[casual_games] Is Everyone going to ABANDON FLASH for UNITY3D?

[oscar is oscar]

^_^

Thanks Tom. Its nice to see someone speak honestly about their product...
even with an honest bias. ;)

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Tom Higgins <tom at unity3d.com> wrote:


> Sorry to be late to the game here but I was out ill last week. I'd just

> like to offer some quick thoughts:

>

> 1. It's not about "abandoning" one tool for another, neither Flash nor

> Unity solve all problems so keep them both in your arsenal and apply the

> right tool for the job in question.

>

> 2. Unity can be used for 2D work as well as 3D, we'll be fleshing out new

> features to facilitate that in the 3.x family (3.0 soon to be released!).

>

> 3. Yes, our install base penetration is in the 'few percent' range (roughly

> 30M installs out there now, 2-2.5M more per month being added), but we see

> higher success rates than that on actual content pages. We've seen numbers

> as high as 60-80%, that being the percent of people hitting a content page

> that actually reach/play the content. So some have the player, many others

> do not and are willing to do the install, but again they tend to be

> content-motivated.

>

> 4. In the 3.0 release we're vastly improving the install experience for

> Windows users (Mac work still under way but Win is still the dominant share)

> to bring it to a true one-click install, lowering the barrier even more.

>

> 5. Agreed, lots to be done for anyone that feels they want to "replace

> Flash", but that's not our mission statement nor our explicit goal.

>

>

> Ok, just wanted to get that off my chest as a biased member of this list.

> :)

>

>

> Tom Higgins

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