Month: September 2018

  • Using ADB Logcat to Debug Unity Application Start Up Times

    Our game The Dog Run has been in open Beta testing for some time and we are wrapping up new builds after the feedback we received during the process. There is still time if you want to check out the Beta edition of the game on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ZuluOneZero.TheDogRun We used the built in Unity…

  • Unity Editor Tool Tips, Headings and Clamping Ranges

    Hi Xander here… Firstly a reminder that we are Beta Testing The Dog Run. If anyone would like to join please opt in here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ZuluOneZero.TheDogRun (Apologies in advance for the pop up on this site advertising for help! It should only come up once) The Dog Run has just been reviewed by Daikon Media if you…

  • Unity Debugging with ADB for Android

    Hi Zulu here… (First of all … sorry for the cat) Let me say straight off that your first port of call for any Unity debugging should be the Unity Console. Though sometimes you need more low level operating system logging for Android. This is where ADB (in lower case) comes in. On Windows this…

  • Cheating on Friends and Strangers

    Is it wrong to cheat on word games with your friends and strangers? At ZuluOneZero we love games and puzzles. Any sort of game. Any sort of puzzle. But there is a special reserved bike parking spot for the word games winner of the week. It started with the Target puzzle in The Age.  This…

  • Key Quest! Google Play Store Key Signing and the Pain of a Long Slow Death

    Should Google Manage Your Keys for Games built with Unity? We recently had a problem that caused weeks of pain and struggle and it had nothing to do with coding. It was the damn java keystore signing process that we signed up for on the Google Play Store. The basics are that the Google Play…

  • Crushed by Elevator!

    We got some feedback from the Endless Elevator Mechanics demo that we did a few days ago that compared it to the old Taito game Elevator Action (See some classic 1983 Game Play footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=durTn-5IAms). I did love that game. Especially the music which I still find running around in my brain box decades later.…

  • Endless Elevator Mechanics

    Howdy. Xander here… This is a quick demo of the basic play mechanics from our new game in development Endless Elevator.  We got the basic movement working a while ago (see our Smooth Moves post) and now that The Dog Run is in BetaTesting we can spend some more time working on this game. (If…

  • The Dog Run – Game Play Demo

    Hi Harmony here… Today I did some game play testing of the new game we are beta testing right now. If you want to do some beta testing you can opt in here:   https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.ZuluOneZero.TheDogRun Feedback can be posted on the website in the comments or directly by email at zuluonezero.z10@gmail.com