Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Such has been my life these past few months, more work, more family drama and a new project making significant demands on my time. Sadly, my blog has suffered somewhat, however, that will change fairly soon.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the dream of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) experiences has accelerated in recent months/years with the evolution of newer and more modern technologies and techniques. Many companies, Kickstarter’s and freelance coders / architects are steadily bringing about the Reality revolution. Whether we are actually there yet or there is still a way to go before there is full consumer acceptance of VR/AR (like Cars and mobile phones do today) is a point of debate. Anyone however who has tried at least one Demo though will tell you they are very impressed.
I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. As I’m nearing the journey of my marathon book writing spree. I’m taking a little time out to read a few other books on Packt’s library, this time in one of my favourite areas, AI.
It is been a mad year and a half for me, one book out (Mastering Unity 2D Game Development), another book in its final stages, (An almost complete overhaul of book 1 
thanks to gremlins) and a host of other family activities. I have just reached a nice break where I found time for some opensource development and catching up on some overdue reading!
Knowledge is power and with what Syncfusionare doing to educate the masses , then they must be very powerful indeed. Training and educating developers far and wide, growing their own developer army. Or they could just be very nice people 
Unity is by far outstripping all the competition with its multi-platform game framework, especially with their recent win in the Develop awards for best game engine (well done team). So with the influx of new books to aid new developers, things are only going to keep moving and fast.
While I am busy working on my own Unity3D 2D title coming soon to PacktPub, I decided to come up for air to see what other titles are now gracing the shelves, I was pleasantly surprised.
Continuing the book review season, here is the second book I have looked at recently, an interesting twist in the series of game development.
No matter which platform is your primary target platform for your game in development, it is wise to have an appreciation for how platforms operate. So even if Android is not your first deployment it is good to get to know how it works as it will help you architect your game properly.
It seems the strength of Unity holds no bounds of late going from strength to strength, yet for all the books and tutorials I have seen to date, none have gone beyond the editor itself, so it is nice to see a title address a key factor in modern games, networking.
The game development landscape, especially for Indies is certainly changing. With the recent XBOXOne and PS4 console releases show that skills like C++ are still very much in demand, as a fellow Indie this does concern be greatly. I left my C++ skills in the past once MDX and then XNA were born and the thoughts of going back does intimidate me somewhat.
I am being battered and getting knackered with my schedule at the moment, not to mention work decided it is a good month to “ramp up” but I am coping. Still, I found time to have a look at one of PacktPubs newest titles and rather surprisingly it is a video book. So sit back relax, get your favourite 3D glasses on and have a look.