Field notes, tutorials and behind-the-scenes from Da Viking Code studio — web development, video games, real-time 3D and cybersecurity.https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/enhttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/bienvenue-sur-le-blog/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/bienvenue-sur-le-blog/The studio blog is live: field notes, tutorials and behind-the-scenes — across web development, video games, real-time 3D and cybersecurity.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/guide-des-blocs-markdown/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/guide-des-blocs-markdown/Headings, lists, quotes, code… This tutorial shows every Markdown block the blog supports and how each one renders.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/playcanvas-the-hidden-webgl-editor-gem/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/playcanvas-the-hidden-webgl-editor-gem/Good tools for having graphics & dev team working closely together has always been important for providing awesome digital experience! Back then, Macromedia/Adobe Flash was a 2D tool bringing together artists &…Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/vectorized-extruded-and-spatialized-map-data/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/vectorized-extruded-and-spatialized-map-data/Or the GeoJSON, D3.js to Three.js pipeline. It has been a while since our latest Three.js project! We're mostly playing with Unity, but it's always a nice feeling to get back to…Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/efficasthme-asthma-attack-simulator/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/efficasthme-asthma-attack-simulator/During 9 month, we worked with DOWiNO and the Paris Descartes University on a medical serious game. Effic'asthme is available both on the Play store ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.parisdescartes.efficasthme ) and the App store…Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/5-years/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/5-years/Da Viking Code just reached 5 years, what an amazing journey! How better to show this journey than with a new website? Enjoy and happy new year!Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/franc-tamponnage-2018-goes-ar-vr/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/franc-tamponnage-2018-goes-ar-vr/Magna Vox is an association located at Dijon organizing concerts in the Burgundy Franche Comté region. In 2017 we already participate to the Franc Tamponnage's edition, with some applications you can find…Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/smokitten-two-apps-to-help-prevent-and-treat-nicotine-addiction/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/smokitten-two-apps-to-help-prevent-and-treat-nicotine-addiction/App links and official info : DOWiNO's official website for Smokitten Smokitten iOS Android Smokitten Park iOS Android Smokitten and SmokittenPark are two sides of the same coin. A Willingness for the…Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/click-hanger/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/click-hanger/Today we're proud to show our work on the latest game for the Française Des Jeux (France's national lottery game)! Made with Isobar and our friends at James Bang. ▶ Watch the…Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/playing-with-ar-vuforia/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/playing-with-ar-vuforia/Augmented reality is one of the next big thing. It's been present since a while (do you remember all those old cool Flash experiments in the browser?) but nowadays the tech is…Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/franc-tamponnage-and-creative-coding/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/franc-tamponnage-and-creative-coding/During one month, our Bourgogne Franche Comté region was in trouble: the music festival, called Franc Tamponnage, for alternative, electronic and extreme kind was in progress. Our friends at Magna Vox planned…Thu, 16 Nov 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/sponsoring-piky-game-jam/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/sponsoring-piky-game-jam/From October to November, Dijon is the theater of many events related to video games. Welcome to the PIKY project! Through creative workshops, exhibitions, shared playing times, meetings, concerts and a Game…Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/filters-2d-the-rebirth/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/filters-2d-the-rebirth/Filters 2D was a good experiment into shaders land. I joined Da Viking Code in April and one of my main mission was to update this plugin and going deeper in shaders…Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/building-a-3d-furniture-visualiser-with-three-js/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/building-a-3d-furniture-visualiser-with-three-js/Blanc Cambouis is a company selling high end furniture to their customer. In order to let the customer visualize the product they are buying we were asked to create a custom real…Tue, 25 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/haxe-pixijs-and-fullscreen-cross-platform-experiences/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/haxe-pixijs-and-fullscreen-cross-platform-experiences/ADN 250 is a serious game around relationship marketing, like a Tupperware meeting. You must learn about different product by using them, then you can start selling theses products to different people…Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/run-pngquant-via-a-nativeprocess-c-unity-as3air/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/run-pngquant-via-a-nativeprocess-c-unity-as3air/After our Unity runtime SpriteSheets generator, it is a good idea to optimize the generated pngs files. pngquant is a command line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.…Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-generate-spritesheets-at-runtime/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-generate-spritesheets-at-runtime/Unity and plugins provide many great ways to build Sprite Sheets. However they're used directly into Unity Editor or with an external software which is perfect in many case, but none provide…Wed, 18 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-sprite-packing/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-sprite-packing/Best practices with Unity have always been an hidden gem. Most precisely concerning the Resources folder. Hopefully things are changing with Unity's best practices guide! And things are simple concerning the Resources…Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-manage-mailbox/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-manage-mailbox/For a project, unfortunately canceled, we needed to be able to manage a mailbox with Unity. Including IMAP protocol. Unity uses C , so we were pretty confident it wouldn't be an…Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/memovox-air-still-on-top/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/memovox-air-still-on-top/Two years ago, we coded a beautiful app named Geophysic for the famous luxary watches brand Jaeger LeCoultre. Made with the cross platform technology Adobe AIR, and Starling & Feathers, we finished…Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/making-a-unity-game-for-the-htc-vive-and-the-oculus-gear/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/making-a-unity-game-for-the-htc-vive-and-the-oculus-gear/We currently faced the challenge of making a VR game (under NDA, so we can't mention the game or even provide screenshots or code) for the HTC Vive (Steam VR) and the…Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/go-marks-run/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/go-marks-run/Hi folks, we're proud to share with you our latest game that we worked on as developers: Go Mark's Run, for iOS and Android. Change Agency was in charge of producing a…Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/heineken-the-sub-in-webgl/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/heineken-the-sub-in-webgl/After our tech presentation app for Heineken's The Sub® used as part of interactive elements in a popup store in Paris, running on ipad Air 2s, we were asked to build a…Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/attending-reasons-to-in-brighton/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/attending-reasons-to-in-brighton/What an exciting time to be in Brighton those days! With Tamsen, it's the first time we're attending Reasons to previously known as Flash on the Beach ! On the menu: Carlos…Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-auto-set-android-password-in-project/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-auto-set-android-password-in-project/Hey, it's time for an other tip today! There are small details in Unity which can make you crazy: compiling an Android project with the correct certificate request you to provide the…Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-fast-build-platform-switcher-script/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/unity-fast-build-platform-switcher-script/Today a quick tip for a huge trick! Working with Unity is pretty awesome until you have to make a build on an other platform than your current one! Depending your project…Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/a-blind-legend-desktop-standalone-and-steam/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/a-blind-legend-desktop-standalone-and-steam/Hello everyone ! So this blog post will cover what we did to create the desktop version of A Blind Legend and its release to the Steam store. You can access the…Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/zip-zip-avatar-creator-and-character-animation-capture/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/zip-zip-avatar-creator-and-character-animation-capture/"Zipizator" is a mobile app created by Ludo and Hyperfiction we developed to accompany the Zip Zip french animated television series's release on a french channel. It was fully created with Adobe…Wed, 29 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/meet-hutch-the-best-friend-of-starxi/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/meet-hutch-the-best-friend-of-starxi/Hey folks, today I'm glad to introduce you Hutch. This post follows my thoughts from a previous one. I was looking for the next tech for providing mobile, desktop and web games.…Fri, 27 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/retrieving-the-names-of-your-scenes-at-runtime-with-unity/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/retrieving-the-names-of-your-scenes-at-runtime-with-unity/Edit: this script is awesome, and if you combine it with a ScriptableObject you're ready to go! Retrieving the names of your scenes at runtime with Unity is a common problem. The…Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/playing-with-vr-and-unity/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/playing-with-vr-and-unity/Today, Virtual Reality (VR) may be the hottest topic for interactive developers (Augmented Reality will be the next within few years for sure). Many constructors propose their own Head Mounted Device (HMD)…Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/reset-git-repository-to-a-new-commit/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/reset-git-repository-to-a-new-commit/Git is an awesome version control system, popularized by Github. Working on a big project, you might need to add (huge) binaries, or libraries, or even psds, videos... to your repository. We'll…Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/encoding-bitmapdata-using-as3-worker/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/encoding-bitmapdata-using-as3-worker/Though AS3 Worker class is available since a while, its introduction on iOS is recent: less than 6 months. With AS3 workers being available everywhere, it's about time to create small libraries…Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/from-unity-2d-to-unreal-paper-2d/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/from-unity-2d-to-unreal-paper-2d/The Game Developers Conference is coming quickly and we're impatient to hear the announcement from the big guys! Since a while I wanted to give a try to the Unreal Engine. I'd…Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/introducing-unity-2d-filters/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/introducing-unity-2d-filters/You're trying to create fancy effects for your Unity Sprite 2D game but don't know where to start? You heard about shaders but that's some dark magic to you? Why is it…Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/en-route-making-an-old-school-point-n-click-game/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/en-route-making-an-old-school-point-n-click-game/En Route, or on the way in english, is a new game offered by l'Institut pour la Ville en Mouvement (Institute for Moving City) and developed by Dowino. En Route is the…Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/learn-more-and-in-a-fun-way-about-cancer-with-hygee/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/learn-more-and-in-a-fun-way-about-cancer-with-hygee/In 2013, the regional center Hygée dedicated to the information, prevention and education about cancer, opened on the site of the hospital complex of Saint Etienne (in the south west of Lyon).…Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/heinekens-popup-store-the-substore-app/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/heinekens-popup-store-the-substore-app/Update: we made also a WebGL version ! The Sub® is part beer cooler and beer drafter made by Heineken in partnership with Krups. The concept is similar modern coffee machines in…Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/hello-world/https://daviking-blog.pages.dev/en/blog/hello-world/Hello world! It was about time to open Da Viking Code's blog, right? For several years, I blogged on my own. Since Da Viking Code is growing, and to reflect the awesome…Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMT