It's been an interesting few years thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. I've been working from home since the pandemic began in March 2020 for a company (Encircle) who was generally opposed to having employees regularly work from home. Now they have embraced it and significantly...
Read more about Remote Game Jams →For a couple of years now I've been using custom font packages to render generic icons in my Unity games. My most obvious example is Orbert, which has a minimalist design and allowed me to get away with quite a few font icons. It's very...
Read more about Optimizing Games by Using Font Icons →The Update loop is the most commonly used function to implement any kind of game behaviour, according to Unity's documentation. As such it's important to address the performance impact it has on your game since logic in the Update function runs every frame. Update is...
Read more about Avoiding Unity Update Loops →This past weekend I once again collaborated with the talented Brent Mitchell for the 48 hour Global Game Jam. The theme this year was Waves.
Read more about Sine Shooter (Global Game Jam) →I recently participated in the Toronto Global Game Jam. On my team was the talented Brent Mitchell (level design, programming) and Mark Tome (artist). The theme this year was What do we do now?.
Read more about Switchit (Global Game Jam) →This past weekend I participated in the 2014 Global Game Jam at the University of Waterloo. Lumos cofounder Matthew Miner joined my team, along with Ubisoft level designer Brent Mitchell. Together we created the game Bursting With Colour.
Read more about Bursting With Colour (Global Game Jam) →The time and opportunity has come for me to stop working for game studios and begin working full-time with my own company, Rebel Hippo Inc. along with my swanky co-founder Matthew Miner, our company is best known for creating Lumos Game Analytics for the Unity...
Read more about Farewell Ganz →This year I'll be competing against some friends in a new yearlong game competition called Play Fight 2013. The goal of the competition is to see who can make as much money as possible off indie games, while being open about the entire process. So...
Read more about Play Fight 2013 →Last month I released my first mobile game Frocket. It's an arcade style action/puzzle game where the player launches through levels using barrels to find delicious cupcakes. The full version was launched as a $0.99 game on iOS for iPhone and iPad. A couple weeks...
Read more about Introducing Frocket →Today I experimented with Apple's Game Center for the first time and thought I'd share some pointers. I'll assume you are a registered Apple Developer and already understand how to create certificates and provisioning profiles.
Read more about Using Game Center with Unity iOS →
