Casual and Social Games with Unity
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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.
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Casual and Social Games with Unity
- 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! twitter.com/tadej linkedin.com/in/tadejgregorcic www.facebook.com/tadej tadej@motiviti.com Buzz: google.com/profiles/tadej.gregorcic