Eva Wieselgren at the local newspaper Göteborgs Posten was one of the beta testers of Tomten for iPhone. Follow the link below to read her comments on the game (Swedish only):
“Hinner jultomten få ut klapparna i tid? Inte om jag ska styra släden. Min tomte vinglar runt i luften som om han fått alldeles för mycket glögg till lussekatterna.”
On November 3 Volvo Trucks launched the game FH16 which I have worked on as project leader and developer for almost a year now. If you have an Android device, iPhone 4, 4S or iPad 2, make sure you check it out – it’s fun and completely free!
The game was created with the game development engine Unity.
“A video shot on the iPhone 4S”
Lisa Bettany – iPhone 4S Macro Shots
On Friday, August 26, I held a Mobile Trends seminar for over 220 business clients.
The Swedish newspaper Computer Sweden was there and posted an article about the seminar today (Swedish only):
From the Unity Technologies Blog:
Light probes are an advanced technique for lighting dynamic objects and characters with high-quality baked lighting. It is possible to capture incoming direct and bounced lighting within a scene at a number of points – light probes. As a character moves through the scene, nearby probes are picked, interpolated, and the result is then passed to the shader to efficiently light the surface. There it can be sampled per-vertex or per-pixel, if you want to use the normalmap-perturbed normal to do so.
Looks very nice! Light Probes will arrive in Unity 3.5 for mobile devices.
The game development platform Unity has doubled its user base the past 6 months:
“Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for awesome games and interactive 3D on the web, iOS, Android, consoles and beyond, today announced that its registered user base has doubled to more than 500,000 users in just over 6 months; 150,000 of these users are active monthly users representing well over a million hours of game development every month. In addition, installs of the free Unity browser plugin for playing web games have surpassed 60 million.”
In a related press announcement, Game Developer Magazine readers named Unity the #1 game engine they use for traditional and casual games. Read the full story.
I have used Unity myself for almost three years now, and have always believed firmly in the potential of the platform. Congratulations to David Helgason and his crew for the success, you deserve it!
Are you interested in game development for iPhone, iPad and Android devices?
This week I held a seminar at the Scandinavian Developer Conference 2011 with the topic “Game Development with Unity for iOS and Android devices”. The topics of the seminar included:
I filmed the entire seminar, and you can now watch it online:
You can also download the entire presentation as a PDF document. Happy coding!