Tadej Gregorčić - Building Casual and Social Games with Unity (IT Showoff)

Casual & Social Games with Unity with Unity
Tadej Gregor č i č

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

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

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

Social Games?
Facebook, Myspace, etc.
Farmville (75M+ monthly active users)
Proven monetization tactics
+ casual

“3D” in a browser

The web & rich media

Real open browser 3D

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

Papervision3d

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

Unity Demo 1

Unity Demo 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Get your game published
Do it yourself (FB, Myspace) or -
musegames.com, wooglie.com
dimerocker.com
cmune.com
shockwave.com
bringler.com

We are looking for great developers
Unity, web, Flash
Get in touch - [email_address]
[email_address] m
Twitter - @motiv iti
www.motiviti.com

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