[casual_games] Question about iphone game development

[Tom Higgins]

All,


> Is unity for 3d games only?


Nope. Sure, it's a "game engine" but folks are already using it for a  
myriad of purposes. We have folks doing casual games, serious games,  
data visualization, training/simulation, architecture visualization,  
etc. We impose no limits on the type of content you can create so feel  
free to use it for whatever non-game purposes you'd like!



> Is it true that Unity apps can only be downloaded over wifi? I heard  

> that using Unity adds 10 megs to the download.


No, that's not strictly true as you can in fact get sub-10MB games and  
thus download them without WiFi. With that in mind your content won't  
be the deepest or most robust in those cases so more often than not  
people go over the 10MB limit and thus induce the need for you to have  
WiFi in order to download them.



> I thought that Unity looked incredible, but I wanted to learn the  

> core iPhone platform before I started developing with something  

> higher level.


Not a bad way to go at all. :)


Cheers,
Tom

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