Here’s my second addition to the Unity Asset Store:

Pixel-Perfect Dynamic Text for Unity

Here’s a “TL;DR” description of what’s it all about:
Pixel-perfect Dynamic Fonts for Unity! Dynamic Text is a component for displaying pixel-perfect camera-facing text. Size & position are defined in world units. Sharp like built-in GUIText, but part of the scene like TextMesh.

The Pixel-Perfect Dynamic Text page linked above has lots more info which I’m not going to repeat all here. But, shortly said, the page describes some common issues when working with text, and how the Pixel-Perfect Dynamic Text asset helps to solve them. There’s also a long list of features to convince you why it’s good. However, also the few trade-offs and caveats are listed. And, there’s a bunch of questions and answers listed and the version history.

But, don’t forget to check out the interactive demo (Unity Webplayer plugin needed), or a YouTube video of the demo. If you run the web player demo, remember to try changing the size of that browser window, so you see how the Pixel-Perfect Dynamic Text adapts to the new resolution.

There’s also a “Lorem Ipsum”-demo version, which lets you try the asset freely inside Unity. But it generates the text mesh using characters from the well known text instead of your string.

Here are also some other assets to check out:

• Internet Reachability Verifier
• Google Universal Analytics for Unity
• Klattersynth TTS NEW!

Aalto Media Factory and Media Lab Helsinki have an open and free lecture series about game industry this fall and next spring – Games Now!

Yesterday the topic was “What Is This Indie Anyhow?“, with a panel discussion by Tero Virtala from RedLynx, Johannes Vuorinen from Frogmind and Jetro Lauha from Strobotnik (that’s me), moderated by Jaakko Kemppainen from Triple Sec Entertainment.

Each of us did a short presentation before the panel. My presentation contained some personal history of my work with games, as well as a few opinions what does it mean to be an “indie” game developer (and well, that you really aren’t independent of everything).

You can check a video of the panel from the Games Now! -site.

Lot of the content in my presentation was in spoken form with slides having pictures and not that many words, but in case somebody is still missing the slides, here’s links to them.

PDF slides (15 MB)
Executable Slides (Windows, 13 MB)
Executable Slides (Mac OS X, 27 MB; build removed)

Again I built my slides using Unity. If you run an executable version and press ‘P‘ key in the black “2013” slide, you can view further versions of the graphical plant like growing thing. It’s a tech teaser about what I’ve been working with lately, trying to grow it into a bit fuller concept of a product.

Apps4Finland 2013 competition had its ending event last Tuesday (Dec 3, 2013). Part of the program was a seminar about how opening data leads to changes in approaches (Tiedon avaamisesta toimintatapojen muutokseen). I presented the keynote for the seminar with topic “Demoskenen rooli pelialan esiinmarssissa” (role of demoscene in emergence of game industry in Finland).

While most of the content was in the speech, here’s links to the supporting slides in case somebody wants them. Again, I built my slides using Unity.

PDF slides (4.5 MB)
Executable Slides (Windows, 86 MB)
Executable Slides (Mac OS X, 100 MB; build removed)

Slides contain a video (click to play) from tiny 4 kilobyte demo called Dream Creditor, created by me and Jere Sanisalo. You can check the video with audio from YouTube. Also the final slide has a 3D model from Grandma by Rustbloom.

Update: Apps4Finland posted StadiTV’s video recording of the seminar to YouTube.

Although my last post was already about Assembly 2013 event, I didn’t mention yet that we also participated in the game development compo.

Our game Jink is made for the Oculus Rift, and can’t even be played without having one. Or, more exactly the Development Kit. Despite of this limitation, the game got 3rd place in the event. Starting at the same time, the game also took part in the VR Jam organized by Oculus and IndieCade.

Download the game from its own page, or go check a YouTube video where you can see me playing the game.

Update Oct 2013:
Jink is now taking part in the IGF (Independent Games Festival).