How many water molecules are there?
Simon and Neva don’t like going to the beach, which breaks my heart. But on the rare occasions I do manage to talk everyone into a family trip to the … Continue reading How many water molecules are there?
Category: Simon teaching
Entering the Multiplayer Game Dev Zone
My learning to make multiplayer games consists of decreasingly failed attempts which eventually become successful attempts! One more obsession these days is the Paper.io game, a strategic game aiming at … Continue reading Entering the Multiplayer Game Dev Zone
Rubik’s Cube Simulator and More
Cubing craze has reached a whole new level as Simon’s speed cube shop order is stuck at the customs in Brussels and his last old speed cube is broken. What … Continue reading Rubik’s Cube Simulator and More
Visual Perception Hacks
This year has been a year of revelations in terms of how we visually perceive the world and whether those new nuggets of knowledge can be reflected in digital art. … Continue reading Visual Perception Hacks
Making a Game in 45 Minutes. Code Along!
Simon has challenged himself to make a game in 1 hour. That worked. Then he made another game in just 45 minutes. He recorded this latest challenge so you can … Continue reading Making a Game in 45 Minutes. Code Along!
Cube Mission and Crash Test in Unity. PICO-8.
As someone said in the comments on Simon’s YouTube channel, “Damn, Simons got his big game dev pants on now jumping into Unity!! Have fun 😁” Below are just a … Continue reading Cube Mission and Crash Test in Unity. PICO-8.
All 256 Elementary Cellular Automata
Simon has returned to his beloved Cellular Automata theme and created this nice sequence comprising all the 256 elementary rules. You can access his code at https://editor.p5js.org/simontiger/sketches/gECh5tVwa Simon explains: Every … Continue reading All 256 Elementary Cellular Automata
Math Visualization: Factors
Simon is visualizing factors in GeoGebra. This graph visualizes how many factors a number has. If a number is higher on the graph than any number to the left of … Continue reading Math Visualization: Factors
Two more steps forward in Unity land
Simon has been spending most of his time practicing Unity with the wonderful set of game dev tutorials by Sebastian Lague. The short compilation below highlights three initial projects he … Continue reading Two more steps forward in Unity land
First Steps in Unity 🎱
Everyone at our household have always had aversion to violent computer games. When we speak of games, we mainly speak of immersive environments, educational games and, since Simon took his … Continue reading First Steps in Unity 🎱
Simon Shares his Derivatives Tricks: Visualizing Calculus
It never seizes to mesmerize me how Simon sees math. So many times has he solved math problems or proved theorems relying on visual, geometric illustrations instead of bluntly applying … Continue reading Simon Shares his Derivatives Tricks: Visualizing Calculus
Lego Power Experiments
Thanks to the amazing Brick Experiment Channel, Simon has been hooked on experimenting with Lego gears to create a number of crazy aggregates, like a paper ribbler: The biggest project … Continue reading Lego Power Experiments
Geeks out of the box 