GameJam – Scott Tansom

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 27 January 20264 February 2026
Posted in C#, GameJam, Unity, University

Slime Sluaghter – Game Jam 3

For this project we decided that we would make the game using Unity and C#. We did this for a few reasons: 1. we were making a 2D platformer which Unity is a good game engine for, 2. the other person working on the programming for this project preferred Unity and 3. this gave me

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 13 November 2025
Posted in Blueprints, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

The Bears and The Bees – Dev Diary

For our game we decided to make a game inspired by Doom (1993) in terms of very basic FPS game but instead of a man and demons we had a bear and bees. I was the sole programmer on the team so I worked on both the mechanics and the AIs. For this project I

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 12 October 202512 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #4

Today and yesterday I managed to sort out: Not all of this is coded in C++, due to time I put some of this into Blueprints as I know how they work and can work with them quicker. Almost all of BBB is coded in C++ the only times I used Blueprints were for handling

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 11 October 202511 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #3

Yesterday I sorted out: this was all pretty easy to sort out what slowed everything down was quaternions. When applying and calculating the turn I was working with quaternions which work very differently to how I was expecting them to work. I spent awhile trying to get them to work before figuring out that quaternions

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 9 October 202511 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #2

Today I set up: My main trouble was trying to figure out how to call a subroutine from a different script. All the code I’ve done so far has been on the GameMode but I want to handle the rotation of the reels in the their script. So I needed to figure out how to

By -Scott Tansom
Posted on 8 October 202518 October 2025
Posted in BearBearBear, C++, Dev Diary, GameJam, University, Unreal Engine

BearBearBear Dev Diary – #1

I started working on the programming for BearBearBear (BBB). I’ve decided to use C++ and Unreal Engine for this project as I want to improve my C++. The main challenge I was tackling today was trying to figure out how to get reels in a slot machine to work. My solution was to use a