Comments on: Unity3D: beyond games

By: bartek drozdz

bartek drozdz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:20 +0000

Thanks guys! I’m happy to see others are thinking this way too.

@Jeff Thanks, this post is great! I really dig the concept of “gamification”

By: Dansl

Dansl — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:10:47 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I just recently took some time to learn Unity3D, and I’m a huge fan! Not only target games, but applications, tools, or even interactive websites. :)

By: Karl Knocking

Karl Knocking — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:05:06 +0000

Yeah, the new version of Unity really looks promising.. but I think the penetration is still an issue. The first users who have the Unity plugin installed will be the gamers. Let’s hope that it will spread from there.

By: peter kaptein

peter kaptein — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:07:21 +0000

Super post.

I fully agree with your research-direction regarding dynamic generation of visuals with content in Unity. Will certainly follow your progress

Of course we will get the same kind of response with Unity at some point when “HTML 5.2″ comes out as we had with Flash. “It is not open” (big smirk on my face)

By: Devin Reimer

Devin Reimer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:28:48 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one what feels this way. I’ve been talking a lot lately about Unity not being just a game development tool. I use the example that Flash was created as an animation tool and I now I use it for RIA development. If a good platform exists people will find cool things to do with it.
I am looking forward to your examples on draw vectors (lines, shapes, etc) in Unity as it is something I’ve been looking into myself.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:14:37 +0000

I agree Bartek, that Unity could be much more than just games. I love the software and the possibilities, but I don’t see myself as a game developer either…

David Helgason, CEO of Unity, calls this gamification. He has a blog post about it here:
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/01/14/2010-trends/

Looking forward to the answers on your questions :).

By: Milan Orszagh (TheAustrianGuy)

Milan Orszagh (TheAustrianGuy) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:10:06 +0000

I hope we’ll get some Unity-love spread over the web so that it becomes as common as it gets (penetration)!
Very nice post Bartek and looking forward to see the solutions :)

By: C4RL05

C4RL05 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:56:41 +0000

Great post Bartek, I can’t agree more. The benefits of interactive 3D are not just for games, but for all kind of applications, mainly in the visualisation to navigation areas.