Unity3D

I actually used it and I would say its actually quite nice. I used to be one of those programmers who turned my nose up when I heard about it.

Now I don't really mind using it. And hey my next job is going to pay pretty well to use it. So I really really don't mind.

 

It's the primary engine we use, doing casual, mobile, Facebook stuff.

 

Unity also allows you to make a game once for multiple platforms. It's one of it's most valuable features.

 

This is an old post but it really made me chuckle.

 

I would say that as a programmer I can quickly understand what kind of issues Unity code can bring. Also I can sort of also quickly relate to whats happening under the hood even if I can't see the code.

So I would think with unity and its power, a game programmer could easily utilize it to quite a huge potential without having to worry about cross platform.

I haven't written plugins but I am guessing when you do write it you will end up worrying about the much lower level stuff.

 

muh... never mind

 

You replied to a post I wrote a couple of years ago when I had just started using Unity. Since then I have released 1 iOS game, have another one finished (have spent a while looking for a publisher after the dismal sales of the first) and am halfway through the third. I think Unity is brilliant.

Cross platform is mostly quite easy. I started development with it set up for playing on a Mac, but once I had bought the Unity iPhone add-on, it was just a matter of changing the controls and a few minor things such as coping with app multitasking.

I needed to use plugins for Game Center and advertising, for which you do need to go deeper. As this was beyond my newly developed programming abilities, I bought the plugins from someone on the Unity Forums. As with most Unity things, there is a lot of help on their forums to get you pointed in the right direction if you wanted to do that for yourself.

 

I would also advise anyone to pay attention to dates on some of these posts as Unity has had some significant updates since 2009.

 

I know it is an old post. I felt like replying as someone commented on it. I will add to it.

I haven't seen an issue with the portability except for the input change. That too seems to be pretty simple to make it portable. Having written code for cross platform all the time (pc/console/Handhelds) this kind of issue looks really trivial.

The only issue I see is a lot of people making the mistake of mixing the scripting languages they are using i.e JS and C# which again is not unity's fault. But if you want to shoot yourself in the foot and make a mess in the project mixing the 2 scripts in a project is the way to go especially if some of them are dependent on each other.

 

Unity opens games portal to LG Smart TVs

 

The iOS Basic and Android Basic licenses are free until the 8th of April.

 

Where is info about this?

 

On the store. Good find!

 

Wish I'd popped out from the walled garden that is the Private Forums and seen that offer when it was still on. Starting up a private project to potter around on, and that may well have made me pick Unity.