Why I Created a Scholarship Program: Leveling Up Future Innovators

AmieDD
October 15, 2024

As someone who has always been passionate about video games and programming, I understand the profound impact that education and mentorship can have on aspiring developers and creators. This understanding throughout my time in school and starting my college courses inspired me to launch a scholarship program in 2017, which you can learn more about on my website, Amie DD Scholarship Fund. Let me take you through the reasons behind this initiative and how it aims to support the next generation of women tech wizards.

Scholarship Applications for Girls in STEM for 2023-2024 are OPEN!

AmieDD
April 29, 2023

Apply by June 1, 2023 through the National Videogame Musuem.

Running Linux Game Servers on Kubernetes

AmieDD
March 23, 2022

Game Developer Conference 2022 Attend a demonstration of deploying and operating game servers on Kubernetes. Learn about game server multiplayer architecture and how to use Thundernetes, an open source project from Azure and Xbox, to deploy game servers on Linux Kubernetes clusters and manage and monitor the game server lifecycle.

Women In Gaming Open World Dialogue - Avoiding Burn Out

AmieDD
November 10, 2021

Check out the amazing panel with @amiedoubleD, Tanya Watson and Dr. Sarah Hays where we talk about metal health, setting boundaries, surviving Mariah Carey and avoiding burnout or on the merits of getting a dog!

thundernetes Allows You to Run Your Linux Game Servers on Your Kubernetes Cluster

AmieDD
November 12, 2021

Thundernetes is an preview project from the Azure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers (MPS) team that enables you to run Linux game servers that use the PlayFab Game Server SDK (GSDK) on your Kubernetes cluster. Thundernetes can be useful while developing your game server in the following scenarios:

Nominated for The Game HERs Awards for Best Charitable Drive

AmieDD
September 14, 2021

Beyond excited to be nominated for The Game HERs Awards for Best Charitable Drive for my scholarship program for Girls in STEM through the National Videogame Museum.

Code Your Own LEGO® Microgame using Unity

AmieDD
February 13, 2021

LEGO® Microgame For anyone who’s ever loved building with LEGO® bricks, the LEGO® Microgame is the perfect place to start your Unity journey. Use these Creative Mods to build on the project and create your own custom experience, while learning the basics of Unity. Viewing from the Learn tab in the Unity Hub? Select Download Project > Open Project to automatically open it in Unity. Viewing from the Unity Learn website? Simply go to the Learn tab in the Unity Hub and search for this Microgame.

404 Text Escape Adventure Game

AmieDD
March 4, 2017

//www.amiedd.com //404 Text escape adventure game // Influenced my childhood adventures of being homeschooled and Zork

C# [] Operator - Arrays and indexers

AmieDD
December 30, 2018

C# Square brackets ([]) are used for arrays, indexers, and attributes. They can also be used with pointers. Example code for potion strength.

C# > Greater Than Operators

AmieDD
December 19, 2018

"Greater Than" relationship operator will return true is the first operator is greater than the second, if not it trues false. This apllies to numeric and enumerations types

ADAM: The Mirror shows us all we don't know how to use Unity

AmieDD
October 15, 2017

Oaks Studios debuted their short film ADAM: The Mirror during the opening Keynote at Unity Unite Austin this past week.

My Dragon Pal and Me

AmieDD
August 6, 2017

I shall name you Tad Cooper.

Finding Artist through Unity Connect

AmieDD
September 23, 2017

We used Unity Connect to find an artist and animator when the program was still in Beta.

Oats Studio is Changing Film, Games and Cosplay

AmieDD
October 7, 2017

When a game engine & short film team up with real-time rendering for ADAM: The Mirror, we get some kickass costumes!

Choose and Open Source License

AmieDD
November 10, 2017

When you share your code or 3D Print designs do you have to pick an open source license? Nope!

LEGO, Unity and Arduino, OH MY!

AmieDD
January 31, 2018

Pew! Pew! Pew! If you missed my talk at NDC London 2018 here is what you missed! I connected an Arduino and Unity3D through a serial connection to turn the gears on a LEGO Mindstorms motor fire a LEGO cannon I made!

Unity Playmode Tint

AmieDD
September 23, 2017

Hey did you just make awesome changes to your game objects scene in Unity and realize, oh crap you were in Play mode the entire time and nothing saved?

Making a Video Game Design Document

AmieDD
December 26, 2017

This is my Game Design Document (GDD) Template you can use.

Codemotion Rome 2018

AmieDD
February 5, 2018

I'll be speaking about game development at Codemotion Rome April 13-14, 2018.

Adding Simple Animations in Unity

AmieDD
February 14, 2018

Quick video showing how to add simple adnimations in Unity.