[casual_games] Torque? Popcap? Or DIY?

[Tom Higgins]

All,


> Unity has always struck me as odd.  The website looks very slick,  

> it has the emphasis that it's games can be played on Mac or  

> Windows, and supports C# scripting, yet the editor is Mac only.  It  

> seems like the only thing that would do is limit the developer  

> audience.


The Mac-only nature of our tool is rooted in company history, we were  
born a game dev company rolling our own engine and the internal  
platform of choice was the Mac. Over time the choice was made to be a  
tool vendor and not a game company and so Unity, the dev tool, was  
born on the Mac. With the 2.0 release we've now added key run-time  
functionality which we felt was more important than a Windows IDE We  
fully recognize that being Mac-only limits our overall growth and as  
such a Windows IDE is on the road-map as a high-priority work item.  
If you're interested in Unity then please feel free to drop me a line  
off-list or visit our site (URL in signature). Or we can discuss it  
here if y'all want to ask questions, I don't want to turn this into  
an unsolicited sales-pitch opportunity.


Cheers,
Tom Higgins | Product Evangelist | http://unity3d.com

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