August, 2009

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Aug 09

Walking Dead + Frank Darabont = Win!

The Walking DeadAmazing news! IF you’re not already familiar with the comic book The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman, then you should really get involved. An amazing character driven zombie apocalypse / survival story, the books have really covered a lot of ground and in 7 novels have continued to surprise and amaze with incredible writing and consistently awesome black and white artwork.

Now Frank Darabont, director of Green Mile and The Mist (which you may have read me obsessing about on this blog previously) is lined up to direct an AMC Tv series. AMC have some pretty sweet credentials too, having produced the awesome Breaking Bad and Mad Men, sounds very promising indeed!

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Aug 09

Unity Game Development Essentials

So i’ve been working with Unity around 3 years now, and have had a lot of fantastic feedback from the community surrounding the software as a result of my video tutorials (see learnmesilly.com). Now after 6 or so months of work the book i’ve been working on is coming together. In coordination with Packt Publishing, the book is available currently in a pre-release ‘RAW’ form available to buy as an Ebook PDF – bear in mind however that this is a first draft, the finished version is what i’m working on at the moment, and hope to have finished for October release.

Just wanted to say a big thanks to all my friends, the members of the Unity community and those reviewing chapters that have helped and supported me with this and a big shout out to Charles Hinshaw from Unity technologies, who provided the awesome picture to go on the cover of the book. Keep an eye on the link below if you’re interested in the book, and i’ll post on this blog again, along with learnunity3d.com.. and twitter.. and facebook.. no doubt, when its finished and i’m getting suitably drunk.

Grab the Book at Amazon!

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