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In case you still have some people around you that make a fuss about the bad influence of "killer games" (as they are called in the German speaking world), consider this (as written in a beautiful essay on game architecture that is totally worth your time to read, but I digress):

Professional Counter-Strike players […] have been known to turn off the graphics entirely because it is “distracting,” leaving only the most minimal in-game representation of walls and floors. In their mind, the surface textures on a game level might be likened to a tennis court with a neon strobe-light floor […]. That narrative skin doesn’t matter because that’s not how the residents of...

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Since I'm currently cleaning up my code to hand it in with my project, I figured I could write some of the stuff down I learned during my work on our game.

All of it applies, of course, to...

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The code for this project has seen extensive changes and has since been migrated to GitHub. Read more about it...

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GUIs are not exactly easy to program in Unity 3D, since there is only one method available (OnGUI()) that obviously has to take up everything.

This becomes a problem as soon...

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<@gongoputch> so my 12 year old has been BEGGING me for a minecraft server. I told him 'OK', he said YEA!', I say 'but you have to install the OS (FreeBSD), configure it, set up a jail and generally learn enough to admin it.
<@gongoputch> he hates me now
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This just isn't fair. Wall Street bankers are making less today than they were in 2007!

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When there is actually something happening it the Swiss games' scene, it should be noted. Even more so when the game is

  • available for free
  • based on a clever idea
  • and released without much fanfare.

Well, here comes the fanfare.

Roman Schmid (likely known to you as @bummzack on Twitter) created a Tetris clone for two, playable on your iPad, named ...

Ein halbes Jahr nach der Bachelor-Ausstellung gibt es nun meine Bachelor-Arbeit auch als Download zum Testen.

Technisch entspricht das Spiel ungefähr dem Stand vom Juni – es hat also noch einige Bugs, die bis jetzt nicht ausgemerzt worden sind. Zudem sollte man die momentane Version vor allem als Tech-Demo ansehen: viele der gewünschten Funktionen sind vorhanden, aber natürlich müsste man noch einiges mehr an Inhalt einbauen.

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Half a year after my bachelor's thesis game was presented at the bachelor's exhibition, it is now available as a download on this website.

The version is still largely the one that could be seen at the exhibition, with an additional, though very rough, English translation added.

Still, there are some bugs around. It might be best to understand the current state of the game as a tech demo: Most of the functionality is here, but it still lacks content and proper balancing. Play...

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This is the personal website of Kaspar Manz – a place of many things; ideas, driftwood, images, past memories.

Kaspar Manz himself is a young game design student currently at the Zurich University of Arts, where he has the possibility to combine all his interests and talents into one juicy package.

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