Unity Technologies Blog

With such a rapidly growing community and user base behind Unity it's become increasingly difficult to keep tabs on all the developer blogs, cool content, all the new 3rd party tutorial and learning sites and all the new community-focused forums/social networking groups that are popping up. To help keep tabs ...

By now many folks are aware of the fact that Will Goldstone has written a book about Unity, it's called Unity Game Development Essentials and it's being published by Packt Publishing. Early on Will and his publisher graciously shared PDF copies with folks, including everyone on the Unity Community Forums. ...

This past weekend I traveled down to Atlanta, Georgia to speak at SIEGE 2009 (Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo). During my trip I not only got to meet a number of local developers at the conference and our dinner out, but I was also lucky enough to meet Manny ...

We see new games being made with Unity at an ever increasing rate. A lot of them get picked up by the gaming media thanks to the sprawling creativity of our users - others don't get noticed as much as they deserve. Unity makes game development accessible to a broad audience, ...

Here we are again, putting the final touches on the latest and greatest release of Unity -- version 2.6. The team is already amazed at how many new games are being made today! They're being rolled out so quickly that we can't always keep up. So to help us make ...

GamesIndustry.biz's Phil Elliott talks to Unity CCO Nicholas Francis about iPhone development and the growth of Unity Technologies in this interview entitled United We Stand.

Thanks to you guys, having an iPhone game made with Unity topping iPhone chart sales is no surprise to anyone. But do you know that there were simultaneously 3 games in TOP100 ALL apps at the beginning of the last week? Now even better - at least* 5 games made with Unity ...

ShogunGamer's Corey Rollins did a great interview with EA Tiburon's Greg Rinaldi about his team's experience using Unity to create Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online. Using Unity 3D allowed us to have a much more efficient budget, team size and timeline than we would have had if we’d decided to build our ...

Just a quick announcement to say that our users have organized a gathering of Unity developers in downtown Austin at 8pm tonight (Thursday) at the Driskill Hotel Bar (map).

We're happy to announce that tickets to this year's Unite '09 conference are now on sale! This year's event is a bit different than the prior two years as there is now an optional lead-in day of classes that folks can attend. The conference runs Tuesday to Friday, October 27th ...

This blog post is written by Ben Throop who has been working on a Detonator framework to generate great-looking explosions in Unity games. The project was one of the four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code and the first to be wrapped up and released. Explosions ...

A group of us are here in Austin TX representing Unity at the Game Developers Conference Austin. The show floor just closed for the day and I wanted to give a status report of the events thus far before heading off to dinner. We've got a great presence on this year's ...

So, most of you have probably heard the news: Apple is going to release Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" this Friday. This release will give Mac users plenty of new feature goodness and new technologies to play with, and brings a lot of changes under the hood. Unfortunately, I ...

Today is very exciting for us because we've just released a much anticipated update to our iPhone development platform -- Unity iPhone 1.5. Some of the highlights from this major point release include: Significant Performance Boosts Up to 3x faster than 1.0.3. Performance critical paths rewritten to take advantage of VFP coprocessor, animation skinning ...

This blog post is written by Ben Throop who is working on a Detonator framework to generate great-looking explosions in Unity games. The project is one of four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code. We're just 9 days away from the August 31 deadline so it's ...

This blog post is written by Michał Mandrysz who is working on support for External Lightmapping in Unity. The project is one of four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code. What's lightmapping? If you're not familiar with the terms "baking" and "lightmapping" then let me introduce them ...

This blog post is written by Sándor Moldán who is working on a set of Terrain Erosion tools for Unity. The project is one of four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code. The objective of this Unity Summer of Code project was to develop a toolset ...

This blog post is written by Matthew Miner who is working on a cutscene editor for Unity. The cutscene editor is one of four selected projects that were selected for the Unity Summer of Code. As described in an earlier blog post, the Cutscene Editor is a tool for creating realtime ...

We have a ton of people at Unity who have been or are involved in the demoscene. Assembly is one of the largest demoscene parties, and this year we were sponsoring the event, sent in some folks there and had a couple of seminar presentations. Our presentations were not directly ...

Submissions for the 2009 Unity Awards are now open! Our goal is to honor the very best content being made in Unity. If you've been working hard on a project, now is you chance to earn some recognition–and some prize money–for your efforts! Check out the official contest information and rules ...