Ciro Continisio

@ciro

Game designer/coder, lecturer at times, full-time meme. In the past: coherence, Unity (making Gigaya, Open Projects, Unity Playground). Also been making games (UFHO2, Slybots: Frantic Zone... ?) and Unity tools. He/him/lui/'iss 🇮🇹

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Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jul 12

Quite happy with the reception for BlackBox 2 so far. It's currently sitting at position 21 in the Utilities category when ordered by Popularity (out of 3800 assets!). So not too bad. (and I just noticed, it's #7 when ordered by Relevance – how did that even work??)

A shot of the Unity Asset Store, with the tools BlackBox 2, Advanced Culling System 2 and vFavorites 2 visualised. They're all at 50% discount.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jul 6

Such a lovely game. I've been listening to the soundtrack obsessively for 6 years (it's fantastic), but for some arcane reason I convinced myself that the game was not for me. Today I repaired that, and I have to say, it's an absolutely delightful experience. Try Wilmot's Warehouse if you can!

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 28

Does this classify as a samorost? cc @amanita-design.net

A picture of a trunk, off of which several other plants are growing, including cactus, flowers, succulents, etc. The trunk is in the middle of a beach bar in Ostuni Marina.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 28

Sleep well, sweet prince 🪦

A picture of a green Apecar in a pretty bad state, parked next to another car in Ostuni. Rust and paint coming off, wheel guard broken and falling apart. The thing is kept in place using a plank under the back wheels, to avoid it from sliding down.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 18

I spotted this in the docs, must be really infuriating for a user to read 🤣 Feels like they're trolling!

An info box from the Verse documentation, stating: "Unreleased Feature. first has not yet been released. The following documents planned functionality that is not currently available."

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 18

Not something I thought I'd ever read in my lifetime, but here we go I guess. Donald Trump really can achieve anything. /irony

An article from the newspaper Il Post, talking about the latest agreement between Iran and the US. The line "the United States lost the war" is highlighted.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 8

I mean it's small and blurry, but it's there 🤣

A zoom in detail of an image of the map of Copenhagen, depicting a specific corner of Christianshavn

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 3

For the curious, these are the icons I made, only with a couple of tweaks from the design team. Icon design is not my main craft so I'm quite proud how they turned out. (the TutorialPage icon has a grey background to make it work better due to a UI issue)

Light theme icons for the Tutorial Framework package: WelcomeWindow, TutorialStyles, TutorialSettings, TutorialPage, TutorialContainer, Tutorial, and MaskingPreset.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 3

You're right, I skipped a bit through the video so I missed that... !!! I checked some frames, and googled the inside handle of the Multipla... so it is an actual one! I'm pretty sure you can drive it in the game then.

A frame from the CLUTCH trailer video, showing the inside of a big car with purple lighting. Overlayed on top of it, the shot of the inner handle of a Fiat Multipla, with a red arrow pointing to the original handle in the car.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 3

You can see the car and the logo here

A front side view of the car Fiat Multipla, in grey colour, parked in an alleyway.

Backside shot for Fiat Multipla in grey colour, parked in a street.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jun 3

I'm very puzzled by this trailer for the game CLUTCH. Every now and then it keeps flashing the logo for the Fiat Multipla?? It's especially puzzling because the Multipla is considered one of the unsexiest cars ever made. The trailer: youtu.be/n_GEq0L-krs?...

Ciro Continisio@ciro· May 31

I need obliged to mention though that in Scene Notes you can visualise the note's title in the scene, and customise the colours for the text and the background to really make them stand out! (here pictured very subtle, I screenshotted the store page) Just in case you didn't know!

A 3D scene depicting a countryside road, with a wooden cart and a bluish 3D capsule. Overlaid, a bunch of icons for notes/annotations, each one with a white text beneath the carries the title of the annotation.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 29

A screenshot of a calendar that shows the day May 20th, and has an event on it that says "Phonopolis launch"

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 25

I can't believe it: translation on Twitter, apparently powered by Grok (see icon). In translating from Czech to Italian, Grok... localises the flag emoji?! So much for it being an artificial "intelligence" 🤦🏻‍♂️

Social media post interface showing a repost by Michal Berlinger of a post from Amanita Design (Phonopolis). The UI is in Italian with a “Mostra traduzione” option visible. The post title begins with a Czech flag icon and the word “PREMIÉRA | Constructing Phonopolis.”

Same social media post interface, but translation details are expanded. It shows “Lingua originale: ceco” and “Mostra originale.” The post title is translated into Italian, starting with an Italian flag icon and “PREMIÉRA | Costruire Phonopolis.”

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 21

Nintendo just announced the Splaoon Raiders release date with a new trailer, and... it reminded me of Gigaya 🥲

A shot from the trailer for Gigaya, Unity's cancelled demo from 2022

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 21

A week ago I made a game with a friend during @nordicgamejam.bsky.social where you solve problems of various nature

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 21

As I'm using Unity more and more on a daily basis, I am discovering improvements on features I haven't used in a few years. Today's finding: Presets can have excluded properties, so they can focus on 3-4 properties you really want to set, ensuring others are not overwritten in subsequent reimports 👍🏻

A screenshot of the Preset Manager in Unity. The UI shows a Preset configured for the TextureImporter, set to filter only for files in Assets/Modules/**.

A screenshot of a TextureImporter preset. Many properties are disabled, shown with a red line on the left and the field being grayed out.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 15

Hahahahaha is this guy for real

A screenshot from the Italian newspaper "Il Post", showing American vice-president JD Vance. The title and subtitle read:
"JD Vance says the Pope must be careful when discussing theology
The US vice president, a Catholic, has joined the controversy between Donald Trump and Leo XIV over the war in the Middle East."

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Apr 1

12 years ago today, I launched my first indie game: UFHO2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwLM...

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Mar 18

The @AssetStore is doing a bundle sale, and both my bundles are 50% off as part of it. - All Editor Tools: bit.ly/editorassets... - Essential Bundle: bit.ly/essentials_as #unity3d #gamedev #tools

A graphic with a purple background displaying a stylized countertop, with folders, windows, a flag, and Unity gizmos as items on it. Two balloons say AssetStore and Bundles Collection. A black silhouette of a hand is reaching out to one of the gizmos.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Mar 9

I am also finding out about some shockingly good demo scenes. Like, there's one with spherical gravity and the little one just walks over the sphere, no problem, then transitions to a moving cube, no problem, all of it with the camera avoiding occlusion. Good job, Greg 👏🏻

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Mar 9

I just found out that the little character in the Cinemachine demos is called Cameron. ... Cameron. Hehe 😏

A little 3D humanoid figure in red overalls, with a camera objective instead of a head. On top of the head, behind the camera lens, is a big gear.
The character is proudly standing against a checkered floor in shades of gray.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Feb 27

I can't believe I lived long enough to see this happen

A banner with a warning sign, and the text The Built-in Render Pipeline is deprecated for Unity Editor versions 6000.5 and newer.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Feb 26

Starting from SubAssets Toolbox 1.1.0, you can ask the tool to patch existing reference to new sub-assets. This really closes the loop in terms of UX, and avoids tedious and error-prone reference-fixing work for you.

Screenshot of a Unity modal titled “Patch references” with the Unity icon at the top. The dialog explains that when creating or removing sub-assets, references can become Missing, and asks whether to patch all references to the newly created sub-assets, warning about possible data loss. Three buttons are shown: “Patch References” (blue primary button), “Don’t Patch,” and “Cancel Moving Assets.” Below, a caption reads: “Patch references — Normally when creating/removing sub-assets, references to it become Missing. Not with SubAssets Toolbox!”

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Feb 26

I just published version 1.1.0 of my tool SubAssets Toolbox for #unity3d. This version brings a new feature that really closes the circle when it comes to working with sub-assets! Let me explain 🧵

Banner for “SubAssets Toolbox” with the title in bold black text and a red cube icon. Below, a dark Unity interface shows a Prefab with several sub-assets as icons: a ScriptableObject (cube with braces), Animation Clip (green triangle), VFX Graph Asset (blue and yellow flame), and a Material (blue sphere).

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Feb 18

Made a tiny free Unity utility to have a button on the main toolbar that allows to enter Play Mode with Fast Enter Play Mode options enabled. You can still enter PM with full domain reload by just pressing good ol' Play button. This allows to choose the behaviour every time at the click of a button.

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Feb 11

Nice! I've been following the game for a loooong time! It's nice to see how it's evolved, and to know who's behind it! ✨

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Jan 3

Just a few days to go, if you're interested! assetstore.unity.com/publishers/8... #unity3d #gamedev

Black promotional graphic for Unity tools. Large white text reads “Productivity for the whole team.” On the sides are small preview images of Unity scenes and the Unity editor, labeled “Toon Shader,” “Blackbox,” and “All Tools Bundle.” Bottom text says: “New year sale is ongoing, so some of my assets are 50% off (including the All Tools bundle).”

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Dec 29

Extremely good and fun present I got from my brother and sister ❤️

Ciro Continisio@ciro· Dec 18

Quite enjoying Metroid Prime 4. The gameplay is... ok. The flow, the power-ups, the riddles, the fights – it feels like I've already seen it a few times 😐 But the top-notch presentation makes up for it. Absolute fantastic set design, music, particles, all in all atmosphere.