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Livestream Archive: Akiba’s Trip – PS4, First Playthrough, Part 1
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Author: Coburn
An australian who is one of the founders and lead programmers of Oiran Studio, a game development studio. I have a passion for anime, gaming and other subjects. I run this journal as a personal log of sorts, as well as expressing my thoughts and sharing knowledge.
Unity Editor 2021.3 LTS on Linux: Works, but…
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I’ll keep this short, but while Unity Editor 2021.3 LTS works on Linux-based system, it has a flaw that hurt my eyeballs while using it. Granted, I haven’t spent a lot of time using Unity on Linux (apart from using the compiled Unity Players on Linux), here’s my experience so far… The Good For starters,…
Fixing Unity Hub on Linux: Project list forgets projects, settings don’t save…
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I am slowly migrating my game development stack to a fresh installation of Arch Linux, however I ran into a interesting issue where Unity Hub would forget projects that I had added manually into the project list. The log files also indicated something in the filesystem was fucked up, so I set out to investigate….
The MegaBuy Experience: Wait, what?
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A little context before we begin the story… MegaBuy is a technology online retailer that also has some storefronts here in Queensland. They have quite a lot of refurbished and brand-new devices, parts and consumables. I have been using them for some time and this latest experience comes from sourcing an 10th Generation Intel “Frost…
Game Dev Update: Kinematic Characters, Client State Prediction and Mirage Networking
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Time for a development update on my First-Person Shooter game project, which has been a on and off development hobby project for years. This time, I’ve been working with the Mirage Networking stack, and the Client State Prediction module that is a work in progress. As one can see from the video above, there are…
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Sega Saturn): Half Frozen attack game crash
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Interesting glitch found in the Sega Saturn version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Actual game crash starts at 1:05 into the video.
Thoughts on Call of Duty Vanguard (PS4)
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Going back a week or two, I finished Call of Duty Vanguard on my PlayStation 4. It was a fairly alright game although while the developers claimed that “it was a return to the Call of Duty roots”, I pressed X to doubt on that. I don’t have the time as I’m just finishing my…
Looks like I stirred the beehive…
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Just a more personal side note but ever since I commented about the Unity Technologies IronSource acquisition I’ve been under an influx of Russian comment spambots. Now, I’m not suggesting anything, but what a coincidence…
About that Unity and their ironSource acquisition…
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Unity acquired IronSource. Great. Yeah, I’m not sure about this one to be honest. A few of my contacts commented about this merger and I felt like I should share my two cents. Mobilegamer.biz has a great summary article on the Unity and IronSource subject located here. The Unity forum has a excellent post that…
The Linux Journey So Far…
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If you’ve seen my twitter from time to time or been lurking in my Discord or Twitch streams you’ll know that I am a big enthusiast of using Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) magic to run a Windows virtual machine on top of my distro of choice, Arch Linux. In doing so, this allows me…