News: Unity is Coming to iPhone
The Unity engine, used for games such as Flashbang Studios' Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and the upcoming Jetpack Brontosaurus (due out later this month), will soon include support for the iPhone platform. From the press release:
"Unity Technologies, a 3D game development tool provider for creating console-quality games for the desktop and Web, today announced that the company will support game development for the popular iPhone platform."
"The Unity engine is the core technology that facilitates visually rich, engaging 3D game play, whether it's on a traditional desktop, or on the Web at major gaming sites like shockwave.com, or now on the world's leading mobile device - the iPhone."
"With iPhone support, Unity is poised to become the single source for game developers who want to create best-of-breed, 3D-quality games that can be easily and quickly ported to all platforms, including consoles, devices, PC/Mac, and now, the iPhone," said David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies. "Specifically, Unity's support of iPhone addresses the developer's need to create more and better mobile/portable games that support the consumers 'on-the-go' lifestyle."
Comments
Oh boy, more software coming to the most overpriced and pretentious phone!
Posted by: PoisonedV | April 2, 2008 1:43 PM
"All platforms," huh? Might be a slight exaggeration there.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 2, 2008 2:20 PM
It's the best phone. Keep drinking that hatorade, man.
Posted by: David Hellman | April 2, 2008 6:56 PM
Unity looks interesting, but I'm a little surprised that they consider iPhone support a higher priority than making their editor run on Windows.
Posted by: drew | April 2, 2008 7:28 PM
Popular?.
Cold head, iphone can be cool and will support opengl with a decent speed but we cannot talk about a popular phone with a pretty limited market, it's not the cellphone more sold on 2007 but the more overhyped and overpublished, for comparison there are the three times more nokia n95 rather iphone (not counting n95 8gb, n93 and many other nokia s60 3rd compatible devices).
Posted by: Magallanes | April 2, 2008 8:02 PM
""All platforms," huh? Might be a slight exaggeration there."
All the platforms that matter.
Posted by: Patrick | April 2, 2008 11:51 PM
Quite amazing how little some people know... Anyways iPhone=iPod Touch. So if you want these games for cheap then get the iPod Touch rather than write a sob story about a good quality, expensive phone.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 3, 2008 1:58 AM
Unity is awesome. If you develop games, or want to, check it out.
Posted by: randy edmodns | April 3, 2008 6:29 PM
eh!!! that is sucks
Posted by: Astro | April 3, 2008 7:09 PM
Anonymous: "Quite amazing how little some people know..." We ll know this, yes, its still a waste of time putting it on there as the iPhone was not the first of its kind, its not the best of its kind, its not the cheapest of its kind, and it doesn't have the most 'gamers'.
Also, the iPhone is not 'good quality' if you look at the price point
Posted by: PoisonedV | April 3, 2008 10:22 PM
I see it as a 16gb iPod Touch with phone innards, which doesn't cost much more where I'm from. The contract also has unlimited internet, adding that to any of the similar minutes&text contracts and you even save money.
If the iPhone and iPod touch weren't so good why are devs stumbling over each other showing us what they can do? I don't recall Nokia ever giving this level of attraction to devs.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 4, 2008 12:41 AM
And not good Quality? a metal and glass phone thats more robust than any other phone I've seen. an almost perfect and high DPI screen. OS that doesnt crash. the best consumer level scratch resistant coated glass. Not good quality lul
Posted by: Anonymous | April 4, 2008 12:43 AM
The price criticism makes me laugh too. It's only more than other phones because most phones are discounted by their carriers. Apple broke a lot of rules of the manufacturer-carrier relationship. The phone remains full price, but they got AT&T to implement Visual Voicemail -- which is probably the best argument for iPhone just as a phone. It's a feature that should have been in every phone for years. That it wasn't, and still isn't, is an appalling joke.
Add an iPod, a beautiful wide screen, an amazing web browser, and a gorgeous multi-touch interface with integrated applications ... yes, it's worth the price, you fools.
I can quickly accept that as clever, useful and elegant as it appears to me, it's not to everyone's taste. But why do I so rarely hear a moderate, well-reasoned critique? When someone criticizes the iPhone, it's always hysterical and dismissive. I just can't take you guys seriously.
I'm only motivated to respond because the iPhone is so cool and brings me so much satisfaction every day. I have other gadgets I enjoy, but I'm not in the habit of defending them. They're just cool gadgets. The iPhone is a beautiful gadget.
Posted by: David Hellman | April 4, 2008 6:01 PM
In after blind apple fanboys
Posted by: PoisonedV | April 8, 2008 8:45 AM