Unity Technologies has announced that it will soon be supporting iPhone game development through its Unity game engine.
Unity is a Mac OS X-based integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content for Mac OS X or Windows (with Wii support on the way). Unity presents the developer with a graphical environment in which to author game content. The system uses Ageia’s PhysX physics engine and relies upon OpenGL and Direct3D for graphics and OpenAL for sound.
With iPhone support, Unity is poised to become the single source for game developers who want to create best-of-breed, 3D-quality games that can be easily and quickly ported to all platforms, including consoles, devices, PC/Mac, and now, the iPhone," said David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies. “Specifically, Unity’s support of iPhone addresses the developer’s need to create more and better mobile/portable games that support the consumers ‘on-the-go’ lifestyle."
Unity is being used by a number of game developers and other institutions including: Smashing Ideas, Trigger, Freeverse, Shockwave.com, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Flashbang Studios, ThreeMelons and Skyworks Technologies.
The arrival of any technology that lowers the barrier for software developers to get on-board with game development for the iPhone and iPod touch is surely welcome in our book.
I waited in line for six hours, only to be let into the store to wait in another line for an hour more. The people at the Clarendon, VA store were totally clueless. Most of them were just standing around doing nothing other than laughing and giggling, while the customers sat there patiently. And to make matters worse, almost every Apple employee was condescending and rude. They treated us like we were morons. And to add insult to injury, it turned out that I have a corporate discount from work that I was not even aware of. Once the Mac Geniu....Moron, figured this out, he basically told me to leave and that there was nothing they could do about it. I mean, I know I was sort of in the fault here, but at least be courteous. They probably were having a rough day, but that is no excuse to treat customers standing outside for six hours like complete shit. I will never go inside the Apple Store in Claredon again. Apple and AT&T totally blew this one.
So I went back after talking to AT&T, who said that I never should have been turned away in the first place. Walked right in to the store and had my phone in under 10 minutes. And everyone was real nice this time around. Go figure.
STOKEDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!
@billy: I had a rough time, not knowing I was part of an office AT&T corporate plan so was told that I needed to buy at AT&T store. I opted to start a new plan and take the $175 early-cancellation hit. Apple apparently lets one return an iPhone w/in 30 days w/ no early-cancellation hit, so I will go negotiate with AT&T (god help me) and try to get them to kill the new account and roll the phone together.
But I found the staff felt genuinely sorry for what was happening. I thought this in particular. The people I dealt with were wonderful. I guess we were on different sides of the store. :-)
Hey I was at the Clarendon line too, about 60th! Cool that you were there :D
I was 60-70th in line. When the line was sitting, I was just on the Apple Store side of the walkway that cuts back to the left of Barnes & Nobel.