The previous blog post was aimed at managers and executives who need to handle working with remote teams, but this post is all about how to be productive when working from home. On thing to note is that there’s no one solution here. Some things will work for some people

Many companies have been forced to switch employees to working from home or are strongly considering it during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Here at Tricky Fast, we’ve always been a virtual company with all employees working from home. As the president, I’ve been managing remote teams for the better part

We’re deep into development on Treat Fighter, and it has become pretty clear that this is an amazing technology. There are also a lot of misconceptions that we’ve heard talking to gamers and other developers. I’d like to take a moment to write about our experiences so far, correct some

Players collect candy, create, trade, and manage their Roster of Fighters all on the blockchain LOS ANGELES – March 28, 2018 – PRLog — Tricky Fast Studios, a North American video game development company and Chimaera, a leading blockchain technology firm based in Malta, today announced they have partnered to

If you’re in or around Boston next week, come check out our own Mike Handverger’s presentation at this month’s Boston Post Mortem meetup. Ever thought about running a contract game studio? Tricky Fast Studios has been in that business for 6 years, and Mike Handverger will talk about what he’s

We recently released CAT Game Builder, our framework for quickly building games in Unity, and several people have already asked about integrating new or existing systems into CAT. CAT was designed to be highly extensible, so let’s go through an example of doing just that, based on the previous post

If you plan to have more than one enemy attacking the player in a 3d (or top down 2d) game, you’re going to need an attack slot system. In our last tech article, we went over building a waypoint pathing system. Let’s continue with the AI tutorials and build an

This is the first in our new series of advanced technical articles. In this series, we’ll be talking about building various advanced game systems. Today’s post is about path finding. Unity includes a 3D Navmesh based path finding system, but in some cases, that may be overkill or you might

If you haven’t already, please check out part one in this series. This time I’d like to talk about the problems that outsourcing can solve. People who have been in the game industry a while usually have a few common complaints. One of the missions of Tricky Fast is to

Having run a successful game development outsourcing firm for some time now, I’ve noticed that there’s a significant stigma associated with outsourcing work. To be fair, many people get burned by outsourcing to the lowest bidder, which is often offshore developers. However, that’s a post for another day. Let’s just