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London Southbank University, April 25th 2012 marked the 1 year anniversary of London Unity Usergroup. A celebration complete with free t-shirts, cupcakes, book giveaways (pictured right) and a great talk from game developer Richard Fine – the evening was a great success with over 60 attendees from various industries. The only slight hitch was the…

After GDC, we took some time to spread our wings outside of the entertainment space to exhibit at industry events for military training, and virtual reality. To our delight, Unity received non-stop interest at both the Defense GameTech Users and Laval Virtual International Meeting on Virtual Reality conferences. Our booth at GameTech, and co-booth at…

I love game jams, there is something so incredible about setting out on a quest to craft a game with a tight deadline that can really push creativity in very interesting ways. If done right, its also possible to create a new gameplay mechanic that is not only original but is incredibly fun. Now that…

Thursday 29th March 2012 saw the tenth London Unity Usergroup, and a fantastic talk by Tom Betts. Tom specialises in procedural and generative development, and his talk is described as below – Procedural / Generative / Modular – Grow Yourself a Game When programmer art sucks and real artists do everything with ten million polys,…

Lot’s of news around Flash today! Let’s get started: We’re officially collaborating with Adobe to make Unity and Flash work great together We are committed to building the best tool there is to create content for the Flash platform, and are doing it with Adobe’s support and blessing to make the best product possible. You…

Here at Unity, we want to offer you the smoothest experience for making fantastic games. One of the biggest parts of our job is ensuring that Unity is a highly performant platform for you to deploy to mobile devices, but when it comes to getting the best performance out of your games – that’s where…

Game Developers Conference 2012, San Francisco was the biggest show for Unity to date. Showcasing the exciting new features of Unity 3.5, and previewing the forthcoming advanced character animation technology, developers visiting the Unity booth were treated to a host of Unity games, tech demos, and partner talks. Top of the list this GDC was…

A few months ago, we got to see ‘Super Spring Break Speed Boat Hero SD’ in a talk by Russ Morris and George Buckingham from PLA studios, an asynchronous multiplier game for web browsers. This month sees the return of the game, with a streamlined name and on running on iOS devices. Russ discusses the…

  UPDATED! The above video is the updated version from 19th February 2012. UPDATE II Please ensure that when submitting your content, you have ‘Standalone’ as the chosen platform under File > Build Settings. Some of you have gotten in touch with us, asking for a tutorial on what is required to submit your content…

January 25th 2012, London Southbank University was host to the monthly London Unity usergroup. Organisers Russ Morris and Jasper Stocker were on hand to introduce a series of talks relating to entries to the Flash-in-a-Flash contest that was held by Unity over christmas to make a game in two weeks using the public preview of…

The recently released Unity Developer Preview is jam-packed with new features. Among the most exciting of these features are previews of two new export options for publishing to the web: Google Native Client and Flash. In addition to leveraging users’ already-installed software to get them into your games even faster, these platforms will allow Unity…

When creating compelling video game levels, the idiom ‘God is in the Details’ couldn’t be more true. Detail in your world design is a sign of artistry and aptitude that motivates players to invest interest (and money!) in your game. Often we find that the lush and detailed worlds themselves are as much the star…

November 24th 2011, London Southbank University is host to the monthly London Usergroup. In this session, Will Goldstone and Christopher Pope gave a preview of Unity 3.5, and some of the features that could be expected. As many of these were under wraps, this talk was not recorded. However, the main talk of the evening,…

Our good friends at Massive Black, who include some of the most accomplished and talented artists in the industry, have invited Unity to participate in their annual workshop! Unity artist reps Joe Robins and Roald Hoyer-Hansen will be on hand to dispense knowledge to help attending artists get the most out of the Unity tools…

The London Unity Usergroup had its fifth and sixth events within the last 6 weeks (due to the former being delayed after the london riots), and I was there as always to capture the talks and show you what goes on at the meetups. At MeetUp 5, Russ Morris and his colleague George showed off…

This post will show you how to create water with a custom mesh, adjust the settings and gain some artist insight into making water look nice. To keep up to date with the latest tech this post will primarily concentrate on new Pro water stuff, but later on there are some general tips which should…

Unite has just flown by in a complete blur, as it always does. The Unity staff are heading their different ways, all across the world to get back to making more awesome tech. For me personally its been an amazing ride to see the evolution of the conference and the level that we have reached…

So day two of Unite 11 has come to a close. At the time of writing I’ve just got home from the Unite Party, it was really cool and I had a great time talking to a few of the many, many attendees. At the party I met people who were working on projects for…

Many people were asking for slides from yesterdays “SHADOWGUN: rendering techniques and optimization challenges” talk, so here it is: SHADOWGUN at Unite’11 slides. And sorry for poor projector image.

So the first day of Unite 2011 is coming to an end. It really has been a record breaking start to proceedings with 1,200 registered attendees with 41 sessions and 70 speakers. Certainly a long way from the first ever Unite which had only 70 attendees and again almost doubling in size compared to last…