Some pretty big news today as Unity, the company behind the Unity3D game engine which is extremely popular to use because of its cross-platform capabilities, has released their first game under their new publishing brand called Unity Games. This will be the label that Unity will be using to publishing games onto Google Play and their first release happens to be a game called Gears which was made by Crescent Moon Games.
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If you happen to be a game developer who uses Unity3D to make your games and have been contemplating adding Google’s new Google Play Games service to your current and future titles, you’ll be happy to know that a developer in the Unity3D community has created a plug-in to make it a little bit easier to integrate Google’s service into your games.
GDC 2013 has just started and Qualcomm has announced that the company has teamed up with Unity, the makers of the Unity3D engine, in a development partnership which brings to the table better optimization for Qualcomm Snapdragon-based devices for developers when making their games using the Unity3D engine.
Amazon has release new plug-ins for the Unity3D engine which will allow developers to easily integrate Amazon’s in-app purchasing and Amazon’s GameCircle APIs into games being developed using the Unity engine. While this was possible already, it certainly was a lot harder and took a lot more time to integrate these features into Unity built games that were slated for release onto Amazon’s AppStore.
Facebook has a lot of games with a large portion of them probably being decent while a select few are actually really high quality games. One such game, which is also available to play outside of Facebook as a browser-based title is a futuristic FPS game built using Unity3D called Uberstrike.
There is a new mobile games published jumping onto the scene and they are not just sticking with iOS but multiple platforms including Android. One such title, built using Unity3D, is a third-person shooter called M.U.S.E which is already being compared to Madfinger Games upcoming hit shooter, Shadowgun.
While not being a huge fan of Snake inspired games, there are a couple out there that are really enjoyable to play such as Mini Army by OrangePixel and now this little hidden gem called apzOrb. Built using Unity3D, apzOrb is actually a refreshing take on the classic game Snake.
Unity Technologies, developers of the Unity3D engine that makes a lot of the great games on Android such as Samurai II: Vengeance or Madfingers upcoming game Shadowgun, released a demo of a game called Angry Bots that you may remember seeing us play with during GDC 2011.
Unity3D expands the first wave of games for the Xperia Play with two new additions to the line-up
Unity3D and their business unit, Union, announced a few games that would be available at the time of launch of the Xperia Play located in the Play store. Unity3D, however, decided to tack on a couple more titles for the first wave of games that will be available at the time of launch for the Xperia Play.
[Updated] Like Unity3D developed games for Android but only seen/played a couple? Here’s a list!
Unity3D is one of the more prominent game engines being used for game development including mobile gaming. Recently Unity3D announced a set of tools dedicated to Android game development both regarding creating new games and porting your existing games onto the Android platform. You might be surprised at what games use Unity3D!