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Archive for June, 2010

Unity 3.0 Audio Features Previewed

Learn Unity 3D’s own Will Goldstone previews some more of the new features in Unity 3.0. This time its audio, and you’ll get a sneak peek at the new Scene Audio Preview feature, Custom Rolloff Curves, Audio Reverb Zones, Audio Effects and Mod file support. Watch it embedded below or go video on vimeo here

Sell Unity Assets on ActiveDen

ActiveDen, part of the fantastic Envato network, have opened up their asset selling portal to assets for Unity developers. If you’re familiar with the Tuts sites (PSDTuts.com, Nettuts.com and so on then you’ll already have seen the professional quality of the Envato network at play already. Now with the chance to sell your assets you’ll [...]

HelloEnjoy does it for Peugeot

A while back we showcased HelloEnjoy’s (Carlos Ulloa) Mini driving Unity showcase – Now as predicted a commercial car manufacturer – Peugeot to be precise – has picked up on this and commissioned Carlos & co to make just such a thing for their new model, the RCZ. Take a look and take it for [...]

CNN Uses Unity for Oil Spill Visualisation

CNN are using Unity to visual the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Allowing its readers to look at the surface or submerge to the seabed and look at what is happening, it is fascinating to see Unity being used in a non-gaming context. Whilst this is certainly going to be great for Unity being picked up [...]

Cordy – Unity Platform Beauty

Stumbled across this fantastic little platformer from SilverTree media. Clearly influenced by games like Little Big Planet, this is definitely one of the slickest Unity presentations I’ve seen on the web of late, great work! Go have some fun here – http://www.cordythegame.com/ And check out SilverTree here – http://www.silvertreemedia.com/

Awesome Game Art Tips

Found some fantastic looking tutorials on painting textures for games by the very talented Sky at http://www.smileybones.com/, go take a look and enjoy the gorgeous artwork, and handy tutorials, cheers!

Unity Android Nexus One Giveaway

Those wishing to get into android game development with Unity will be overjoyed to find out that if they pre-order the license and are in the first 500 customers to do so, they’ll also be receiving a free unlocked Nexus One phone handset to get started with. Massive props to Unity Technologies (yes, again) for [...]

Space Paranoids Tron Game

As part of the viral push for the new Tron game, they have released a remake of the game seen in the original Tron film – ‘Space Paranoids’ – an awesome Battlezone-esque tank based shooter made entirely in Unity – what more could you ask for? check it out here – http://www.spaceparanoidsonline.com/ The game is [...]

Learning And Teaching Unity

A slight digression from the usual Unity related stuff on the site, so apologies! As part of a set of ongoing research into the best way to teach Unity, I’d like to hear from you. If you use Unity in any way, please take part in this short survey, it shouldn’t take any more than [...]

Unity 3 Asset Management Preview

Learn Unity 3D’s own Will Goldstone previews some of the upcoming features in the new release of Unity 3.0. Various new Asset Management features such as searchable asset window, searchable highlighting scene view and asset labelling (think online tagging to match assets together) are all shown off in this video, go watch now on Vimeo.com [...]

Tom Higgins Droidcon Interview

Stumbled across this really nice informal interview with Tom Higgins, Unity’s Product Evangelist (and thoroughly cool dude, I can attest!) talking about the current state of the toolset, and where Unity are looking to expand to. Tom also discusses the new publishing options such as Android etc and reveals some insights into the ethics of [...]

DimeRocker Unity Social Network Portal

DimeRocker is a Vancouver based Unity portal to help you launch your games on social networking sites. If you’re looking for an audience for your game, what better place to look than on social networks such as Facebook, which already has millions of active users already engaged in other games made in Unity and Flash. [...]

Unity is 5 Today, Happy Birthday!

Wishing everyone at Unity Technologies a Happy 5th Birthday. Its been an amazing 5 years of progress, from humble beginnings as OTEE I’ve really enjoyed watching UT grow into the powerful innovative ‘powerhouse’ (yeah I went there!) it is today. A Toast! http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28852/170000_Devs_Using_Unity_At_Fifth_Anniversary.php

Unity and LinkedIn – Get Promotional!

Big congrats to Martin Schultz, stalwart of the Unity community for creating this group on work networking site LinkedIn, in Martin’s words – “As developer you write a short description of the game + a few links to Youtube and/or a playable demo and what kind of license is available for the game (ad rev-share, [...]