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oh hey i program and make games and stuff | created A Short Hike | itch: | he/him |

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@adamgryu
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In case you're looking for me off Twitter: 🎮 Itch: 🐘 Mastodon: 🗨️ Cohost: 🎨 Tumblr: 📺 YouTube: 📷 Instagram:
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🐦 🥾🥾 🌲🌲🌲 A Short Hike 🌲🌲🌲 is OUT NOW on PC, Mac, and Linux!🏞️ Explore the peaceful and quiet island of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you search for... cellphone reception📱 ➡️Steam: ➡️ Itch:
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Here's a little trick I've been using to render the ocean in A Short Hike! The water is just a plane that follows the player around. The texture and vertex animations are all done in world space! #madewithunity #gamedev
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sometimes you just wanna make a game where you get to explore a big mountain and fly around it ok!! #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #madewithunity
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I've been waiting so long to announce this, but YES! A Short Hike is finally out on Switch!!🐦🥾🌲
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i've been working on a peaceful little exploration game about hiking up a mountain and flying down from the top and... it's going to be April's Humble Original!! :O 🎵 turn on the audio to hear music by the amazing @Markymark665 more info here:
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Me: ..........................................................this level needs a waterfall #gamedev #unity3d 👍🏞️👍
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I don't recommend jumping on a canoe 🛶 #gamedev #madewithunity
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A Short Hike comes out tomorrow!!😱 #gamedev #ashorthike
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A Short Hike is coming to @itchio and Steam on ✨JULY 30TH ✨ I've been making some NEW STUFF for an update I'm calling The Extra Mile 🌄 You can wishlist it on Steam: Or Itch: More about The Extra Mile:
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I wanted to add something new for the Switch release... so behold: The Boat! It was fun doing the water effects for this 🚤🌊 #ashorthike
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today's addition: bees 🐝 #gamedev #madewithunity
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don't be afraid to jump! (🏊‍♀️ since you can swim now 🏊‍♂️) #gamedev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
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I've been working on a new side project these last few days, it's been really fun and refreshing to build something new #gamedev #madewithunity
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🦴 Mayor Bones Proudly Presents 🦴 GHOST TOWN'S ~ 9 9 9 t h a n n u a l ~ 🎃🎃 PUMPKIN FESTIVAL 🎃🎃 Carve a pumpkin, and share it at an online festival! Happy Halloween :)
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This area is based on a street I used to live on. I've got a whole bunch of city levels I want to build that are inspired by Toronto, but I've got to focus on other things for now 🌆 #gamedev #madewithunity
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It's back! ✨ 💀 Mayor Bones Proudly Presents 👻 Ghost Town's 1000th Annual 🎃 Pumpkin Festival I added a few new things to find this year, and I'm really excited to share this with everyone!
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My pumpkin carving sim is back online for 2023! Yeah, I'm reusing the trailer from last year, but there is some new stuff to check out! The shared multiplayer server will be online until some time in November! 🎃 Download on Itch:
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Those pizza day feels 🍕🤩 #gamedev #madewithunity
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It may not look like much since yesterday, but I did a bunch of infrastructure for NPCs, UI, and Dialogue. #gamedev
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I haven't posted in a while cuz I've been super busy working on this little project! I should be ready to announce something exciting very soon! :D #gamedev #madewithunity
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🐦 A Short Hike 99 - a multiplayer mod 🐦 this was supposed to be some sort of april fools joke but i don't wanna confuse anyone so I'm just gonna drop some facts FACTS👇 ⭐️ it's a rough mod 🚫 this won't be an official game mode (sorry!) ➡️ test it here
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I built a custom tool for creating rivers and waterfalls in #ashorthike ! It sets up the mesh, UVs, colliders, and you even can paint the vertices to trigger shader effects! It took some time to make but it made adding rivers to my game waaay more fun 🌊🌊🌊 #gamedev #madewithunity
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a cool breeze on a warm day 🏖️ #ashorthike #madewithunity #gamedev
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#DayoftheDevs is just around the corner! I managed to sneak in this extra miniboss before I demo the game this Saturday in San Francisco. Drop by and try it out if you're in the area! #gamedev #unity3d
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Added UI animation for dialogue choices today 🐊 #gamedev
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thank you to everyone who messaged me about #ashorthike ! it's inspired me to make some updates to the game before it comes out fully this summer! ^_^ here's a look at the updated water shader 🌊 #screenshotsaturday
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So, A Short Hike is out on PlayStation and Xbox today! It's been about 2 years since the game came out on PC, and I still can't believe the response it's gotten. I feel so incredibly lucky and grateful I get to keep working on games.
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A Short Hike comes out tomorrow as part of Humble Monthly! As a kid, I always enjoyed exploring forests and climbing up hills just to run down them again... I wanted to see if I could try and capture some of those feelings in my game! #gamedev
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working on a new little thing for #ashorthike 🐟 #gamedev
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if you were wondering which character was my self-insert, it's this guy
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⚠️ ALERT ⚠️ CLAIRE PLUSH!! Thanks for working with us @Fangamer , she turned out so cute! ➡️ Link: #ashorthike
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You'll need a lantern to navigate some of the darker areas ✨🕯️✨ #gamedev #unity3d
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Here's another scene from this weekend's game jam, in motion #gamedev
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You can find and equip items now! Primary weapons may have multiple uses in the overworld ☔️ #gamedev #unity3d
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I'm trying out an attack where she spikes down a feather like a volleyball 🐦🏐 #gamedev #madewithunity
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I’m so happy to see folks enjoying A Short Hike!🌲🐦✨ I really appreciate all your kind words and reviews. ☺️ Reminder that the launch sale will only run until August 6th! 🔗Steam: 🔗Itch:
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Here's the new trailer I put together! Crazy to see it on Nintendo's YouTube channel 😅
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Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside of Hawk Peak Provincial Park in A Short Hike, available now on #NintendoSwitch ! #IndieWorld 🏞️:
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I genuinely don't know what to say - I kind of can't believe it... I'm so so soooo honored to receive these awards, especially among so many games I played and loved this year. Thank you so much to everyone who played my little game 😭
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Working on a cozy cabin so you can get out of the cold ❄️🏔️❄️ #gamedev #unity3d
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here's me smacking into the world bounds when trying to make this GIF earlier #gamedev
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if only hiking up the mountain were as easy as coming down it 🐦 #ashorthike #gamedev #madewithunity
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the ULTIMATE fishing tactic: ...patience?
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I made a little history window for Unity, and it's become a big part of my workflow! I've shared it on GitHub, in case anyone else might find this useful! ➡️
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I'm still prototyping this, so it could all change... but I had fun searching for longer and longer synonyms for "great" yesterday #gamedev #unity3d
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I got transitions set up for scenes this weekend, and also started working on this hangout spot #gamedev
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Mayor Bone's Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2022! 🎃 🌃 Explore and decorate a new area! 👻 Customize your ghost for online play! 🏆 Award badges to pumpkins! 🤔 Guess other players' pumpkins from their hints! It's pay-what-you-want (free even!) 👉
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We had our first snowfall in Toronto last week, and it really made me want to make a snowy scene where the snowflakes pass beneath a street lamp. #gamedev #unity3d
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A Short Hike comes out in Japan today! 😊 #ashorthike
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Indie World(インディーワールド)
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日々の喧騒を忘れて、ハイキングで癒されるのはいかがですか? 自由気ままに、ひと夏のハイキング『A Short Hike』が本日配信です。
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So excited to finally announce this! It's incredible to me that I'll get to hold a boxed copy of my game. For those interested, I hope you like it too!
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Ready for a hike? 🎒 Stoked to announce our partnership with @adamgryu to finally bring you 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒌𝒆, a cute open-world adventure - available as a Switch physical for the first time with 6,000 copies! On sale August 25th @ 6pm BST at 🐦
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🏞️ Can't wait for next week! #ashorthike #gamedev #madewithunity
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For those wondering, this will be coming back around October 17th! I've been working on a little update for this year.
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It's back! ✨ 💀 Mayor Bones Proudly Presents 👻 Ghost Town's 1000th Annual 🎃 Pumpkin Festival I added a few new things to find this year, and I'm really excited to share this with everyone!
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makin the fog shader translucent so it picks up the color of the light #madewithunity #gamedev
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Thanks for the wonderful review!! 😊
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Review: A Short Hike - A Landmark Game For All Ages #Reviews #SwitcheShop
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I just released a patch for A Short Hike that adds extensive controller remapping options. This should help you get any controller working well with the game... Including this classic controller! 🎮 More info: #gamedev
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Without public healthcare, I might have never gotten the chance to make A Short Hike - any steps towards privatization suck
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BREAKING: Ontario releases 3-step plan to invest in for-profit care to reduce surgical backlog
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I also make the edges of the mesh less dense than the center - since the player won't be focusing on the edges it's ok to make the water lower quality. #gamedev #madewithunity
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I've been asked about how some of the effects in A Short Hike were achieved, and I thought I'd share some resources in this thread! It is #unitytips day after all :)
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☀️🌤️⛅️🌥️☁️🌥️⛅️🌤️☀️
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she just like me fr fr
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⚠️ ALERT ⚠️ CLAIRE PLUSH!! Thanks for working with us @Fangamer , she turned out so cute! ➡️ Link: #ashorthike
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The pumpkin festival will be coming back this year! I'm just working on a tiny update before it goes live.
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I've been quiet about my project lately, but that's just cause I've been pretty busy! Recently, I fixed up my code to support any number of active partners at once! Although, I'll probably limit it to 2 partners in practice. #gamedev #unity3d
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I can't believe A Short Hike is nominated next to so many amazing games!!! Thanks to everyone who's supported me along the way! :')
@igfnews
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Here are your finalists for the 2020 Independent Games Festival Awards!
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Next Monday, I'll be rehearsing my GDC talk at @GammaSpaceTO ! Since GDC has been postponed, I'm not actually sure when (or if) I'll actually be giving my talk, so I'd like to invite anyone to come by and listen!
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A Short Hike is showing up on the front page of Steam!😱 Hopefully it sticks around for a little while! If you played the game (or got a Steam key from April's Humble Monthly) and liked it, please consider leaving a review! (I've heard it pleases The Algorithm👀)
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Thanks for all the kind and wonderful comments about A Short Hike! I'm so honored to see people recalling it for the end of the year. Thanks so much for playing and sharing my game!! It means so much to me 😭
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Made this little campfire scene today 🌅 #gamedev #unity3d
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I'm trying out inverse kinematics for the first for this project! There have been lots of whacky feet bugs, like this one where they insist on hopping everywhere #gamedev
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hey folks, my pumpkin carving mmo is back online, with a new update! i'm gonna make a new trailer when i'm less tired, but I think it's pretty cool and u should check it out 😶 👉👈
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@SuperRareGames @miskiart @Markymark665 @Lemondaurora One of the things I made for this was the map! I LOVE it when things come with a map, so I had to include one for this. I made it directly in Unity (I don't really know how to use design software😅) and used a custom topological shader to render it!
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Here's some scenery from a level I am working on though!
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Some friends and I made a little game for GBJAM 9! It's about going into a spooky house so we called it Spooky House. #GBJAM
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I've only got a few days to finish this before Halloween but im thinking........ what if i put in realtime multiplayer????? 👻👻👻 > 👻
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For those of you who couldn't make it, my talk will be streaming this Wednesday at 2PM PDT (5 EDT) on the GDC Twitch stream! ⏲️Full Schedule: 📺Twitch:
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Next Monday, I'll be rehearsing my GDC talk at @GammaSpaceTO ! Since GDC has been postponed, I'm not actually sure when (or if) I'll actually be giving my talk, so I'd like to invite anyone to come by and listen!
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I made a little timelapse of me modelling this prop for #ashorthike 🚜 #gamedev
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I released an update for A Short Hike today! It adds a few frequently asked features, including localization support (French and Spanish translations!), autosaving, save slots, and a bunch of bugfixes.
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I've had a few people ask about the effects I used for my paper jam game, so I made this quick GIF to show #gamedev
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A Short Hike is out now for Humble Monthly subscribers! Thanks to everyone who's already played it and for the nice messages 🐦 The game wouldn't have been the same without @Markymark665 's awesome OST (listen to the video below!) 🎵
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Hey Boston! I'll be showing A Short Hike at the ✨ @BostonFIG Indie Games Festival✨ on September 14th. If you're around, stop by my booth and say hi! 🙂 #indiegame
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you know, the boat being a physics object works fine with one player...
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A Short Hike is on sale as a part of the Earth Appreciation Festival! There are plenty of cool indie titles participating, check it out!
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In case anyone missed out on the first round, these #ashorthike pins are back in stock at @Fangamer ! 🐦
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Speed up your #unity3d game with this one weird trick!! (Time.timeScale) #gottagofast #gamedev
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claire stacking is a popular activity
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A quiet drive through the night... #ashorthike #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
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This was a really fun experiment, but I'm planning on taking down the server on Monday. Thanks to everyone who came out to Hawk Peak! ✨⛰️✨
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🐦 A Short Hike 99 - a multiplayer mod 🐦 this was supposed to be some sort of april fools joke but i don't wanna confuse anyone so I'm just gonna drop some facts FACTS👇 ⭐️ it's a rough mod 🚫 this won't be an official game mode (sorry!) ➡️ test it here
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Hey all! I'll be doing an AMA over at @rNintendoSwitch at 3PM EST today! Drop by to ask me about #ashorthike or anything else!🐦 🔗
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Finished #LudumDare40 with @davidczar_ , @emmamochii and @Markymark665 ! We had a pretty good time making this silly grocery store simulator #gamedev 🍅🍅🍅
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I can't believe my tiny game showed up in the Best Indie Game category! Consider casting a vote for A Short Hike!🐦 (although you can't go wrong with any of these games, it's been an amazing year for indie games!)
@GoldenJoysticks
Golden Joysticks
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Voting for the 37th Golden Joystick Awards is open! Cast your vote now -->
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Was trying to take a cool screenshot for my game and get the player's movement JUST RIGHT Ended up feeling like I was playing Pokemon Snap🤔
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Working on a peaceful opening scene for my paper game! #gamedev #madewithunity
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The water turns to a solid foamy colour when it touches the shore. This is done by comparing the distance between the transparent water pixel to the terrain behind it using the depth buffer. I learned how to do this by following this tutorial:
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I started a new game jam project today! Basically just want to make a new #PaperMario ;) #gamedev
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I just released my first horror game! Inspired by #gbjam #gamedev http://t.co/ezSVeIQVxN http://t.co/4p8LnLv8Vi
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You can expose a public AnimationCurve to the editor to define your own Lerp functions. Pretty handy! #unitytips
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Since I released ~Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival~ at the beginning of this month, I've been rewriting the cutting algorithm from scratch to try and make it less error-prone! To help debug it, I rewrote it as a coroutine that can visualize the steps. This helped a lot! 🎃
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