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I'm back! Let's chat!

Hi everyone, I'm finally home and settled from my extended break. I can happily say that the time away was wonderful; filled with some of the best moments and memories that I've had in all of my 30 years. Thank you all for the kindness regarding my wedding and honeymoon! It means a lot.

While away, I was able to finish the script on my next video in the character controller series. I star...

Pausing For September! I'm getting married :)

Hi everyone!

First of all, thank you so much for supporting me and the channel. I absolutely LOVE getting to learn and share with the game dev community, and you all help to justify the wild amounts of time I spend on each video. So thank you!

As a huge life update, I'm getting married in just a few days! My future wife and I will then be going on a honeymoon. I already know that th...

EARLY ACCESS ✨ The Ultimate Guide to Unity's Free Look Camera | 3rd Person Camera

Hi all! I'm excited to be able to share this brand new video with all of you early! Today we break down everything there is to know about Cinemachine's Free Look camera! If you are trying to make a 3rd person camera system, there is a good chance that this component and system can be customized to fit your needs.

Now that this video is complete, the final video ...

COMING SOON: The Ultimate Guide to Unity's Free Look Camera! | Script Available Now

Hi all! Over the last few nights I was able to finish the script for the next video and record the voice over! This weekend I'll put my head back in Unity and create/record/edit the video elements.

Trying to have it all completed for next weekend, and hopefully will be able to share it with you all early.

I'm excited for this one to be finished so we can focus on the follow-up video...

EARLY ACCESS ✨ Camera-Based Movement in Unity 3D Explained

Hey hi hello! I'm super excited to finally share a new video and tutorial! Today we will learn how to move our characters relative to the camera's angle.

Understanding the code that we right is super important! So while we are legitimately looking at about a dozen lines of code and breaking them down one at a time, it's much better than simply copy-pasting code off of stack overflow, the ...

COMING SOON: Camera-Relative Movement in Unity 3D Explained!

Hi all! Thank you for your patience on this next tutorial! Here is the the latest script for the video for anyone who is interested in an early look.

In this video, we are going to break down each line of code that is used for camera-relative movement. That way, we understand the co...

Modularizing releases - Potential changes to content release!

Hello Patrons!

At the current rate at which I produce videos, I've thought it best to rethink the production pipeline of long-form videos like new episodes of the Built-In character controller series. The current way that videos are made on this channel is pretty standard:

1. research
2. script
3. film/record
4. edit
5. release

For long-form videos that end up be...

🗳️ ELECTION | Assets, Character Controller, or Remake?

Hey all 👋  It’s time for the next election to decide what we cover next on iHeartGameDev! This month we have a couple of new and fun options!

1. Asset Tutorial: there are currently three assets that I would love love love to try out and share a tutorial for: “Sha...

EARLY ACCESS ✨ YOU helped make our State Machine BETTER! [Built-In Character Controller #6]

Hello Patrons! I am so excited to share the first ever early access video release on Patreon!

In this video we are going to add a new state to our state machine and fix some minor issues that were pointed out by our amazing community! I hope you enjoy it!

It's awesome to get back to this series and expand on our growing hierarchical state m...

New script available for reading! "YOU made our Hierarchical State Machine BETTER [Built-In Character Controller #6]" Full video coming soon...

Hey all! It's been a minute since we've checked in. I'm happy to return to share the script for the next video! It is now complete and the audio has been recorded. All that's left to be done is the actual recording and editing of the video (which somewhat go hand in hand).

I'm going to be pushing for a release of next Sunday, but if that doesn't end up happening, I'll be sure to upload a ...

🗳️ Election | ALL OF THE OPTIONS

Hey everyone! 👋  After yesterday's EXCITEMENT from the release of the Command Pattern video, let's keep the hype going with a brand new election! The candidates are as follows:

1. Something with Cinemachine
Cinemachine is the best tool I can imagine using for ...

NEW TUTORIAL | How to Program in Unity: Command Pattern Explained

Hi everyone! I'm thrilled to finally share a new tutorial with this amazing community. Today we are tackling another behavioral design pattern: The Command Pattern. 

This video is over a month in the making, so I hope that you find it insightful and helpful on your gamedev journeys!

To access the project files for this video, you can check out this link: 2022-03-06 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

The Command Pattern | Script & Project Files

Hey all! Pleased to share that the next tutorial covering The Command Pattern will go live THIS SUNDAY! As a result of the recent poll asking whether you would be interested in the scripts for my videos, the script will now be shared in addition to the project files/source code! Thank you for the interest as there is quite a bit of thinking and effort to ensur...

February 14th Update: Interested in my written scripts? Also: Command Pattern Script complete!

Hey all!

Happy Valentine's Day! I want to pop in here with some relatively good news: I finished the script for the Command Pattern video. This one took a while for quite a few reasons.

For starters, work has been hammering my free time as of late. I'm learning a lot in the process, but it just hasn't left me with much free time for game dev, unfortunately. And on t...

Jan 31st Update: Next tutorial, February Payment Pause, and my personal thanks!

Hi everyone! It's been a fast two weeks for me since I released the most recent "Goals of 2022" video. I've made progress on the next tutorial, but not as much as I would have hoped. I guess that's what happens when making videos isn't my full-time gig. I'm thinking to myself now that I should probably make "Full Time Game Dev" a goal on this Patreon...

With that being said, the ...

Next Video Topic: The Command Pattern

Hi everyone!

I want to update you all on what has been going on behind the scenes. With the overarching topic of "programming" for the next tutorial, I've been narrowing down what it should be about. Given how much I enjoyed making the State Pattern video, I really want to make this next tutorial about another design pattern and right now I am putting a lot of research into The Co...