With the release of Unity 3.5's Flash export option there are many new opportunities for Unity and Flash developers. Since my career has mainly involved working with both technologies, I wanted to try loading a Unity-exported SWF file into a Flex application to prove the...
Read more about Loading a Unity SWF in Flex →When I started using Unity in 2005 I was very attracted to programming with JavaScript. It had easier syntax and less rules for me to bother with. And Unity's documentation at the time was completely done (I think) with JavaScript examples. It just made sense...
Read more about Why I Don't Use Unity's JavaScript →Hello again folks! Today I'm happy to share with you that I'll be heading off to Unite 11 in a few days to represent Lumos Game Analytics with my good pal Matthew Miner. So if you'd like to meet up at some point, whether it...
Read more about See You at Unite 2011 →Last week the game analytics service I have been helping with, Lumos, won an entrepreneurial competition held by the University of Waterloo (UW). We received a whopping $25 000 from UW's startup incubator called Velocity. Thanks to this funding there will be a lot more...
Read more about Lumos Wins Velocity Venture Fund Competition →For the last half year I've been working with a team on a new service that's launching today called Lumos (www.uselumos.com). Lumos provides game developers with an extremely useful analytics system that is very simple to use. In fact, it's almost entirely automated. At the...
Read more about Lumos - Your Game Analytics Service →This is a bit overdue. I left OverInteractive Media Inc. (OMI), the creators of dimeRocker, at the end of February this year. A decision made because I was ready for something new and wanted to return to my home province of Ontario.
Read more about Farewell dimeRocker →I created a complete play-through video of Hip Ship for those interested in seeing all of the content in its current state. You can view it below.
Read more about More on Hip Ship →This is extremely simple to do but may not be obvious at first. For my purposes I wanted a clickable label that opened my website. To do this you need to create a button and change it's GUIStyle to use your label's GUIStyle. Then use...
Read more about Creating Links in Unity →Today I launched Hip Ship, a game I've been developing over the past few weekends. It's a short but challenging arcade style game where you navigate a spaceship through several mazes. You have to avoid walls and objects while beating each maze in the shortest...
Read more about Hip Ship →One of the easiest and most effective ways for people to hack a game is byte editing. Basically there are tools available that can pin-point variables used in your game and change their values. For example if you have a game that gives the player...
Read more about Securing Your Web Game - Byte Editing →
