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Wow, all I can say is wow. Last week was intense to say the least as we not only held Unite ‘08, our second ever Unity developer conference, but we also released our iPhone publishing support (more on that in a separate post). The conference was incredible, the attendance figures more than doubled (180 this year compared to 80 last year), we had none other than Phil Harrison participating in the keynote presentation and we had more sessions, two parties and an all around fantastic time.

I spent most of the time dashing about trying to keep the machine moving, presenters ready and attendees properly herded into the appropriate rooms. Despite that I was able to meet and speak with a lot of people, including a number of forum regulars (Thomas, Martin, Emil and many others), and I was able to meet up with a lot of folks relatively new to the Unity community. Overall the feedback I heard was that the conference was enjoyed by all and that the material presented was very useful and informative. I’m sitting here with a stack of tapes as we recorded all sessions, next up will be to edit those and get them posted online for all to view. Stay tuned!

My mind is already wandering and thinking about Unite ‘09, where it will be, how many people will attend and how we can make it even better than this year. But first I need to catch up on all the email, voice mail and other work. Thanks to everyone that made this year so great, to all my coworkers at Unity Technologies and Unity Studios, to the gang from Flashbang Studios/Blurst.com for helping sponsor both the Unity Mingle events we held, to all the guest speakers that participated and of course to everyone that attended the event. I’ll see y’all in 2009!

It’s been an exciting year for us at Unity Technologies and it’s only getting better. Not only are we on the doorstep of the release of our Unity iPhone Publishing support, but we’re also on the doorstep of our second ever (and now yearly) Unity developer conference, Unite 2008. Then to cap it all off we’re now thrilled to announce a guest speaker that will help deliver the opening keynote presentation, Phil Harrison! w00t!

If you don’t recognize that name then maybe you live in a cave or you’ve just been a bit too busy these last few years to take note of a prominent figure in the gaming industry. He’s the President of Atari for starters, but you can go here on Wikipedia to learn more about who he is. Otherwise go here to learn more about Unite 2008, I hope we see you there!

So I’m finally back to do a little wrap-up on our Austin GDC effort, now that I’m finally caught up on everything else. In short, the conference was fantastic, unbelievable, a total success, <insert many other superlatives here>! The conference itself covered three days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday), but the expo floor was only open the second two days (Tuesday and Wednesday), and both days saw our booth jam packed with folks stopping by to learn more about Unity.

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Spotted today in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency Austin was a pack of four wild Unity Technologies employees working the day away:

From left to right you’ll spot me, Amir, David and Sam, we’re all here for the Austin GDC conference and so far each time we’ve made our way outside we’ve run into folks that recognize us or that want to ask questions about Unity. That includes last night, while standing along a bridge in the dark to watch bats fly about below us, David managed to get roped in by someone asking questions about Unity! Today has been no different, we had folks chat us up while registering, while walking around and even during breakfast!

The conference calendar has today as a sessions-only day and exhibitors don’t get to attend those, bummer! But tomorrow the expo floor opens up and we once again expect to have a super busy booth and thus the extra muscle (last year we only had Sam and I here). Anyone that’s in town for the conference should come by and say hello (booth 130), everyone else should stay tuned for updates as I hope to post more photos and let everyone know just how well it goes.

I know it’s been a while since I last posted so I figured that it was time to get back to blog posting and provide some updates as last week was rather exciting for us. Here’s the latest from our end…

Casual Connect Seattle
Unity 2.1 Released
Press Release News: 2 In-Browser MMOs in development using Unity!

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