The main benefit is that it will be able to automatically scale with resolution so we won't get awkward overlapping. But it also has some nice handling of drag scrolling that was frustrating me for the cards in hand.

Next up will be the most challenging part of the GUI update, handling Tarot Divination layouts. I have some thoughts from looking at some tarot apps and the better scroll handling should allow more flexibility in that regard.

What has been the most interesting tarot deck art you've seen? Let us know in the comments.

Update: I tried to embed the game in this post recently but do to some wordpress issues there were window sizing issues. you can play the game however here.

I additionally have poked around in conditional compiling since our code for saving a divination doesn't work in a web player which is something we want to be able to do. Just in case you're trying to do the same thing this page http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/Platform%20Dependent%20Compilation.html is helpful but not the first thing to come up when I was searching myself.

As far as just deserts is concerned got food implemented and along with that player health. Went ahead and put in the logic for losing the game at 0 health even though nothing can damage you yet. Enemies were supposed to be next up but that didn't get done because of frustrations with a free model I had found that was far too detailed and got imported poorly to unity and had orientation issues(I could not get it's forward aligned properly with the mesh.)

My list of things left for Just Deserts.

Those poor plants in the upper right are almost gone

Got the plants working in a "creep" like fashion now. They cover a radius around where you planted and slowly draw in instead of just having a static plant that vanished after a time. It sounds like a minor difference but the visual impact of seeing the foliage withering away was really satisfying.

Next up is working on Enemies. I found a free scorpion model on Turbo Squid and am going forward with that, any of you know of other places one can find free fauna models?

I was really worried that this project was falling apart before this week but several things have come clicking together.

If you are interested in storytelling and games go check her post out and leave her some answers to her question:

If you could get a literary snob to play just one game, what would you offer them as a gateway drug?

Today I tried changing the colliding volume from a cylinder(what matches the model) to a box. It works now.

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.

Ran into some trouble with trying to animations and Mixamo to work. The player model I'm using gets into a walking pose but won't actually animate walking. I'd like to drill down into it but I've got a day-job I have to get away too.

Before

After

Edge Create Challenge 2012

We came up with a game for their theme of 'edge' that we're tentatively calling Just Deserts. It is about a struggle to preserve an ecosystem on the verge of dying out. We've got a good working prototype with programmer models going on right now.

Beautiful programmer models

Are any of you taking part in the edge competition? Let us know in the comments!

Nerd Fitness, no its not an oxymoron

They are starting up a 6 week challenge that also coincides with the Edge online unity competition. So I will be doing some serious leveling up of my life as I challenge myself mentally and physically over the next few weeks.

I won't bore you with the details here, but if you're interested you can check it out here