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Hear the exclusive interview with solo developer Tomas Sala as he discusses the journey in bringing The Falconeer to Xbox Series X – launching today! In our continued Creator Spotlight series, we dive into the Great Ursee with Tomas Sala and The Falconeer. In this stunning open-world aerial combat adventure, The Falconeer puts you in […]

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We recently shared our roadmap plans for 2021. Now we invite you inside Unity to meet some of the teams working towards these goals. In this second post of our new series, we meet the Performance Optimization team. Our Unity 2021 roadmap explains our priorities for next year. We’re committed to updating production-ready features and […]

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Tune in as Halfbrick Studios talks about the making of Fruit Ninja 2 and discusses a decade of slice-and-dice success, including how they cut through the noise to become a top mobile hit.  In our third Creator Spotlight session, Unity welcomes Halfbrick Studios to get all the juicy details on Fruit Ninja 2. Ten years […]

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What happens when real-time 3D technology meets one of the oldest time-honored traditions in public stock exchanges? Learn how Unity transformed an initial public offering (IPO) – typically attended only by a company’s executives – into an employee-centered virtual event celebrated by thousands. When Unity decided to take action to become a public company, it […]

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Unity’s success is grounded in its employees. We are growing rapidly and hiring globally. Read on to know what you can expect during the hiring process and what we’re looking for in a candidate. Unity is growing at an amazing rate, and we want to make sure we do it right. As much as who […]

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The Game Growth program gives indie mobile game developers access to some of the most experienced experts in the industry. Game development poses a mountain of challenges, especially for smaller indie developers. Often, you need to take on multiple roles just to get your game over the finish line. For a small team, it’s unlikely […]

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In the latest addition to our Microgames series, we’re putting digital LEGO® elements in the hands of new users to get them quickly building, customizing, and sharing their first 3D game in less than an hour. We believe the world is a better place with more creators in it. This mission requires making game development […]

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Learn more about Unity Social Impact partners shaping two major initiatives celebrated at the Unity for Humanity Summit. We’re thrilled to be joining forces in our shared commitment to social responsibility. You may already have heard about Unity’s exciting news at the opening of the Unity for Humanity Summit yesterday, and we hope you tune […]

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We’ve created super-discounted mega bundles to showcase a decade of awesome assets – and the killer games creators have made with them. On November 11th, Asset Store turns 10 years old. In that time we’ve grown to over 60,000 assets, with millions of users saving potentially billions of hours. Over 11,000 publishers produce this killer […]

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From Malcolm Gladwell’s keynote on inclusion, storytelling, and new platforms, to the celebration of Unity Social Impact, underpinned by 750,000 Unity common stock, Day 1 of the Summit is a triumph for the growing community of social impact creators. Today, we’re thrilled to kick off the first-ever Unity for Humanity Summit, a free, two-day online […]

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Amplitude Studios breaks down how they managed 100,000 individual game assets while keeping build times down and frame rates high. Unity’s Creator Spotlight series continues with Amplitude, the studio behind the upcoming historical turn-based strategy game Humankind. In the game (which will be published by SEGA) players lead their civilization across six major eras of […]

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The Sounds Hannam Project is an architectural visualization project that digitally created Sounds Hannam, a complex cultural space in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, using High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) in Unity. This project offers interactive content that lets you virtually explore the Sounds Hannam cultural space by navigating with a mouse and a keyboard. You can […]

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The Query system in Unity MARS simplifies the creation of augmented reality (AR) experiences that adapt to the real world around them. Based on constraints that you specify, it finds a way to lay out the scene in a given environment. Read on to learn more about how it works. We designed Unity MARS to […]

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Watch the behind-the-scenes interview with Cinder Cone, creators of Skeleton Crew. Beta kicking off October 29 and we have keys for you!  Today Unity is thrilled to premiere our Creator Spotlight series with an in-depth conversation with  Cinder Cone, the studio behind the highly anticipated upcoming gothic platformer Skeleton Crew. Set against the backdrop of […]

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Game Growth Program is an accelerator program for free-to-play indie games on mobile. By partnering with Unity, select indie developers get access to awesome tools plus a dedicated team of game operations experts. Unity covers the costs of acquiring new players and optimizing your game, and we share the revenue 50/50. Apply now on the […]

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Check out the new sessions in our free live learning series. Unity educators can find actionable insights and inspiration to arm their students with the skills to lead the real-time 3D revolution. Register for Unity Educators Live and read on for all the details! At the start of September Unity launched Educators Live, which saw educators […]

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Powered by NVIDIA GPUs, Unity ArtEngine’s AI has simplified workflow, and helped create vMaterials – a free library of over 2,000 high-quality real-world materials.  Creating realistic materials can be a time-consuming process. Even when working from high-quality references, it can take days of work to achieve impressive results. So when a team at NVIDIA was […]

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The Made with Unity title, The Falconeer, will be launching exclusively on the Xbox family of devices, including Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and PC on November 10, 2020. We talked with the game’s sole creator, Tomas Sala, who shares details on his development experience, what he discovered while building a game for the […]

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Unity Safe Mode is available in Unity 2020.2 beta. This improves how Unity behaves when opening a project that has script compilation errors. If there are compilation errors at Editor startup, you will be prompted to enter Safe Mode. This mode is designed to provide the best environment for resolving compilation errors, so that you […]

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In just four weeks, Valerio Dewalt Train created a 1:1 scale on-site augmented reality (AR) application to showcase a 36-story skyline-altering tower before it was built.  Founded in 1994, Valerio Dewalt Train is a 50+ person national architectural and design practice with offices in Chicago, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. The company works with a […]

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