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How to Backup Unity Projects
Unity projects need to be backed up. There’s a lot of options and lot’s of questions to ask yourself. The big question is…could you recreate your project from scratch if something happened to it? Does your Design or Build documentation cover off every tweak and setting of all your scenes, objects, and prefabs? What about…
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The Kit
This is the hardware and software that I’m currently using to make games. My main machine is a Venom BlackBox laptop. It’s got an i5 Intel Core and 8 GB of RAM. The OS c:\ drive is flash and the d:\ storage drive is SAS. so the operating system stays fast but it also has…
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Make a Promotional Video for your Mobile Game
One of the best ways to get noticed on the App Store (any one) is to have a video that markets your games best assets. We recently did one for NumBlocks which has, in all honesty, been struggling to make an impact on the Play Store. The game is elegantly simple and looks great. It…
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Do NOT Restart Unity After a Crash!
It all started when my laptop went into sleep mode. I was doing some play testing of my Dog Run game and had to take a work call. I know I know “real” work getting in the way of my real life. Something happened and the laptop stopped responding. Wouldn’t come out of sleep mode…
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Inspiration
I was getting rather upset with myself for not finishing my game yet. I had spent a lot of time learning how to get the animation of the dog into a state that wasn’t completely crap but … that a game does not make. I couldn’t visualize what the game was about anymore and I…
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Animating the Running Dog with Unity and GIMP
I finally got the game I started in November into some semblance of how I wanted it to look. The running dog animation anyway. Still playing with different backgrounds but this one is sure “fun”. It took a long time to get all the dog actions done drawing each one by hand and getting a…
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How To Get Beta Testers
Yay! We Are In Beta! When ZuluOneZero published NumBlocks on the Google Play Store we went through the requisite development phases. The game has been released now – have a play: NumBlocks published on the Google Play Store for Android. Click to Play: Also on the Amazon Play Store for Android and Kindle. Click to…
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New GIMP Speed Drawing Cartoon
I made a new speed drawing for Trixie – check it out These are quick sketches done for our team to use as avatars. I’ve recently done them all using GIMP and uploaded the one of myself here: http://localhost/2017/11/11/new-speed-painting-in-gimp/ I recently started reading a great comic book faces drawing book by artist Christpher Hart called Cartoon…
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The Five Games in Ten Weeks Challenge!
Some months back I went to a local presentation by the Unity champions at The Arcade (a collaborative workspace specifically for game developers and creatives) in Melbourne. It was one of those “learn about others and gain insight into one’s self” moments. One thing I picked up from one of the presenters from Hipster Whale (makers of Crossy…
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New Game! Peace Run
Hi Zulu here – We started work on a new game this week called Peace Run. I wanted to do a continuous runner and really liked the idea of having a line drawing animation that looks like the player character “grows” out of the line. The runners will be animal silhouettes like the dog shown…