Few questions about licences!

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Hello, my name is Carlos
I’m new in Unity and i have done a little “game” in the free version
Here is my question
I would like to start doing a simply iphone game.
I have a lot of resources and a book specific for that (IPHONE 3D GAME PROGRAMMING ALL IN ONE)

But i have some questions:

  • I want to do the game, test in my iphone and if i see i can publish, buy the iOS development licence (99$). I have saw in my book that you have to buy FIRST the licence for testing… I don’t want that because probably my game is not going to see the appstore and it is a training for me… Its that true? i have to pay the 99$ before developing the game?

  • For making games for iOS, can i use the free version? Its the Unity normal version or it is a special version for iOS ??

Thanks a lot

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Yes you have to pay that if you want to build your game to the device, otherwise just build and test within unity, and use unity remote.

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It’s not a special version, it’s an add-on license for $400.

–Eric

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i want to make the game in unity and test it in my iphone and in case i make a good game, buy the required licences and publish it
unity remote its for texting?? , its necessary to buy the addon of 400$

Sorry for ask about the prices and all, i’m just a student of 18 years old and i want to know how much it would cost me

Thanks a lot for the answers!!

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to test on the actual device you are looking at ~$600

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really? damn that’s so much for me… i’m just a student
thankss
EDIT: and it is completly necessary the addon for unity? thanks

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yes hence unity iphone… otherwise its just unity windows which is the boat you’re currently in…

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If you want to do iPhone games, yes, the addon is necessary. Otherwise they wouldn’t sell it. Technically you can write iOS code in Unity Free, but since you can’t test it at all without the iPhone publishing, I’m not sure it would do you much good. It’s $500 ($400 for Unity iPhone + $99 developer fee) rather than $600, unless you have to pay VAT or something.

–Eric