Blogs - Amanda-Lange


Quick Tip - from a Photo to a Game Texture in Five Minutes[MP4] [0:08:25] [2016/03/30]
In this quick video, I go from a photo I took with my phone, to a simple game texture in the Unreal game engine. Useful if you are making an Unreal VR demo - like in this video: Intro to Unreal for VR…


Design Tips for Mobile Games[MP4] [0:10:52] [2016/01/27]
Hi there! Back again for 2016 with a (very condensed) version of a talk I gave at CodeMash. This is a totally platform agnostic talk about some observations I've made in the various mobile game app…


Surface Book Pen Preview at Grace Hopper[MP4] [0:02:21] [2015/10/21]
At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing I got the opportunity to play with the Surface Book! As an artist who likes to do Photoshop, Manga Studio, and ZBrush, I had a lot of questions…


Fast Way to Create a Custom Minecraft Server on Azure[MP4] [0:08:12] [2015/10/16]
This is a quick video about Minecraft! If you saw my video about Virtual Machines - https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Amanda-Lange/Learning-About-Azure-Virtual-Machines You'd see that I mentioned I was…


Learning About Azure Virtual Machines[MP4] [0:07:35] [2015/08/28]
An introduction to Virtual Machines on Azure, as they are right now in Preview Portal. What they are, how to set up, and some ideas for how to use them! For some more detail on another Channel 9…


Kinect 100 - August 2015[MP4] [0:14:24] [2015/08/15]
In this entry I'm going to discuss Kinect and how to get started. There's a ton of resources on Kinect on Channel 9, so you may wonder why I'd do a video like this. Mostly, it's because I run into a…