July 2015

I just added all the links to the latest build of my first Unity game under the Games section of the website. After doing a basic platforming game tutorial, I got the idea of making the main player a marble. I then got several more ideas for some basic levels I could do with a marble, so I just went with what came to mind. I drew a few sketches for some of the later levels but the rest I pictured in my mind as I was building them.

Over the past week I spent between six to eight hours placing all the platforms for the levels and placing all the tokens around each of the levels. Even though it took a lot of time, I thought that this game was really fun to make and I still think I have enough ideas to make at least twenty more levels but I decided early on that ten was a good stopping point so that I could move on to more tutorials and mess around with some other game genres. Once I learn how to do a few more things with Unity, I think it could be fun to add more levels to this game and release it on mobile platforms in the future possibly, maybe even adding a jump function when the player touches the screen and messing around with using the gyroscope in the phones to move the ball in different directions.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do next in Unity, but I definitely want to mess around more with the scripting and definitely go to Unity 5 at some point in one of the next few projects. I am happy I was able to get this game done in a week. Even though I could probably polish it a little more and add a few things to it, I would rather move forward and learn how to do more stuff in the engine.

Anyway, here are all the links for the game: (As of July 2015)
Page on Hallowgames.com
Online Game Link
Windows Download Link
Mac Download Link*

*I don’t own a Mac so I am not sure if it works, but I rendered it in the engine, and compressed it into a file at that link if you want to give it a shot. I can’t guarantee that link will work, but the online game link should work on Macs if you have the Unity Web Player installed.

I can’t believe that this summer has been going so fast. I swear yesterday I was in May! Anyway, there have been several changes since I last posted in March of last year. I gave up on the Quriocity Games name and I want to focus more on Hallow Games because it is easier to spell and it has my name in it. So I also got a new host, new domains, and changed all the names on the website around April 2015. Today I just took a lot of the blog posts from the original site and added them to here so that I have them if something were to happen to the old website, since I have abandoned it and haven’t updated it since 2013.

Now that all of that is out of the way, I can talk a little about what I really have been working on: Unity. I know that Unity 5 was just released a few months ago but I have been mainly doing things in Unity 4 because there are so many more tutorials, videos, and books about it, that I wanted to stick with it and figured I could learn the basics in the old engine. However, I plan to move to Unity 5 soon so I don’t fall behind.

I have several smaller projects planned mainly so that I can teach myself how to do different things with Unity and that this will eventually allow me to work independently or work with a team on a full and/or commercial game. I don’t know how hard it will be, but I also plan to put my smaller projects on this website in a Unity web player just to demonstrate what I have done and compile a portfolio for others to see what I have done with Unity in the past.

Check back in a week or two to see a new post about my first project and maybe be able to play it on the website. Enjoy the rest of your summers everyone!

Current Up-To-Date Links (July 2015)
Main site: http://www.hallowgames.com
Blog site: http://hallowgames.blogspot.com (View-able on main website)

Archives for July 2015

Marble Maze

Unity Projects and Updates