PL Young

Dungeon Editor

Leslie Young (xyber) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:15:39 +0000

I’ve released a new package on the Unity3d Asset Store, called Dungeon Editor.

The Dungeon Editor is a tile based editor which allows easy placement of dungeon pieces like floors, walls, doors and various pieces of décor.

The editor could be used to streamline development or by your players to create maps. There is a sample of saving and loading to/from PlayerPrefs. Maps are saved by simple string encoding. All code is done in C#

Video of the editor used in a game
Video of the editor in action
More info

Battlemass Free to Play

Leslie Young (xyber) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:10:44 +0000

Just a quick update to let you all know that Battlemass is now free to play. You can grab it from my main site, enjoy

Connect PHP

Leslie Young (xyber) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:05:58 +0000

I’ve released a new package to the Unity Asset Store.
The “Connect PHP” package shows you how to connect a game to a PHP based server. The server scripts for this package were written in PHP and use Yii, a high-performance PHP framework. The client side scripts are all done in C#. You need to know how to use the Yii framework in order to make proper use of this package.

Features:
* Account system, register, login
* Saving and loading settings to/from server
* Public & private Chat channels
* Friends list. add and remove
* Show news and adverts in game

Tile Based Map and Nav

Leslie Young (xyber) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:04:25 +0000

I’ve reelased my 3rd Unity3d Asset Store package, Tile Based Map and Nav.

This package will get you started with games that needs a tile based system, either where you would see the tiles or only a tile-based navmesh is needed.

The code from this package is featured in the game, Battlemass, and you can view a video of it here.

Features:
* Hex tiles
* Base class for Units
* Unit selection
* Target tile selection
* Selection indicators
* Highlighting tiles
* Unit movement over tile based map
* Land and air/flying units support
* Support for Walls (block both land and air unit movement)
* Sample editor script that helps with map creation
* Camera move and rotate/tilt controllers

Unity3d content packs

Leslie Young (xyber) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:50:49 +0000

I’ve released two content packs on the Unity3d Asset Store.

Connect Google App Engine

Connect your game to Google App Engine (GAE) based server (Python). GAE enables you to build and host web apps on the same systems that power Google apps. Depending on the load you could host the server side for free or very low cost

Features:
* Account system, register, login, saving settings on server
* Public & private Chat channels
* Friends list. add and remove
* Show news and adverts in game. Manage via browser
* Payment system. PayPal IPN. Game Keys to unlock

Little War Machines

This art package includes 9 optimised models.
* 2 buildings
* 2 flying vehicles (carrier and copter)
* 4 land combat units
* and an engineer unit

The models incl. idle, movement and attack animations where needed; and it is as simple as creating a new material with a specific tint to create units of different colours.

Development of Battlemass

Leslie Young (xyber) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:03:13 +0000

I thought it would be interesting looking back at the past 5 months of Battlemass’ development and write a little something about the development side.

The client side of Battlemass was developed with the Unity3d game engine. The server side is running on Google’s infrastructure via the Google App Engine (GAE) and written in Python. I’ve released a package on the Unity Asset Store which will show you how to communicate with a GAE based server in your own Unity3d game.

Development started near the end of June 2011 and I quickly had a PHP based server up and a lobby system ready.

Around the middle of July 2011 I started looking into cloud hosting solutions and discovered the Google App Engine. I figured that if the game does well I would not have to struggle with scaling and it would be an opportunity to create code that could be used in future project. Only problem was that I had to choose between Java, Python and Go. Since I only had a little experience with Java and nothing when it comes to Java based webapps, and because I thought it might be easier porting from PHP to Python than Java, I decided to learn Python and scrap what I had in PHP and rewrite the server for GAE.
Visit the Battlemass site to read more and view lotsa screenshots …

New home site

Leslie Young (xyber) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:12:56 +0000

I’ve created a new home site from where I link to my blog, forum, etc.
The forum will be sued to support the apps and games I’ve created.

Check it out at http://plyoung.com

Battlemass available

Leslie Young (xyber) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:06:56 +0000

Battlemass is now available for purchase. You can also grab a demo which will limit you to creating a match with the free maps only and you have acccess to the free units only; however, you may join matches that uses non-free maps.

Here’s a gameplay vid of the game.

Battlemass public test phase

Leslie Young (xyber) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:07:08 +0000

I’ve decided to start the early public test phase of my game, Battlemass. Not all the art is done yet, most notably the units/vehicles are not the final ones and there will be a lot of décor and various obstacles on the maps.

With this test I would like to see how the server handles the various player loads.

You will see the latest version for download on the right-hand sidebar of the official site. Please have a look at the online tutorial page to learn how the game works since there is no in-game tutorial yet.

Battlemass progress

Leslie Young (xyber) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:10:48 +0000

Been a while since I posted anything new, but that is because I have been very hard at work on Battlemass. We hope to start a public free-to-play beta of the game in October. I am also working on a website for the game which will be available under http://www.battlemass.com/.

Here’s are some screenshots from the game.
This is a far view of a map to give you an idea of the style we are going with for this game. The map looks quite empty because the artist is still working on décor objects, obstacles and other random stuff that will make the map more interesting. I will post more screenshots once the units are done and in-game.

This is a shot of the lobby, showing the improvements we made to the GUI art.