An overview of Unity and its role in casual and social game development. Also touches upon WebGL and the direction the 3d web is taking.

1. Casual & Social Games
with Unity
Tadej Gregorčič

2. Agenda
• Who
• Basic concepts
• 3D web
• Unity overview
• Demos
• Unity web integration
• Game Networking
• iPhone, Wii
• Publishing

3. Tadej
• Software developer for 10 years
• Started Motiviti to build casual games
• Tech & Creative director
• Game development & design
• Dev background: real-time gfx, web

4. Casual Games?
• Casual vs. Core
• Different market (not just young males)
• Shorter play bursts (max 15 minutes at a time)
• Can usually afford gameplay innovation

5. Social Games?
• Facebook, Myspace, etc.
• Farmville (70M monthly active users)
• Proven monetization tactics
• + casual

6. The web & rich media

7. “3D” in a browser

8. Real open browser 3D

9. Real open browser 3D
• HTML5 Canvas
• Standards
• Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera
• The proper way of doing it

10. 3 problems
• We are not quite there yet
• The market is ready for online 3D games now
• We still need an engine on top of OGL

11. 3 problems
But here are 2 links just in case ;)
JS 3D engine: www.ambiera.com/copperlicht/index.html
Official WebGL site: www.khronos.org/webgl/

12. Other contenders
• Google O3D
• Torque
• Adobe Shockwave 3D
• Shiva
• ...

13. Unity

14. Unity
• Sequoia backed
• Gamasutra’s Top 5 game companies 2009
• Top iPhone authoring platform
• Great community & support

15. Unity
• Great engine (best this side of $1M)
• Good GUI
• Terrain engine, animations, lighting, shaders
• Ageia PhysX built-in
• Good documentation

16. Unity
• C# or Javascript (or Boo) scripting
• Scripts compiled to .NET DLL files
• 20x faster than traditional JS
• 50% slower than native C++

17. Papervision3d

18. Unity

19. Unity

20. Unity
“Build once, deploy anywhere”
Not really, but close

21. Unity
Demo 1

22. Unity
Demo 2

23. Web deployment
• JS + HTML
• http://code.google.com/p/aquiris-u3dobject/
• The same as integrating Flash
• Flash + Unity

24. External images
(e.g. profile pics)

25. Posting data
(e.g. profile pics)

26. Flash + Unity
Image courtesy of www.paultondeur.com and www.kominski.net

27. Flash + Unity
• Why?
• Take the best of both worlds
• Unity for 3D content
• Flash and HTML for menus, virtual goods

28. Networking
• Realtime state synchronization
• TCP/IP or UDP
• RPC
• Smartfox support
• RTMP/Red5 in the works (3rd party)

29. Porting to iPhone
• Redesign interface / mechanics
• Optimize assets
• Optimize for size (OTA) and speed
• No vertex/pixel shaders
• No terrain engine
• Objective-C integration

30. Toolkit costs
• Pro version is 1099 EUR
• iPhone basic is 299 EUR
• iPhone Pro is 1099 EUR + Unity Pro
• Unity Wii - royalties + Nintendo license

31. Toolkit costs
• BUT!
• Basic version is free
• Start working on a game right away

33. Get your game published
• Do it yourself (FB, Myspace) or -
• dimerocker.com
• cmune.com
• shockwave.com
• bringler.com (regional focus)

35. • We are looking for great developers
• Unity, web, Flash
• Get in touch - jobs@motiviti.com
• tadej@motiviti.com
• Twitter - @motiviti
• www.motiviti.com

36. February 2010
Tadej Gregorčič - www.tadej.eu Hvala!
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