Tag: tutorial

  • A Journey Into Journey’s Sand Shader

    A Journey Into Journey’s Sand Shader

    This is the first part of the online series inspired by the sand rendering of Journey. Join me in this journey into the secrets that made Journey’s sand shader so iconic.

  • Sprite Doodle Shader Effect

    Sprite Doodle Shader Effect

    This online course will teach you how to recreate a popular sprite doodle effect using Shaders in Unity. If this is an aesthetic that you want in your game, this tutorial will show you how to achieve it without the need to draw dozens of different images. Such a style has become increasingly popular over…

  • Learning Shaders

    Learning Shaders

    Making games is hard. Engines like Unity and Unreal have massively lowered the barrier to entry into this industry. And now that making games is easier than it has ever been before, developers are facing a new crisis. More and more people are joining this industry every day, making it harder to succeed in such an…

  • GPU Sorting

    GPU Sorting

    You can read the full series here: You can find a link to download the Unity source code at the end of this tutorial.

  • GPU Sorting

    GPU Sorting

    This article introduces the concept of parallel sorting, discussing the theory and implementation of a shader that can sort pixels. You can read the full series here: You can find a link to download the Unity source code at the end of this tutorial.

  • Make Your Own Emoji Portrait

    Make Your Own Emoji Portrait

    Emoji Portraits This form allows to  create your very own emoji portrait from any picture. Use the sliders to customise the size and angle of the emojis. When you’re happy, right click on the image to save it. The rest of this article explains how to replicate this effect using JavaScript. How it’s done… The inspiration from this…

  • How to hack any IR remote controller

    How to hack any IR remote controller

    If you haven’t heard of Air Swimmers before, you probably had a miserable life. Air Swimmers are inflatable foil balloons made in the shape of fish. But what makes them really awesome is the fact that they can be remotely controlled to fly around in a room. One of my friends, Claudio, developed an obsession interest for them;…