Regardless of the result, it’s still nice to come away with the foundation of something bigger and better, isn’t it?
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Of course, I’d be more than happy to help! If you’d like to chat on Skype sometime, send over your details to cat@catburton.co.uk and we can set something up. Glad to hear you’ve picked Unity for the course – it’s a great tool for games dev!

Cheers,
Cat

I teach at a girls boarding school in southern New Zealand and next year I will be running a full year of programming and computer science with year 13 (7th Form) girls and students from other schools via the New Zealand Virtual Learning Network. The technology curicculum down here is really cool, and they won’t just be learning programming, but all about development and planning and conceptualisation (they need to research and develop a brief, conceptualise their outcome and model it, and then plan and create it, followed by evaluation by peers and stakeholders). I subbed you on twitter because I think you do something similar when developing your games and apps, and I thought it would be good to follow any posts you have regarding development and what’s happening. I was hoping you might be able to do a short skype session or record a video or something, sometime in 2012, explaining what it is you do, the process you go through when developing a piece of software, or something like that?

Let me know

Cheers
Luke

P.S. Oh yeah, the other reason I subbed you is because I’m also using Unity 3 and Javascript (mainly Js because a lot of these students will not have programmed before and it’s a bit less strict on declarations and stuff) in the course next year. I think it’s great for education because of the immediate feedback to the learner (just hit play – no compiling process).

After some suggestions from people I’m going to give Bazaar a go. This will be for Unity projects and anything else I decide to pull out of my sleeve.

I think the key issue is not the details of Unity’s ability to integrate with a given vcs tool, but more the basic abstraction of a ‘scene’ that Unity has at its core. It’s very easy to make large parts of the high-level control logic in your game stuff that’s just shoved in to the single monolithic binary blob of a scene file, leaving you in a state where scaling up your team size becomes impossible as everyone ends up fighting over that binary.

Merge-able scenes and prefabs may mitigate this problem to some extent but, like you say, this sounds like it has potential to turn development in to a continual merge nightmare. I think there’s more promise in finding ways to work in a more modular way with these abstractions, so that as little high-level logic lives in these binaries as possible.

As an aside, I thought it was interesting that you didn’t mention the main reason we rejected the Asset Server at an early stage – no exclusive checkout of binary files.

addRequestHandler(“example_request”, SimpleRequestHandler.class);
addEventHandler(SFSEventType.USER_JOIN_ROOM, UserJoinedRoomHandler.class);

1) As you know, in AS3-like, the second parameter is a method not a Class, then how you can get reference in class “SimpleRequestHandler” to the parent class (SimpleSmarFoxServerJavaExtension) (please don’t tell me with the “parent” word, but if is this, is unique way?).
2) Is posible work in AS3-like “classic model” to the extension wrote in java?