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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 1, 2011) - Today at GDC,
Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for
games and interactive 3D on the web, iOS, Android, consoles and
beyond, announced that Unity Android and Unity Android Pro are
available for immediate purchase or trial download
at: http://unity3d.com/download.
Because Unity offers a single authoring environment for all of
its supported platforms, developers can port their games, including
their iOS games, to Android with one-click and quickly reach
Android users.
Analyst reports show that more Android smartphones are being
sold worldwide than iPhones. Unity Technologies introduced the
preview release of Unity Pro Android last year and nearly 50 games
have been created since. Among these games one can find such titles
as BATTLE BEARS, Castle Warriors, Doodle Bowling, Drift Mania
Championship and Samurai II: Vengeance, all of which
topped Apple's App Store charts and were easily ported to
Android via Unity Pro Android.
"We're amazed of how easy and fast it was to port our latest iOS
game Stupid Zombies to Android," said Marc Andreoli, Partner at
GameResort LLC. "It took us less than two days to fully port the
game and do some fine tuning."
"We were very impressed with how simple it was to port our
iPhone game Drift Mania Championship to Android. The complete
process took less than a week, which consisted of minor graphic
adjustments and some fine tuning," said Pat Toulouse, President of
Ratrod Studio. "Because of Unity's cross-platform feature, we're
able to reach a much larger audience which multiplies our chances
for continued success. Unity is the ultimate game development swiss
army knife for developers."
"Porting both BATTLE BEARS games from iPhone to Android took us
less than two weeks," said Benjamin Vu, Co-Founder and President of
SkyVu Pictures. "We had to adapt our art a bit and do some fine
tuning but Unity provided us a one-click solution to get to the
Android Market and further extend the reach of our brand to
millions of new users."
"It's awesome to be doing the full launch of our Android
support. Our Pro-only pre-release version has already been a huge
success in its first half year," said Nicholas Francis, Chief
Creative Officer at Unity Technologies. "Now we're doing the full
launch of our product and can't wait to see what kind of amazing
things people will develop. I think getting Unity out to the
Android developer base will vastly improve the range of quality
games on the platform.
Unity for Android's features include:
- Integrated Editor -- Users can deploy a single project to
multiple platforms, including Android, using a one-click solution
that just works. Porting a game from iOS to Android can be as
simple as changing the target platform and clicking "Build."
- Support for upcoming Android devices, including Tegra Tablets
and the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY Smartphone -- Users can be among
the first to benefit from releasing games on the exciting range of
Android-based gaming platforms.
- Highly Optimized Graphics Pipeline for OpenGL ES 2.0 -- Unity
Technologies has been working directly with hardware manufacturers
such as NVIDIA and Qualcomm to get every last bit of performance
out of Android so that users can create stunning games without
worrying about the subtle difference between devices.
- Android Remote -- Developers can use their actual Android phone
as an input device to view and test their game directly within the
authoring tool.
Unity Android is an add-on to the free version of Unity and
available for $400. To get the free, feature-packed Unity, simply
visit: http://unity3d.com/unity/download. Unity Android Pro is
an add-on to Unity Pro and available for $1500. For a full feature
comparison, take a look at:
http://unity3d.com/unity/licenses.
GDC and Unity
GDC is holding the first ever Unity Track so that attendees can
get a crash course on Unity. Unity's next-generation capabilities
will be featured in Unity Technologies' booth #1416. In the booth's
Partner Pavilion, Aquiris Game Studio, Artificial Technology,
Electrotank Inc., Exit Games, Mixamo, Nickelodeon, Noesis
Interactive, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Inc. and Unity Studios will
demonstrate the mind-blowing innovations they created using
Unity.
About Unity Technologies
Unity Technologies is revolutionizing the game industry with
Unity, its award-winning breakthrough development platform. Unity
Technologies has more than 400,000 registered users worldwide --
including Bigpoint, Cartoon Network, Coca-Cola, Disney, Electronic
Arts, LEGO, Microsoft, NASA, Ubisoft, Warner Bros., large and small
studios, indies, students and hobbyists -- all using Unity to
create games and interactive 3D, like training simulations and
medical and architectural visualizations, on the web, mobile,
consoles and beyond. Unity Technologies is aggressively innovating
to expand usability, power and platform reach along with its Asset
Store digital content marketplace and Union game syndication so
that it can deliver on its vision of democratizing interactive 3D
technology. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco
and has development offices worldwide. For more information,
visit: http://unity3d.com.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/unity3d
Twitter: http://twitter.com/unity3d
Media Contacts:
Amber Rowland
pr@unity3d.com
+1 (650) 814-4560
Chris Clarke
pr@unity3d.com
+44 7590 509278
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