The Union Games

We are an Indie Game Studio based in New York.

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Color Crash Official Release

We would like to officially announce the release of Color Crash! Color Crash is now available on both on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Please see links below!

Please support us by sharing this post and letting your friends and family play our game. We hope you have as much fun as we had creating it!

Free Edition: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theuniongames.colorcrash.free iOS:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-crash-free-edition/id1067355442?ls=1&mt=8

Gold Edition: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theuniongames.colorcrash.full iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-crash-gold-edition/id1065360424?ls=1&mt=8

For more info visit our website at http://colorcrash.strikingly.com/

Enjoy!

TheUnionGames

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ColorCrash - Gameplay

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Color Crash Icons 

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Hey Everyone,

We apologize for the big absence, but we have been make some changes to the game. As you may have noticed we have changed the title name for the game, as a few weeks ago we found out the game was released with the same name so we decided to change it. The game was a different concept, but did not want to cause any confusion among the games. 

Some updates since last time are, we updated the colors, created enemy models, added animations, enhanced the UI system, and created tons of new levels. We wanted to the game to be welcoming to various players and chose three unique colors as received a lot of positive feedback from these colors. 

We wanted to make models for all our blocks, however we made a mistake on how we created our blocks for each level, this placed in a difficult situation as we would need to update each block one by one for each level. This would’ve been time consuming and pushed back our launch date. Instead we left the blocks as is but included particle effects and made the enemy blocks more distinguishable as they have borders around them. 

There are some small animations which we implemented when switching color lines. We wanted make it have an effect of jumping on a guitar string. Another update we made was to include sound effects. 

We also received some advice from a few outside Game Designers and received some pretty good feedback on how we can enhance our game. This led us to change our UI system and improve it to make more mobile friendly. 

If you would like early access to iOS version email us at [email protected] and we will grant you early access to our game. 

Please support our first released game, by sharing this post and the game with your friends!

Thanks,

The Union Games

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We have big updates for you this week! There have been many visual changes to the game. We have also included sound effects (we will show you a video soon). 

One of the visual changes we have made was our color theme. At first, we were going to go with pastel colors, but they looked to soft and ended up choosing colors that are not often as popular but still stand out. We have also revamped the Game Over Popup. Now it fits in with the theme of the game. There have been some visual cues added in order for the players to know (if they have ad version) to touch the “Credits Button” to watch an ad. We had some testers, who seemed to be confused on what to do next after running out of credits to play. We hope the visual cues are strong enough for them to understand. 

Another cool Visual Effect we added, was the particle effect of when the player collides with a wrong color, which go nicely with the sound effects that have been added. 

We are currently a developing a model for the enemies, along with new levels. We have created about 100 levels so far. We want to double that, so you can have crazy amount of fun with the game. 

We feel the game is really coming together! We hope to have a trailer for you guys by next week so you can see the game in action! Remember to follow us!

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We have more updates for you! This week we were able to create a few enemy types, that we have decided to include in the game. We currently are working on visuals for them. However, there will be an enemy which will have a wave to it and another which will follow you. We hope this will encourage the player to tilt their phone. We also worked on updated the buttons for the main menu and game over menu by adding some animation and color to them. Another task we completed was the credit system for the game in which you will need a credit to play the game. 

We have been discussing visuals and will be picking out permanent color themes soon. Currently we are creating more levels and mainly working on visuals right now to make the game more appealing. We also will be running an A/B test to see if it would make more sense for the left side of the phone to be up and the right side of the phone to be down or vice versa. We are doing this test to determine game feel. Other stuff we are working on is developing the website and presskit for the game, adding particle and sound effects, and work on creating and icon for the game.

As you see we have our hands full and will continue to work hard to deliver a great game for you guys. Remember to follow us!  

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Hey Everyone! Check out some more screenshots of our game! This was our first PlayTest Version. We’ve developed some test levels currently and are going to continue working on developing more levels.  We will test them out to ensure that game will be fun for the player. We were able to run the PlayTest Version on both iOS and Android devices without any issues. YAY!!!!.... Follow us for more updates on our game!

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Game Dev Update - Week 4

This past week we’ve been working on developing a few items as stated in our last post. We were able to finish creating our collision and trigger system that the enemy and player will have in order to detect if the player is same color as the enemy. A few levels were created, which are then implemented using our zone system. Once we had those components working we placed our attention to scoring and Basic GUI elements. I say basic, because we want to focus on having the core components functional first and then target the visuals afterwards. 

We are almost finish setting up our first PlayTest Version. We promise that we will soon bring you a live demo, as currently we are just adjusting a few parameters to better suit the game, but for now check out the image below of what we have in place so far!

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Game Dev Update - Week 3

We've been working hard on creating our game. So hard we forgot to give you guys an update sooner! Primarily, we’ve been focusing our attention on game feel and a custom enemy zone (level) creation system. Making sure the game is smooth and feels natural (not robotic) is important to us. 

During our development of player movement, we came across a few issues. This made us have to re-code the player movement script a few times to make sure it would move up and down when tapping the screen just right, but also change the player’s color. The player will change it’s color based on the layer it’s on. 

After completing our player’s movement, we went on to focus on spawning our enemies and enemy zones. We know that we will need create many zones, starting from an easy zone and gradually moving to harder zones. We created a very flexible system, that would not just allow us to create zones with a range of various difficulties, but also enemy types. Once this was completed, our focus was combining both player movement and our zone creation system. 

Next, we will be working on the player to enemy collection, creating different levels using our zone creation system, scoring, and a GUI menu system. We want to have out first Playtest Version completed by next week. Hopefully, you guys will be able to see it live in action in our next update!

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Week 2 Update

Hey guys! This week we finally nailed down what we’re going to work towards in regards to our mobile game. Now that we have our core concept we just need to focus on getting it all together. We have tilt controls working on our first prototype and from here we’re going to move forward with implementing the core game play features. I’m not going to reveal too much of what we’re working on right now but it’s good to finally have a idea we can all work towards together. We’ve split up who will be working on what part of the game and will be putting everything together every week. It’s good to finally get the gears turning on this project!

We’ll be getting our first playable test build out later this month, and more details on the game itself will surface soon!

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Welcome

Hey everyone, 

Welcome to our Developer Blog, where you will be able to read the latest updates on our upcoming game. We’re excited to start creating it (we hope you are too). Our goal is to create an awesome entertaining game with a minimalist design. 

We have already have decided a few details about how we will develop the game. We have decided to use the Unity 2D game engine. Also, we have discussed which platforms to consider releasing it on, most likely it will be for iOS and Andriod (we may consider other platforms). 

Look for our next post, where you will for the first time see insight on the development of the game.