[link]for those who doubt that big portals will ever use unity?

It seems like there are lots of questionmarks popping up regarding deploying to consoles so maybe i should explain those things a bit more:
As i said regarding consoles one can deploy to 360 with XNA and to Wii (and in a while to more) with unity3D.

The XNA Xbox 360 deployment:
Once one made an XNA game and has a xbox 360 one can buy a creators club membership for 99$ a year from the XBox store. Then one can connect the pc with the 360 and deploy games to it to test em there.
So then you can test your games on the 360, nice, but what next, how to get your games played on the 360 by the masses?
Well, right now you can´t. Only other creators club members can try your game.
Right now the community service part MS is working on is in beta, the idea is that one can submit game and the developer community can review it and if it gets approved then the game gets released to a community area of the XBox live service where usual Xbox 360 owners can download it then.
To be able to sell your game you´d still have to get in contact with MS/Another Xbox publisher and then its about evaluating whether your game is fitting for beeing developed further or right away released as sold Xbox Live Arcade game then.

The unity3D Wii/Wiiware deployment:
You´d develop your game and then either contact Nintendo or another Wii/Wiiware publisher to show them your demo to either have your game released by them or become a licensed wii/wiiware developer to be able to publish the game as commercial game yourself.
You´d probably want to develop a good part of your game running on PC/Mac and then apply to become a licensed developer to get a devkit and that way be able to run your game on Wii like hardware for a good part of the dev cycle.


While one could code on a game made in any technology/language and show that to a console publisher to see if they are interested in helping getting it released on the console both unity and XNA made games are more interesting to MS/Nintendo and other publishers since its less porting work involvedto get the games rolling on the console.

Alright that sounds pretty cool. Not I'm-buying-a-mac-for-this-one-program cool, but pretty damn cool. I hope they'll port it for windows someday. Or can you run Mac programs on Windows somehow like you can run Windows programs on mac?

i heard there are some ways to run mac os on a usual pc but i´m not well informed about that.
The unity guys are also working on a pc version of the ide, they´ll surely announce it publicly once its closer to completion.

Problem is, hackintosh is illegal
For those who say that in the end 3d in unity is nothing better than 3d in director, thats what director developers with tons more experience in 3d have to say about that

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Originally Posted by Necromanthus

Guys,

I have to say it: Hopeless - The Prison has probably the most advanced FPS
game engine on the market (shockwave 3D, browser based).
But no matter what I do, talking about image quality and number of polygons per scene,
it's impossible to compete with this one:
http://unity3d.com/gallery/live-demos/tropical-paradise

Lucky for Adobe, the Unity authoring is still limited to MAC users.

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(Remus knows his stuff, he is the guy who made that , that and that... maybe the best director stuff ever)

That's far, far from even good Director stuff ( Quake is good, the other 2, especially warcraft are bad ).

Maybe he made some of those too, but there are about a dozen games on Miniclip far better than these Director examples.

Anyway, It looks like Unity is better than Director, but so far games are not any better, most of them are worse. It's all hopeless until they release the windows version.

damn those demos are cool. Really makes me think why I'm trying to make something in flash. Oh wait, I don't have a mac :)

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Originally Posted by mr_malee

damn those demos are cool. Really makes me think why I'm trying to make something in flash. Oh wait, I don't have a mac :)

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Wow they sure are, I spent far to long chasing that bird around the tropical map and throwing chairs around the living room.

It'd be interesting to know what the budget is for a unity game, ie do clients understand the increased dev time / costs and are willing to pay that for a relatively new plug-in without the penetration figures of Flash.

I imagine like most new tech, the earlier adopters are taking a financial hit to cement their place in the new market.

Squize.

as usual higher paying cliets who usually also want the higher end content will be more into it, the smaller portals probably not initially.