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Ty Audronis
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Ty Audronis

Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.
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Keeping things organized


The most important thing with developing a game is keeping track of your resources. Whether it's in Buildbox (by taking the time to properly name everything) or in your directory structures for assets and naming conventions for those assets, by keeping things organized as you go, you'll greatly minimize your frustration later.

Remember, you may want to update your game later, fix problems, or even make a sequel. Several months or years later, you won't remember that a button was placed in a character folder, or that an asset that should have been named boulder.png was named untitled_object_005 in Buildbox. Naming and organization are key.

Naming conventions

Since we're developing (potentially) for multiple platforms, we have to keep in mind that different platforms handle some file and folder names differently. So, we're going to go old-school with naming conventions. This means we'll be using hump-back notation with no spaces, and we're going to pad any numbers to...

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Published in: Sep 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786460301

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Ty Audronis

Ty Audronis has been called a "technology-age renaissance man." Hes a professional drone pilot, post-production specialist in the entertainment and media industries, a highly experienced interactive game developer, and an accomplished digital artist. Hes worked for companies ranging from frog Design to California Academy of Sciences in roles where hes worn many hats. Tys been programming software and games since 1981 (when he was 8 years old) professionally. He majored in Computer Generated Animation and Visual Effects in college (where he won Best Animation for the entire CSU system a Rosebud Award). His music and sound design have been the soundtrack on several major productions; he has also served as a visual effects supervisor on feature films and was the supervising editor and animator for award-winning science visualizations. He has been building drones since the days when sensors and components had to be torn out of cell phones and game controllers. Ty is also a mentor, having taught many interns his skills, and speaks regularly at venues including Interdrone. He also serves on the advisory board for the Society of Aerial Cinematographers and for Genarts (now Boris) Sapphire.
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