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Archive for March, 2009

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MacTech Magazine champions Unity

In the April issue of MacTech magazine, LearnUnity3D’s own Will Goldstone introduces readers to Unity, giving a quick overview of the ease of learning curve and joy of getting into games development with the engine. In his article ‘Unity : The little engine that can’ Will champions the use of the ready built engine to [...]

Unity iPhone Pong Example Project

The very generous Kevin R of vectorboxgames.com has donated his recent work with Unity iPhone, creating an example Pong project for you to download and pick apart and learn from. Now his game is finished it available on the App Store, Details on the game are here – http://www.vectorboxgames.com/vong/index.html I know a lot of people [...]

Unity 2.5 Released!

Congrats to everyone at UT and all the guys on the beta, rc5 has become final version 2.5! This new version was dubbed by Unity Technologies themselves as “easily and definitely the largest, most important release of Unity we’ve ever released”, 2.5 is a massive leap forward for the package. Along with the new verison [...]

diamondTearz Unity Documentary & Resources

An excellent collection of stuff covering many aspects of work with Unity from developer and guru diamondTearz on del.icio.us. Well worth taking time to look through everything he has accumulated and big thanks to him for taking time to do that. This developer has also made an excellent documentary series on youtube chronicling the need [...]

Flash Vs Unity Analysis

An interesting article from Protopop following on from John Grden’s Adobe addressing blog post, stating a more balanced view that I certainly adhere, that Unity is doing well on its own, and that potentially an Adobe buyout would not be pushing innovation by Adobe and could cause the currently thriving culture of Unity’s growth to [...]

Google Earth to Unity Tutorial

Excellent tutorial from 3D Nemo entertainment on getting real terrain topography from google earth into Unity as a terrain. Awesome! You’ll need access to Google Earth and also SketchUp as part of the procedure, but otherwise its not as complex as you may think.. What are you waiting for? Hit the link.. http://3dnemo.com/031_G_to_U.html

The Awesome Tumbledrop coming to your iPhone!

The fantastic Tumbledrop, a Unity developed game is now on its way to iPhone, check out its developer dock’s journal here- http://deadpanda.com/journal.php and play the latest build here – http://tumbledrop.com/

Dedicated Unity Developer Magazine Rocks!

Having waited patiently my first 2 issues of Unity Dev mag finally plopped through my letterbox yesterday and as a Unity geek I’m loving seeing dedicated content specific to game development in Unity. Only a small magazine at the moment, its circulation is growing all the time, and hopefully as this grows so will the [...]

Excellent Power of 2 Game Textures

Often i’ll stumble across many sites with images that don’t quite tile or are purely for artworking and its kind of frustrating, so when I discovered gamingtextures.com I was overjoyed to find a site with a ton of useable material and a fantastic interface, check it out now! http://www.gamingtextures.com/

Programming Methodology Lecture Series

From Stanford University, this series of videos on youtube will get you started in your approach to ideal programming methodology, start out with this one and work through the series, you’re bound to find enlightenment! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkMDCCdjyW8

Unity 2.5 About to hit for Mac & Windows

The latest version of Unity is about to arrive, now with a version on PC. With an overhauled interface and fantastic new features, as well as seamless workflow between both platforms. Having worked with the beta through its various phases, I can confirm that its definitely shaping up, and I’ve certainly done my best to [...]

Papervision maestro says Adobe should buy into Unity

http://rockonflash.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/unity3d-ms-adobe-should-buy-them/ Papervision expert John Grden is very excited about the potential of Unity 3D for delivered web 3D games, so much so he urges Adobe to buy them, follow the link above!

LU3D Launches

Welcome to Learn Unity 3D. Run by tutor & game developer Will Goldstone and a dedicated crew of other Unity enthusiasts we aim to help you get involved with learning 3D game development with game engine, Unity. Visit www.unity3d.com