Archive for September, 2009

Here we are again, putting the final touches on the latest and greatest release of Unity — version 2.6. The team is already amazed at how many new games are being made today! They’re being rolled out so quickly that we can’t always keep up. So to help us make sure that everything in the…

GamesIndustry.biz’s Phil Elliott talks to Unity CCO Nicholas Francis about iPhone development and the growth of Unity Technologies in this interview entitled United We Stand.

Thanks to you guys, having an iPhone game made with Unity topping iPhone chart sales is no surprise to anyone. But do you know that there were simultaneously 3 games in TOP100 ALL apps at the beginning of the last week? Now even better — at least* 5 games made with Unity can be found in TOP100…

ShogunGamer’s Corey Rollins did a great interview with EA Tiburon’s Greg Rinaldi about his team’s experience using Unity to create Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online. Using Unity 3D allowed us to have a much more efficient budget, team size and timeline than we would have had if we’d decided to build our own solution from scratch. …

Just a quick announcement to say that our users have organized a gathering of Unity developers in downtown Austin at 8pm tonight (Thursday) at the Driskill Hotel Bar (map).

We’re happy to announce that tickets to this year’s Unite ’09 conference are now on sale! This year’s event is a bit different than the prior two years as there is now an optional lead-in day of classes that folks can attend. The conference runs Tuesday to Friday, October 27th to the 30th, Tuesday is…

This blog post is written by Ben Throop who has been working on a Detonator framework to generate great-looking explosions in Unity games. The project was one of the four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code and the first to be wrapped up and released. Explosions are a really common…

A group of us are here in Austin TX representing Unity at the Game Developers Conference Austin. The show floor just closed for the day and I wanted to give a status report of the events thus far before heading off to dinner. We’ve got a great presence on this year’s expo floor; you can’t…

Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Jim Rossingol recently did a great interview with our very own Nicholas Francis about the history of Unity and “making tech simple”. Check it out here!

I decided to clean up the Touch Phases project I had from a while back and post it to our iPhone example projects. You can now record and play back touch input in either the editor or on the device. Even before adding recording/playback, I used this project as a debugging tool when building the…

Some time ago we’ve announced our third Unite conference. The conference will have many Unity employees, as well as Unity users, giving presentations, to share their experience with the conference’s attendees. In order to make sure we get the best line up of speakers possible, we’re calling out to the Unity community: We would like…

During the last six weeks, the selected participants for Unity’s first Summer of Code program have been working hard at making the ideas from their proposals come to life. It has been very exciting for us at Unity to see what people can do with our product with a good idea and six weeks of…