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, free-to-play, looking for publisher, source code / complete project license, exclusive or non-exclusive etc). On the other side ideally there should be companies like game portals, publishers, ad agencies looking for re-branded games to sell to their customers, download portals and alike (you get the point) that actively look for content to license. This group tries to be the place for the speed dating.”

Go get involved now and push your hard work to the limit of it’s potential!

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3104628&trk=hb_side_g

Ever been frustrated by positioning in Unity? wanted to take the position of one object and apply it to another but had to parent, reset and unparent to achieve this seemingly simple task? Worry no longer!

Thanks to the fine work of Seth Illgard you can now use his Transform Utilities script  to give you access to a new area of the Inspector to copy  paste positions / align objects and more – even randomizing positions for when multiples objects seem too ‘arranged’!

Big thanks to Seth for his hard work, go grab the utility at his site and leave him a comment to say thanks!

http://www.blog.silentkraken.com/2010/02/06/transformutilities/

Ever spent hours trawling the multiplous posts on the forum, gazed bemusedly at the documentation only to be left with a feeling of… wha? Well Unity Technologies have the answers for you, in the form of Unity Answers. Go to answers.unity3d.com and you’ll find that most likely, someone has already asked for what you’re after.

This is the perfect complement to the Unifycommunity.com/wiki which features example scripts aplenty. Whilst this is useful, the advantage with Unity Answers is the ability to comment and add to each dialogue. So why am I telling you this now? well I get lots of emails from UGDE readers asking various development queries and many of them haven’t heard of Unity Answers, so really it needs as much promotion as possible in my mind, as its awesome!

This awesome set of stock icons from Glyphish is available for all you Unity iPhone folks, head over to their site and be sure to drop them a mail saying thanks for this excellent set!

http://glyphish.com/

Emil Johansen, aka AngryAnt, has been working for some time on his ‘Path’ pathfinding AI system for Unity. A remarkable piece of work, Emil has even gone so far as to make a complete video tutorial on the system, explaining its usage and how it works. A big thanks goes out to him for this amazing contribution to the Unity community, as this system is provided free – see the license on his site for more information.

Visit the Project page.

Watch the Video Tutorial direct.

Stumbled accross this on the web – very useful full vector based file of every part of the current iPhone interface, including the device itself. Really useful for iPhone developers who want to feature the device, or even simply to design their GUIs to fit with those of the existing operating system. The file can be downloaded and opened in Illustrator to be picked apart at your leisure, massive thanks to Mercury Interactive for providing this to the public.

http://www.mercuryintermedia.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/iphone-ui-vector-elements

For those of you new to Unity, you may be interested to know about the Unity feedback forum. An official resource that acts as a voting system, digg style, for Unity developers to vote for their next most wanted addition / change / fix to be included in the next release of Unity.

Whilst this is not a direct cause and effect – the UT team of course has its own roadmap (here) but this acts as more of a community based focus of attention – allowing you as a developer to see what others are hoping for in the future, and have your say too, good work UT!

http://feedback.unity3d.com/pages/unity

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 to make a ‘fun’ and simple game in Unity, its fantastic, and packed with insights that every developer should take time to consider when planning a new project.

Heres the Resources bundle -

http://delicious.com/diamondtearz/bundle:Unity3D

And here is the Documentary -

or visit here -

http://diamondtearz.org/blog/2009/03/18/how-to-make-games-fun-unity-3d-game-documentary/

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 magazine. Still at $45 dollars for a subscription I think its well worth it, check it out here -

https://www.unitydeveloper.com/shop/home.php

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/