Unity Engine Allows for Cross-Platform Online Gaming

[Goronmon]

Over at this year's Game Developers Conference BigPoint, a developer who makes online browser-based games, used the the Unity game engine to show off a demo exhibiting the possibilities of online games that work across platforms.

"This is an important and historic opportunity for the online gaming industry," explains Heiko Hubertz, CEO and founder of Bigpoint. "We believe the future of gaming exists in a world without borders and platform boundaries and in real-time. Bigpoint is excited to show the industry how it will unify the gameplay experience for gamers across all the devices they use to play our games."

This type of framework would allow for online games where the players could be sitting at their computer and play with and against people using a smartphone. It will be very interesting to see what kind of multi-player experiences they can come up that can work from such different devices.

Source: BigPoint

[jeffbax]

Unity has been growing by leaps and bounds lately, glad to see this I wonder how much of Valve's decision to hit the Mac was by foreseeing mid-range middleware competition from Unity

[Serapth]

Originally Posted by jeffbax

Unity has been growing by leaps and bounds lately, glad to see this I wonder how much of Valve's decision to hit the Mac was by foreseeing mid-range middleware competition from Unity

Unity has been growing by leaps and bounds lately because:

1- They ported to Windows.
2- They offer(ed) a well priced functional iPhone toolkit.

Since then a few things have changed. The iPhone aspect became a dedicated product and got more expensive. Second, Unity itself became free for freeware games, which should be huge for growing their community.


All told, its a great product.