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Hello,

I am brand new to Unity and game programming in general, so new I have not even downloaded it yet. Last summer I created my first game in Flash using ActionScript 3. I haven’t done much with AS3 since.

I have been reading the forums here for the last few hours and I think that out of all the game engines I have been researching, the Unity base seems more developed and mature. I like that! You get your flamers and sarcasm in every crowd but the many posts I have read here, it has been minimal unlike some other forums I was reading.

So, I am trying to start really small with a game catalog style application. I was wondering if it is possible to create an interface in Unity that allows the user to click on a option that allows a pre-installed game that has been downloaded from the web to be launched clicking the link or their thumbnail? A good example is if you install a simple game from www.bigfishgames.com it creates it’s own game catalog of all their installed games. This is the same concept that I would like create but with my own interface for my own list of games or other programs even.

If this is possible, can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how this can be accomplished? I will need to down load the engine first and start going through the tutorials and work my way up to that part. I am afraid that the flash development platform, the windows security features will prevent this operation but it is a legitimate call to another program.

Thanks. I look forward to the responses and look forward to learning Unity.

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Haven’t tried it myself but should be doable from the installed versions (not web, possibly not mobile).

Unity uses Mono - so look for C# tutorials.

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Thanks. Will look at that route. It will not be a web app an installed exe on a local machine.

OK, now that I knew what direction to look under, I came across this Microsoft Thread that explained how to do this.

Process.Start(“Application.exe”);

The complete thread can be seen here.

Thanks so much for the nudge. Now to have fun after I install Unity.

Cheers!

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Standalone Unity apps allow you access to the System.Diagnostics.Process class as well as System.IO and System.Registry. Usually, these 3 things are enough to find and run applications on a computer. Note that none of that is available in the Web player.