Archive for 2009
Top 5 Game Company 2009
What a wonderful Christmas present! So, 2009 has been an amazing year. I won’t list out all our achievements, but they’ve been many, and some big enough that achieving just one of the... Continue
Unity Asset Server 2.0 Released!
Today we’re excited to have released Unity Asset Server 2.0! This is a free update for all existing users of the Unity Asset Server and it offers the following new features: The Unity Asset... Continue
Getting Started With Unity
There’s a lot to learn about Unity, much of which can be accessed through our support page, but it can be a little daunting to know where to start. I personally think that the two PDFs tha... Continue
Kongregate.com now supports Unity content!
The news, the great news, just keeps on coming! Recently the folks at Kongregate.com announced their new Konduit Platform and one of the cool benefits of that news is that they are now open to no... Continue
Happy Holidays from Unity Technologies!
Hey folks, the end of another incredible year is rapidly coming to a close and the holiday season is fast upon us, and we here at Unity Technologies want to help everyone celebrate with a special... Continue
iTunes Rewind 2009 Recognizes Unity Games!
Apple recently put out their iTunes Rewind 2009, it’s Apple’s way of recognizing the best music, TV, movies and of course iPhone applications and games from this last year. What’... Continue
Unity Technologies UK office
The UK Office Hello everyone! My first blog post is to announce that our UK office is open and rocking already. There are now five of us working for Unity Technologies from the UK, and we ... Continue
Rock, Paper, Shotgunity
The fun guys over at PC gaming enthusiast site Rock, Paper, Shotgun are making a RPS themed game, with the help of their community, and detailing their progress along the way: “Those who do... Continue
Unity 2.6.1 Released!
Hey everyone, We’ve just shipped Unity 2.6.1 out to the world. This release includes a Webplayer that is compatible with 64-bit Safari on Snow Leopard, and fixes for problems affecting terr... Continue
Toronto + Unity: First User Group Meeting
Tony Garcia, Director of Business Development, and I went to Toronto recently for a whirlwind Unity tour like the one Tom Higgins did not too long ago in Vancouver. What can we say? We love suppo... Continue
Character Customization & AssetBundles
A while ago, I was talking to a customer who was trying to figure out how to best make a customizable character in their game. After explaining how I’d do it, I figured it would make good m... Continue
Unity iPhone 1.5.1 Released
I’m pleased to announce that we released Unity iPhone 1.5.1 yesterday. Unity iPhone 1.5.1 includes improved XCode support and improved AssetBundle support, but more importantly Native API... Continue
5 NEW Unity powered iPhone games in TOP100
It’s been less than 2 months and we have 5 new Unity powered games which hit the App Store TOP100 charts*: *) order of the titles is rather arbitrary and does not represent position in the ... Continue
Fridays Are For Fun!
At end of April 2009, Joachim sent this out to all developers at Unity: We want to try one more thing… On Friday work on something cool. I think there are a lot of low hanging fruits in Uni... Continue
Summer of Code: External Lightmapping Tool Release...
During the summer, I’ve had the pleasure to mentor Michał Mandrysz, as he created an External Lightmapping Tool for Unity, as part of Unity’s Summer Of Code. As of today, you can dow... Continue
New UnityAnswers Community Site
Unity keeps growing in every respect; not least our user community. The Unity Forums get more and more users and we welcome them all! Some of our users have expressed concern that the higher volu... Continue
Unity iPhone App Store Submissions – Problem...
Recently some Unity customers who have been very anxious to get their game approved by Apple for listing in the app store have received a disappointing rejection notice by Apple because they use ... Continue
Blast From the Past pt. 3: A growing company
As most of Unity Technologies was present during Unite, we decided to get a new group photo taken for our website.In case you haven’t seen it yet, this was the result: This is just the late... Continue
Unity Content Featured in iLounge Buyer’s Gu...
Earlier this week iLounge released their 2010 iPod + iPhone Buyer’s Guide and a number of Unity titles are featured in their top games list! For starters you can check it all out at the fol... Continue
2009 Unity Awards – Finalists & Winners...
Now that we’re clear of the frantic week we call Unite 2009 let’s talk about the also incredible Unity Awards! Once again we had a huge increase in not only the total number of submis... Continue
Unite 2009, it’s a wrap, see you next time!
Wow, Unite 2009 has come to a close and once again it was an awesome/incredible/crazy/you-name-it week! Now that I’ve had a day or so to rest and recuperate a bit I figured I’d take a... Continue
Unite 09 Day 2
So finally I’m uploading the photos after a day of great news! First we start with all the people crowded at the hall of the conference room:... Continue
A free Unity?
Short answer: yes! Long answer: read on At the Unite 2009 conference we just announced that Unity Indie would be discontinued and that a new version of Unity (called just “Unity”) wou... Continue
Unite 2009: Day 2 Begins
As the sun rises over San Franciso we’re gearing up for another exciting day at Unite 2009. Yesterday was a new experiment for us in having a day of classes added on to the conference and f... Continue
Unite 09 Day 1
For those who couldn’t come or those who didn’t know, today was the first day of Unite 09, everything was great! Still we had some minor technical issues with the Internet, but we fin... Continue
Preparing Unite
So, a bunch of us are busy getting everything ready for Unite – check out this people of guys who’s responsible for doing the conference visuals. It’s a pretty sweet setup (and ... Continue
Unity on the Web – Using Reddit to Keep Trac...
With such a rapidly growing community and user base behind Unity it’s become increasingly difficult to keep tabs on all the developer blogs, cool content, all the new 3rd party tutorial and... Continue
Unity Game Development Essentials
By now many folks are aware of the fact that Will Goldstone has written a book about Unity, it’s called Unity Game Development Essentials and it’s being published by Packt Publishing.... Continue
SIEGE 2009 – My (Brief) Trip Report
This past weekend I traveled down to Atlanta, Georgia to speak at SIEGE 2009 (Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo). During my trip I not only got to meet a number of local develope... Continue
Building Buzz for Your Game
We see new games being made with Unity at an ever increasing rate. A lot of them get picked up by the gaming media thanks to the sprawling creativity of our users – others don’t get n... Continue