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May 18, 20201 min read

Overheat

This is no joke, I really can't do anything right now, the air conditioner is on and it struggles to keep the temperatures low. I was...

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Jonathan Magen

May 8, 20201 min read

Doggy issues

If the virus and the heat were no enough so my old dog is acting up... waking me up at 3 am of her crying laying on the floor, she...

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Jonathan Magen

May 1, 20202 min read

Sounds good

Update, I'm not sick, but thing here are getting really good and my reserved order is cancelled, in a sense I came here for nothing......

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Jonathan Magen

Apr 30, 20202 min read

SARS CoV2 and me

Just when you thought things can't get any worse... It always happens. So how I deal with it? I was sent back home to be ready to be...

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Jonathan Magen

Apr 27, 20202 min read

It's getting better

So, the infected in Israel are starting to go down, and I mean by healing more than dying which is good! My army call has been downgraded...

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Jonathan Magen

Apr 24, 20201 min read

Why is it so hot here?

Well... summer is here. It's hot, not hellish but hot, I started to sweat again, I guess I got used to the British weather. I did some...

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Jonathan Magen

Apr 20, 20202 min read

MS Teams

So as it seems this pandemic is going to take some time, so coming to university is not going to be an option this year, so we are...

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Jonathan Magen

Mar 24, 20201 min read

New Reality

So, I am home now, and need to wait for 14 days before I can go out and see some sunlight. My PC is working though suffers from cooling...

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Jonathan Magen

Mar 21, 20201 min read

Well this is not good...

I just got called to pack myself and head home. I got an emergency call to report back to Israel and be ready for Reserves service under...

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Jonathan Magen

Mar 17, 20201 min read

Give up but not down

We had a mid unit review today, and though the review I was told to make a choice with regard to the prototype I make for the New Blood...

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Jonathan Magen

Feb 28, 20202 min read

Ubisoft ideas

We just had a lecture by 2 NUA grads that are now working at Ubisoft Reflection studio, the "beginners" tier studio. Though beginner or...

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Jonathan Magen

Feb 22, 20202 min read

Hard cold truth

Richard Hawkins, an indie dev that created some cool games, today we had a session with him at the lab, a very cool guy with lots of...

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Jonathan Magen

Feb 20, 20201 min read

Demo Level creation

Hello, Currently i'm working on a game idea I pitched. In brief: It's a 3D side scroll game. You play as a dead person who try to reach...

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Jonathan Magen

Feb 5, 20202 min read

Save, Load, Destroy, Rollback, Restart

So, imagine this, you code a game and made all the assets you need. Test it a few time on the PC and it works, then, you build it up fro...

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Jonathan Magen

Feb 5, 20205 min read

Global Game Jam

Global Game Jam 2020 I admit at first I did not want to go... I can't really tell why, probably because I was a bit unsure about my...

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Jonathan Magen

Feb 4, 20202 min read

Future project plan

The last run is now up! We need to think a make a 2 slides presentation on what we plan to do for the end of the year which is also the...

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Jonathan Magen

Jan 9, 20202 min read

Quixel - Better understanding

Today, in a great delay, I got Quixel and try some of the Epic-Quixel megascans mixing features. As compared to Substance painter, it is...

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Jonathan Magen

Jan 9, 20202 min read

Game idea

I got tasked on creating a game for a competition. For D&AD, for a new game to create player to make stories together. As a reference we...

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Jonathan Magen

Nov 26, 20191 min read

Maya recap

This week session was all about Maya and some recap on stuff we learned on our first year. As much as Maya is a great tool for 3D it is...

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Jonathan Magen

Nov 20, 20192 min read

Critical writing

Writing an Industry report is not easy. It hard NOT to use "I", "Me", "We" in other words, to try and stay as objective and clean as you...

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