Comments on: Fridays Are For Fun!

By: FAFF cleanup: Sketch | AngryAnt.com

FAFF cleanup: Sketch | AngryAnt.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:27:32 +0000

[...] some of you might have read, at Unity we have a thing called FAFF – very much the same as Google and other IT businesses are doing. It generally lets you step [...]

By: Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » New Character Animation / 3rd Person Shooter Demo

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:49:38 +0000

[...] is that we’ve been able to improve the demo in the meantime. I’ve been spending some Fridays improving it from a pure tech demo to a small game with actual gameplay. Shoot the hovering orb [...]

By: Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Granny Theft Tofu

Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Granny Theft Tofu — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:09:10 +0000

[...] may have heard about Fun Fridays here at Unity HQ. Those of us who were giving the talks thought it would be a good idea to spend [...]

By: 3M, and Google, and Unity! Oh my! | themadpeacock

3M, and Google, and Unity! Oh my! | themadpeacock — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:25:28 +0000

[...] 3M, and Google, and Unity! Oh my! 3M call it the 15 percent rule, Google call it 20% time and now Unity has adopted what they call FAFF (Fridays Are For Fun). “I think there are a lot of low hanging fruits in Unity where somebody with drive can just do something cool that pushes us forward. Things that are hard to put in words, but just make sense when you see it done. So every Friday, developers can work on something cool, something they have been craving to do for a long time.” Joachim Ante, Unity CTO, via Unity Blog. [...]

By: Ashkan

Ashkan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:42:40 +0000

here is not a good place to ask these kind of questions.
you can ask questions at http://answers.unity3d.com
also you can discoss things in unity forums http://forum.unity3d.com

By: Raymond L.

Raymond L. — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:18 +0000

I have wanted to work on a demo from the minute I got Unity!
!!

I was thinking perhaps a Ragdoll demo, but I don’t know enough about them…
Or maybe a bake texture demo.
Or an obstacle course demo, to show how different kinds of physics fall, but anyone could do that..

By: Ashkan

Ashkan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:42:11 +0000

sorry!! my english is terrible

By: Rune Skovbo Johansen

Rune Skovbo Johansen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:24:10 +0000

Ashkan: Nope, no relation. See the meaning of the term “Girl Friday” here:
http://www.google.dk/search?q=define%3Agirl+friday

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:22:19 +0000

FAFF FTW !

By: Ashkan

Ashkan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:52:19 +0000

nice post Aras!
i read this some months ago in your jobs page.
do you remember the date of first friday that you started this kind of new development?

another fun question: in “people” section Alexandra Mariner marked as girl friday, is this related to this friday developments?

By: sim

sim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:57:47 +0000

GREATE!
Now add on some Freiday a simple lod system for meshes (you know add a component to your game object, add a list with distances and actions like chage to mesh or do not display – takats all)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:41:19 +0000

A very nice idea.
I can’t live without the new snapping anymore.
-snap-