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Jonathan Linowes
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Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.
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Juicing the scene

Having the basic mechanics implemented, we can now juice it! First, we'll replace our red bouncy balls with hot fireballs. Then, we'll replace our ground plane and wall with a more graphic 3D artwork skull platform, and we can turn this into a rhythm beat game by synchronizing the balls to music!

The term juice it for game design was popularized by Jonasson and Purho in their presentation talk from 2012, Juice it or lose it—a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg). A juicy game feels alive and responds to everything you do, with tons of cascading action and response for minimal user input.

Great balls of fire

Let's change the balls from being red bouncy balls to balls of fire! Instead of mesh geometry, we will use a Particle Systemto render it. There are a lot of ways to get particle effects into your Unity project. If you recall, inChapter 4,UsingGaze-Based Control...

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Jonathan Linowes

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.
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