PHL Collective – How we shipped Clusterpuck99

At this week’s Philly Game Works meetup, local Philly game devs, PHL Collective, spoke about their experiences with writing a local multiplayer game using Unity. Their latest title, Clusterpuck99, is already available on Steam and is headed to Xbox One through the ID@Xbox program later this year. In terms of reaching their niche audience,  Producer…

Indie Dev Podcast – Ep 20, Daniel Parente

I have a podcast about independent game development which I record every few weeks. In this week’s episode, I am joined by Daniel Parente, CEO and Game Director of Hydra Interactive Entertainment, a young indie development studio based out of Madrid, Spain. He’s previously worked on a number of titles, including Alien Spidy, History Legends of…

Video update of my Unity shmup

I’ve been working on a shmup for the last year in my free time. Here’s a video of the most recent update. Still working out some bugs. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to my startup, tech, and game dev newsletter

Unity, Unreal Engine 4, & Cocos2D will now ship with Visual Studio set as the default IDE, free to use

Recently Microsoft announced a new deal with these engine providers: Unity Technologies, Epic Games, and Chukong Technologies. When you go to install these engines now, Visual Studio will be the default IDE selected.The Community Edition is included, which is basically VS 2013 professional. If you are using Unity, we also have the free Visual Studio…

New weekly newsletter is out

This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital. If you find some links that you think would be useful, feel free to share! You can always subscribe (or unsubscribe) by clicking on the MailChimp widget on the right-hand side…

asm.js is headed to the Chakra JavaScript engine for Spartan in Windows 10, and what it means for games

Earlier today, we flipped asm.js to “In Development” at status.modern.ie. Support for asm.js has beenone of the top 10 most-requested items at the IE Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it in December. This is huge. What is asm.js? John Resig talked about it more in depth in his blog, some time ago. Here’s how…

Visual Studio 2015 Preview Tools for Unity is out now

Here’s a link to download it. You’re probably already familiar with Visual Studio tools for Unity (formerly UnityVS), which allows you to debug your Unity sessions while using Visual Studio. The problem up until this point though, was that there wasn’t support for it in the latest version of Visual Studio. Since Microsoft bought the…