[casual_games] Unity 3D

[Iestyn Lloyd]

Yeah, lack of Scene merge is quite a pain..

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Grant Shonkwiler <gshonk at gmail.com> wrote:


> We use it here at Megatouch Games. We love it, the biggest problem we are

> having is with the source control (Asset Server) it doesn't really want to

> play well with more than one or two people working on a game. Also there is

> no scene merge, hopefully they will fix this soon because it is crippling if

> you are trying to make a project with a big team.

>

> Let me know if anyone has found a work around for this, we just all have

> our own sandboxes in each project and hand merge stuff.

>

> Grant Shonkwiler

>

>

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Jeff Murray <jeff at psychicparrotgames.com

> > wrote:

>

>> Hey iestyn,

>>

>> I've been using Unity for 3 years now and I think it's an incredible

>> engine. I've produced browser-based games, desktop apps for Mac and PC and

>> iPhone games (if you have an iphone, I built the skateboarding game MikeV:

>> Do or Die with Unity iPhone).

>>

>> Up until Unity 3, its biggest failing was not having a debugger ... since

>> that's now a part of Unity 3, in my opinion, the biggest failing right now

>> is that it doesn't exactly handle 2d (UI included) very well. Sure, you can

>> make 2d games and UI but there's no dedicated 2d framework to make it easier

>> on the devs. It's always 3d pretending to be 2d, if you know what I mean.

>> There were plans to have a fast 2d framework built in to Unity 3, but it

>> didn't make it in. That's my only major gripe, tbh.

>>

>> The amount of positives totally outweigh the negatives. I get tempted to

>> check out other engines every once in a while - and I do - but I always end

>> up coming back to Unity.

>>

>> Cheers!

>> Jeff.

>>

>>

>>

>> On 2010-08-26, at 8:36 AM, Iestyn Lloyd wrote:

>>

>> Hi List,

>>

>> How many people here are using Unity for game dev? I've made a couple of

>> small web games now, and started making an iPhone/iPad/Android game, and I'm

>> extremely impressed. The beta of Unity 3 is absolutely *amazing*...

>>

>> Anyone care to share their thoughts on Unity?

>>

>> Cheers,

>>

>> iestyn

>>

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