Maximizing your sound capabilities through FMOD — Unity sound engine offers decent performance for most projects, but it falls short when looking for more advanced audio features. With this project, we aim to mix the power of FMOD Studio with Unity’s physics engine. The shortcomings of Unity’s audio engine This is a project I made some years ago with a colleague of mine…

Unleash the power of physical animations — I’ve always loved how some games use animations that seem to generate naturally depending on the environment. Like how in Uncharted Nathan uses his hands to explore nearby objects when you pass by, or how in GTA you get these amazing reactions to collisions. So, I started investigating procedural animation…

How to generate profit by abusing the player’s psychology — Since I was little, I’ve always loved videogames. I spent many hours of my childhood living the adventures of iconic characters. I traveled with Commander Shepard across many galaxies. I enjoyed the charismatic envisioning of a post-nuclear war civilization with the Fallout franchise. …

Creating experiences to be enjoyable is one thing, but building mechanics that deliberately exploit addictive behavior is another — Well, that’s kind of tricky question. Video games were born to be fun. Their origin lays in the sheer curiosity of the engineers that made them. They asked themselves whether they could make something fun from the boring machines of their time. And yes, they could. But origin means nothing…