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Sarah Kagda
Local Singaporean gamer and aspiring game developer. Can often be found sleeping, but always meets deadlines.
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Creating an Underwater Survival Game (like Subnautica) Part 1 — Movement and Player Stats System
Ever wanted to create a game like Subnautica in Unity? Check out Part 1 of our guide here, where we go through how to set up a player controller and some player stats.
A link to a package containing the project files of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article, exclusive to Patreon subscribers only.
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Creating a Farming RPG (like Harvest Moon) in Unity — Part 16: NPC Gifts and Displaying Relationship Information
How to set up a local web domain (i.e. VirtualHost) on WampServer
When working on a website, it is not uncommon for developers to locally host websites on their own computers first, as it is often a good idea to run and test your website before you publish it online, so that you avoid having your live website run into errors and bugs.
If you are a Windows user, one of the several local web hosting softwares you have available to you is WampServer, which normally runs on the localhost URL when it is started up.
Fun fact: Wamp stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. It is a play on the term LAMP (where L stands for Linux, and the rest of the letters mean the same as those in Wamp), as almost all web servers in the early days of the web ran on such a set-up. Today, LAMP stacks are still widely used to host many websites.
While running on localhost gives us the benefit of using root-relative URL paths, it still has a distinct drawback — it is a hassle to run multiple websites off the localhost URL, as it will still cause the aforementioned root-relative URL paths to break.
Fortunately for us, it is possible to set up what I call “local domains” on WampServer, so that you can use URLs outside of localhost to access your websites on WampServer.
