opportunity to simplify and use a single parameter (which can be also be negative), and also remove a branch?

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - graphic adventure (Tech Demo) by hexence A fan made Star Wars adventure in the spirit of the LucasArts classics.

Well, if I got your curiosity, you can get it from hexence.itch.io/starwars-sot.... If you can't hear the music, make sure that, running winsetup.exe, "use digital music pack if available" is checked. In the setup utility, you can also select the game language (ENG/ITA/GER available).

YouTube video by MrNiupic Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - Hunting the Hunter - Prologue (adventure game)

The "real" game, unfortunately, remains incomplete and unpublished to this day, even if we showed a few bits in the following years, (e.g., the prologue, here in this Youtube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dita...)

Feels incredible (and somewhat horrifying) that twenty years have gone by.
The tech demo was quite successful ("Best Demo" AGS award 2005!), and we learnt a lot from developing it. Despite the name, it's a self-contained short game which takes around half an hour to complete.

Well, happy new year!
Exactly twenty years ago, in the night of Jan 1st 2005, I was putting online the tech demo of "Shadows of the Empire: graphic adventure", a Star Wars fan game I had been working for a while with Cristiano Caliendo and Davide Canavero.

Advanced Prototyping - Week #31 Smart particles hints

The #ParticularReality #DevLog is back! This time, we work on the hint system particles, one of the building blocks needed to teach players how to play.

Read it now!

#gamedev #vrDev #prototyping #tutorial #hintSystem #metaquest3 #indieGameDev

Cover for the upcoming DevLog post. Title: Advanced Prototyping - Week #31 - Smart particles hints

Just a bit of editing tomorrow morning, and... here we go again!

#ParticularReality #DevLog #hintSystem #tutorial #gameProgramming #vrGame #gameDev #indieGameDev #vrDev #vrGame #metaQuest3 #handTracking #bodyTracking #prototyping

You know when you wait for the holidays so that you can finally work in peace? :D

The #ParticularReality #DevLog will be back this saturday!

#happyHolidays #MerryXMAS #gamedev #vrdev #prototyping #handtracking #bodytracking #metaquest3

As UK/Italy coproduction with "Daring Touch", "Shadows on the Vatican: Nightingale" joins "Games in Italy", the exclusive sale dedicated to Italian titles, promoted by IIDEA.

40% off!

Grab it now: bit.ly/NG_Steam
Check the other games: store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesin...

Advanced Prototyping - Week #30 Particles and portals

The implementation of the smart #particles continues, this time crossing paths with the #portal subsystem, which keeps evolving.

Check the latest #ParticularReality #DevLog!

#vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #gamedesign #gameprogramming #vrgame

YouTube video by BinaryCharm Semantic Color Palette (Unity Asset) in 30 seconds

"Semantic Color Palette" joins "TextMeshPro Alpha" and "Text Color Buttons" in getting a compatibility update for #Unity6!

The new version features two alternate versions of the sample scene, using HDRP and URP.

Get it here on the #AssetStore: u3d.as/2TrH

#ux #gamedev #indiedev #ui #workflow

YouTube video by BinaryCharm TextMeshPro Alpha (Unity Asset) in 15 sec

"TextMeshPro Alpha", available for $6.99 on the #Unity #AssetStore, has just been updated to v.1.1.1, which includes a couple of fixes to gain full compatibility with #Unity6.

#gamedev #madewithunity #ui #ux #texteffects #uidesign #indiedev #textfading

Want it for free? ⬇️

Advanced Prototyping - Week #29 Smart particles basics

The new #ParticularReality #DevLog marks the start of a new journey: the design and implementation of the "smart particles" which will be a key element of the game.

Don't miss it!

#bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #gamedesign #vrgame #particles #portals

Week 29... done!
The #ParticularReality #DevLog will be back tomorrow afternoon :)

#bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #gameprogramming #vrgame #prototyping #particles #portals

Our "Text Color Buttons", available for #free on the #Unity #AssetStore, has just been updated to v.1.1.1, which includes a small fix to make it fully compatible with #Unity6.

Get it now! u3d.as/2F3B

#gamedev #free #madewithunity #assetstore #ui #ux #buttons #color #uidesign

Here we go!

Advanced Prototyping - Week #28 Improving portals (again)

#Portals are a key element of the #ParticularReality #locomotion system. In this week #DevLog, they get a bit of love with significant refactoring and a couple of important fixes.

#bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #vrgame #indiedev

YouTube video by BinaryCharm Particular Reality - DevLog 2024-10-04

#ParticularReality #prototyping week 28: done!
The #DevLog will get published tomorrow. Meanwhile, a small video preview just taken off my #metaquest3...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lir4...

#vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #gameprogramming #vrgame #portal #rendering

YouTube video by BinaryCharm Particular Reality - Devlog 2024-10-03

Another day spent #ThinkingWithPortals... and writing the #ParticularReality #DevLog that will be published this weekend :)

#vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #gameprogramming #vrgame #prototyping #portal #rendering

Advanced Prototyping - Week #27 Leaving the limbo

In the natural prosecution of last week post, we handle the embodying of the (test) avatar when exiting the #mixedreality limbo...

Read now the #ParticularReality #DevLog!

#bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #gameprog

YouTube video by BinaryCharm Particular Reality - #screenshotsaturday Clip (2024-09-28)

Exiting the mixed reality limbo and embodying the test avatar... this #screenshotsaturday is a tease for the #ParticularReality #DevLog coming out later!

#mixedreality #bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #fsm #gameprogramming #vrgame #prototyping

Not a bad development week, if you ask me!
The new #ParticularReality #DevLog will be published tomorrow :)

#mixedreality #bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #fsm #gameprogramming #vrgame #prototyping

YouTube video by BinaryCharm Particular Reality - Proof Of Concept Prototype - Locomotion Demo

Last year, on the #MetaConnect day, I presented the proof-of-concept of #ParticularReality, showing how it solves #vr #locomotion. Looking forward to see if any new features which could benefit the game are going to be presented tomorrow!

#MetaQuest #gamedev

Advanced Prototyping - Week #26 Revisiting the player avatar

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week 26 of advanced #prototyping!

We go back to the avatar and prepare it to handle different modes...

#screenshotsaturday #bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #fsm #gameprogramming #vrgame

Last chance to read particularreality.substack.com/p/advanced-p... before tomorrow's post :)

#ParticularReality #DevLog #bodytracking #handtracking #vrdev #gamedev #indiegamedev #metaquest3 #gamedesign #gameprogramming #vrgame #solodev