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About the author:
Hsin Yi
An aspiring programmer, Hsin Yi has decided to learn coding the hard way by making games. She has recently taken an interest in web programming, so you may catch her slaving away at HTML, CSS and Javascript in her free time too.
All posts by Hsin Yi:
A primer on the vertical-align attribute in CSS
Of all the CSS attributes that are available to web developes, the vertical-align attribute is perhaps the most mystifying. At first glance, the attribute seems like the vertical aligning cousin of the text-align attribute, but when you try and use it to vertically-centre your elements, it doesn’t work!
<div style="height:100px;background-color:#eee;"> <p style="background:#dcc;">Item to be vertically-centred</p> </div>
Item to be vertically-centred
Creating a Farming RPG (like Harvest Moon) in Unity — Part 12: Sleeping and Saving
Writing a Unity Shader script for a glowing material — A deeper look
Subtle background animations always help to set the mood of the game. It might only be something simple as a slowly pulsing glow, but it adds to the ambience of the digital city that Terminus is set in.
This article takes a deeper look into some parts of my animated shader tutorial on Youtube, where I went through the creation of a shader used in one of my team’s recent projects.
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Creating a Farming RPG (like Harvest Moon) in Unity — Part 11: Saving Farmland Data
Ever wanted to create a game like Harvest Moon in Unity? Check out Part 11 of our guide here, where we go through how to save our farmland’s data. You can also find Part 10 of our guide here, where we went through how to set up scene transitions.
A link to a package containing the project files up to Part 10 of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article, exclusive to Patreon supporters only.
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Best practices when uploading images onto WordPress
If you’re managing a WordPress site that you’ve developed yourself, or one that has been created by a developer and handed over to you, this is a handy guide that you should read. It covers how to optimise your images, so that:
- Your site loads as fast as possible, and;
- Your images are optimised for crawling and indexing by search engines like Google
Creating a Farming RPG (like Harvest Moon) in Unity — Part 10: Scene Transitions
Ever wanted to create a game like Harvest Moon in Unity? Check out Part 10 of our guide here, where we go through how to set up scene transitions. You can also find Part 9 of our guide here, where we went through how to improve on our current Inventory system.
A link to a package containing the project files up to Part 10 of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article, exclusive to Patreon supporters only.
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Creating a Farming RPG (like Harvest Moon) in Unity — Part 9: Improving on the Inventory System
Ever wanted to create a game like Harvest Moon in Unity? Check out Part 9 of our guide here, where we go through how to improve on our current Inventory system. You can also find Part 8 of our guide here, where we went through how to make crops that can be harvested multiple times.
A link to a package containing the project files up to Part 9 of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article, exclusive to Patreon supporters only.
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How I fixed my “data truncated for column” warning in MySQL
Recently, while working on a project, I ran into a warning telling me that my “data was truncated for” one of my columns when I was importing a CSV file into one of my SQL tables.
Concerned that I had done something wrong, I Googled for a solution. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any answers there, so I ended up having to find the source of this warning myself.
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