Our new dedicated server is an Intel i5 with 16GB RAM and 2TB of disk, along with a 1GB network card and a lot of TB of bandwidth to eat and… far away from DreamHost VPS as our last VPS there was honestly a bad experience. We are now on the OVH network, which by itself is a guarantee of solid service

Once you have it, the #1 problem is: where do I run it? Well, if you run it on your own PC you have no safety net in case of disk failure, and if the server has to be accessed by more people on your team, people not physically in the office, then you need a cable connection and the server has to stay always on. So, the logical consequence is: I need a hosting service, but I found none!

That’s why we are proud to announce that we have just started an Unity Asset Server Project Hosting service!

Have a look to our dedicated website to find out more!

We are now looking into our next Freebie which most likely will be a serialization manager, able to manage SQLite for Unity also in Unity Indie edition.

This starter kit, just like our successful 3D Match-3 Starter Kit, is realized at a quite high standard and obviously working and tested on mobile platform as well.

Our Roadmap is split in three milestones:

Release 1.0 (now on stage 2 in QA):

• Editor extension to visually define the enemies’ wave paths (based on iTween): you can define as many waves paths you want; each path has its own set of waves and enemies
• Usual stuff: base tower costs, upgrade costs, damage levels, speed, fast forward and so on
  Unlimited configurable Towers’ action animations, allowing to set also the muzzle transforms, unlimited firing audio and visual effects on a per-upgrade level basis (each level can have as many animations and effects you want)
• Wave manager allowing unlimited waves and unlimited enemy objects, integrated with animated characters and wheeled vehicles. Spawn/die audio and visual effects configurable on a per-enemy type basis
• Unlimited and fully customizable tower upgrades
• Camera modes: free fly and tower look (like the player sits on top of the selected tower following the action)
• The player at any time can decide to get into a tower and play in first person, orienting the tower and choosing to fire manually or set on auto-fire mode.

Release 2.0 (Q4 2011):

• Air support: the player can buy air support at every defined time interval, event or simply unrestrictedly
• Network: multiplayer with Coop and Vs modes

Release 3.0 (Q2 2012):

• Network: MMOG Server side support to allow implementation of statically stored virtual worlds that continue playing 24/7 accepting players at any time if an available game slot is free. Game slots are configurable to allow small or huge server configurations.

The introductory price for the version 1.0 will be $110. The price will go to $165 upon release of version 2.0 and finally $260 upon release of v. 3.0. Releases 2 and 3 will be pushed on Unity Asset Store as updates, so early adopters will have all those great features for free!

This kit allows you to have a fully functional Match-3 game in minutes!

Main features:

• Unity Extension to easily design the boards’ layout
• Blocked cells (unblocked matching three special pieces)
• Three levels of strong pieces
• Standard Match-3 gameplay
• Novel gameplay designed by us (if you use it adding DFT Games in your credits screen would be very nice!)
• Complimentary scores serialization manager
• Coded for fast processing and designed having the mobile platform limits in mind

The script manages the input for web/standalone games, but we are about to release (as an update) a full mobile input management as well.

Just click in the logo here to give it a try on Kongregate!

My wife last week had this idea and I liked it a lot, so here we are presenting our first level, still unfinished. As the game logic is quite simple what it’s needed now is just a few tens of levels, so we are down to producing those quickly. Our art guy (Enzo, see our Team page) suggested to theme the game on pirates, so it’s a nice Pirate Marble Maze variant.

This should be published on Facebook at the same time of Action Shooting Camp, so we’ll have two games hitting Facebook’s consumers around mid January, so it’s in a week or so

Well… time to stop bragging about it and make place to the video

Bottom line… keeping busy!

In this game the player is a SWAT trainee facing the challenges of an almost standard Action Shooting Camp. We present two different gameplay here:

1. The classic range action shooting where in a given time (3 minutes in our game) the trainee has to clear a given number of targets. If the player hits civilians loses hits so to reach the needed 50 valid hits within the 3 minutes needs to be very careful.
2. The classic reverse time attack: on the given path are hidden a number of targets; the player has to clear the area in the shortest possible time. This gameplay is pretty much the same seen in Call of Duty 4 (Training Course) so the users of this genre of games are quite familiar with the approach.

We are going to publish this via dR Arcade as we believe it’s the perfect starting point. Here’s a video of the game in its present development state: the code is finished, the music isn’t final and so the levels that need some more polish.