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Spring 2025 Update: No Plans with Lenovo LA1/LA2 Support

  UMC Games Statement on Lenovo LA1/LA2 UMC (United Metrolite Central) Games has confirmed that we have no plans to support Lenovo’s LA1/LA2 embedded AI chips . These RISC‑based controllers introduce limitations at the game engine level that may negatively affect player experience. For best performance, we strongly recommend disabling the LA feature via Lenovo Vantage on supported laptops. This position aligns with the wider Linux development community, who have also confirmed that there are no plans to provide driver support for LA1/LA2. The chips are tightly bound to Lenovo Vantage and Windows, leaving them effectively unsupported in open environments. Continues here... Development Update: Unicycle: The Champions Our ongoing work on Unicycle: The Champions continues with the goal of reinventing, refining, and meeting the evolving demands of our players . We remain committed to delivering unmatched possibilities across our major projects. However, it is important to note tha...

2025 Update: Hardware Requirement Changes

 We tested the requirements are possible, so, will be updating these requirements for PC only because their new engine from GameMaker runtime that required to run the game. Here are possible updated spec requirements (see below). Also added recommended system requirements to ensure best performance. Official System Requirements: For PC (old): OS:  Windows 10 (Version 1809 or later)  Note: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025. We recommend upgrading to Windows 11 for continued security updates. CPU:  AMD Athlon X4 or Intel Celeron G-series (or higher) GPU:  Intel HD Graphics 500 series, AMD Radeon HD 7000 series, or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series Storage Space:  200MB available on disk DirectX:  DirectX 10 or newer For PC (new): OS:  Windows 10 (Version 1809 or later) Windows 11 (21H2 or Later)  Note: Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025. We recommend upgrading to Windows 11 for continued security updates. CPU:  AMD Athlon X4...

Update: The Project was disrupted by false detection

We released statement regarding McAfee which were disrupted.   On June 15, 2025, we installed GameMaker game project for Unicycle: The Champions to make faster but unfortunately my antivirus, McAfee flagged as false threat was ProjectTools.dll  file and led to corruption making unable to open project, so I initiated to recover files until complete full recovery on June 16, 2025. We hope to continue developing the refined engine to build easier than worst games like Barro game which developed by SC Games (SC Jogos).

Mid-2025 Update: Migrating the Game Engine

 Today, we're moving from old engine to new engine called GameMaker, as was previously used Unity which was harder to code with no knowledge. But good news, we are to build the game from artwork concept in GameMaker engine. GameMaker is a beginner-focused for easy to develop the game and actually to make fast to develop the new games like Unicycle: The Champions .

Summer 2025 Update: The Artwork

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 Today, we are releasing artwork of Unicycle: The Champions gameplay concept that makes illustration game only to able craft the concept. Start menu after starting game: Concept of start menu after starting game with "Press any key" text signals to begin. Main menu (Home): Concept of main menu artwork Gameplay Concept: Artwork gameplay concept with touch screen controls. The key assets that used in GUI listed below. Note: The GUI may change without further notice. Key assets in GUIs: Pause button: Pauses the game. Home button: Enters the main menu. Level button: Selects the level. Restart button: Restarts the game if stuck. Skip button: Lets to skip the level. Help button: Help provides useful knowledge. Privacy button: Lets to view privacy policy and data collection. These used with own assets from scratch to align the quality standard for GUI assets. I refined the trial and error made comeback and guessing the mechanics of GUI for mobile.

Official Logo New Game Reveal: Unicycle: The Champions

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 Today, we are revealing the new game called  Unicycle: The Champions  from UMC's brand new studio for developing game since they cancelled the planned release of  Terracraft  series due to complexity of sandbox platforms they stated. So, I made the new logo they created by hand-made using Paint software used to draw by mouse. Here is reveal: Official logo of  Unicycle: The Champions Official logo icon (for game icon and website) These remarks that draw inspiration from  Unicycle Legend  and  Street Uni X.  This resembles of racing and classic game level that tricks the challenge over 200+ level classics. Genre was classified as sport racing, action, and trick. We're developing using new engine is Unity, a game builder software that creates your own dream of game. Description: The goal is set balance, but don't hit the floor if fail imbalance of unicycles! Over 200+ levels is a unique challenging and tricks and now don't get fail the lev...

New blog website launched!

 We're launching new website blog called UMC Games (United Metrolite Central Games) was established in 2025 officially begins the new studio by just single dev ever. We handed the new website first is Unicycle: The Champions, a first UMC Games to be developed using Paint scratch and Unity game maker. Today we are updating basis based on game updates and central hub. Edit on 8/7/2025: We edited and separated from the startup company UMC and UMC Games.