Author Archives: lion

Gameloft Vietnam’s First Game Jam A Success

Posted on October 1, 2011 by lion

My friend Stefan and I organized the first Gameloft game jam in Vietnam. It was held two weeks ago, we had 8 teams competing, most of them using Unity for the first time. The results were fantastic. Stefan and I … Continue reading →

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Goodbye San Francisco, Part 2

Posted on May 29, 2011 by lion

I’ve been in Saigon for nearly a month now, just moved into our new apartment Friday night. This is the first chance that I’ve had to sit down and follow up on my previous post: Goodbye San Francisco, Chao Saigon. … Continue reading →

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Scranton Excalibur Interview

Posted on April 27, 2011 by lion

I was contacted by a student journalist from Scranton High School asking if I could answer some questions about working as a game designer: 1. How did you first became interested in video games? I don’t know how I first … Continue reading →

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Goodbye San Francisco, Chao Saigon

Posted on April 2, 2011 by lion

I moved to San Francisco in 2003 to join the videogame industry. I’ve worked with a bunch of talented folks while here and the list of people whom I’m indebted to for sharing their knowledge and friendship with me is … Continue reading →

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Using Unity Asset Server on Amazon’s EC2

Posted on March 23, 2011 by lion

I recently set up Unity Asset Server (a version control repository server with a client built into Unity Pro) on Amazon’s EC2 — ”a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.” There were a few gotcha’s along the … Continue reading →

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I just received an email via the Apple Developer program promoting app development on their upcoming OS X Lion. I suppose it was inevitable that they’d eventually have a release named Lion, but I can’t help feeling that this release was made especially for … Continue reading →

Posted on February 25, 2011 by lion | Leave a comment

3D Modeling and Animation on OS X

Posted on October 20, 2010 by lion

I have the hankering to prototype some game ideas in Unity. Rather than just use cubes I want to have the ability to create some proxy art that is a bit more representative. My historic 3D app of choice is … Continue reading →

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Develop: Unity Focus

Posted on September 23, 2010 by lion

Over the past year I wrote a monthly column for Develop, a game industry rag out of the UK. The column was entitled Unity Focus and it took a different format each month, depending on what I though was interesting … Continue reading →

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Me Demoing Unity on a Tegra 2 Tablet at Google I|O

Posted on May 19, 2010 by lion
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Life in Transition

Posted on August 2, 2009 by lion

So much has happened since my last blog post! Life has been keeping me busy and I suppose that’s why it has nearly been six months since my last update. The biggest game changer was becoming a father to a … Continue reading →

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