The Debug Log

‘The crowd here is electric, Ryan! Developers of all shapes, sizes, and skillsets are pouring into the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention center here in Boston. We’ll be here all week on the ground floor, so stay tuned to the episode for more in-depth discussions on Unite. Anyway, stay classy TDLers and back to you in the studio, Ryan!’ Unite 2015 Field Reporters Zack, Obinna, Andrew, and Eduardo (with special guest, Diana) talk about their experiences while at Unite 2015 in Boston...

What's the 'Viralability' of your mobile game? What's Viralability, you ask? Well, I'll tell you! Viralability is a completely made-up word that defines the capacity for your mobile game to go viral! If your game isn't hitting a Viralability Score of 6...

Chugga chugga choo choo! That's right, folks! Unite 2015 is here and we're uber excited to be hopping on the hype train going straight to Boston. We can’t wait to engage with the growing Unity community at the conference and hope we can meet a few of our listeners while there — whether it’s at a bar, restaurant, library, or alleyway (um…scratch that)! In this episode, we start by talking about some of the new features and fixes that came with Unity’s 5.2 release...

In this episode we speak with a handful of game development pioneers in CEO and Founder of Fig, Justin Bailey and the team behind the 2015 IGF Grand Prize winner, Outer Wilds. Justin breaks down how the Fig platform works as a curated crowdfunding and investing medium where passionate players and developers intersect. Lead Designer Alex Beachum, Producer Avimaan Syam, and Engineer Logan Ver Hoef describe the premise and promise of Outer Wilds, an in-depth exploration game built in Unity3D...

A personal Github account with Large File Storage: $0. Hosting a server for your repository: $300. Writing an epic compression algorithm that you lose because you didn’t have your project under source control: priceless. Devs, don’t be -that- person! Set your projects up with version control — early and often. In this episode we do a survey of the more popular version control systems (VCS) made available to developers, while also covering the advantages and disadvantages of each...

Byah, byah, byah! Ahem, that was me practicing my jiu jitsu moves via text... anyway, horrible jokes aside, if you've ever wanted to motion capture your fighting moves, dances moves, or pretty much anything else -- then this episode is definitely for you! In this episode we talk to James C. Martin, Owner and operator of Mobacap, a company that specializes in providing motion capture services. James talks about a powerful, yet inexpensive mo cap suit by Noitom called Perception Neuron...

We raise a glass to you, Christian Strang, for without you today's episode might not have been possible! On today's episode we tackle Christian's question about our favorite Unity Asset Store assets. Each of the guys pick one of their favorite assets and talk about how the asset has influenced the way they develop games in Unity3D...

We raise a glass to you, Christian Strang, for without you today's episode might not have been possible! On today's episode we tackle Christian's question about our favorite Unity Asset Store assets. Each of the guys pick one of their favorite assets and talk about how the asset has influenced the way they develop games in Unity3D...

We raise a glass to you, Christian Strang, for without you today's episode might not have been possible! On today's episode we tackle Christian's question about our favorite Unity Asset Store assets. Each of the guys pick one of their favorite assets and talk about how the asset has influenced the way they develop games in Unity3D...

Oh. My. God. It's Mark Schoennagel!!! *throws panties at stage!* That's right, folks! We've managed to snag an interview with an inside man in Unity Evangelist, Mark Schoennagel. If your memory isn't as bad as ours, then you will probably remember Mark Schoennagel who MC'd the Awards show (quite beautifully) at Unity's Unite 2014 in Seattle and who will be doing the same during the 2015 Unite Conference in Boston...