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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...

Jonathan Magen
May 18, 20201 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
May 8, 20201 min read
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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......

Jonathan Magen
May 1, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Apr 30, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Apr 27, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Apr 24, 20201 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Apr 20, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Mar 24, 20201 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Mar 21, 20201 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Mar 17, 20201 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Feb 28, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Feb 22, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Feb 20, 20201 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Feb 5, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Feb 5, 20205 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Feb 4, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Jan 9, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Jan 9, 20202 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Nov 26, 20191 min read
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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...

Jonathan Magen
Nov 20, 20192 min read
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