iGame Radio: Tom Higgins interviewed about Unity!

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Hey folks, I thought I’d let you know that during the recent Casual Connect game conference in Seattle I was interviewed by the folks at iGame Radio. That interview is now up and available for your listening pleasure. What’s more is that the podcast also includes an interview with Jim Greer, founder of kongregate.com and during his interview he explicitly talks about Unity content after bagging on a certain competitive technology I have experience with… :slight_smile:

Give it a listen: iGame Radio for July 30, 2007

PLAYING NOW!! July 30, 2007: Host Omaha Sternberg covers the Casual Connect 2007 casual games conference in the second of a multi-part series, including an interview with Tom Higgins of Over The Edge (OTEE), about the Unity 3D engine, the features Unity provides, and what we’ll see from Unity 2.0. Also, an interview with Jim Greer of Kongregate, about the Kongregate NextGen gaming social site.

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Nice ! :shock:

Im listening already…

.ORG

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listening too - sounds good ; )

(3rd in google search for ‘unity’ - that’s damn good! - i checked ‘torque’ - #2 in the list but they don’t have religious sites to compete with lol)

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Cool. Only thing is that actually Unity does native support Cheetah 3D files like it does Maya and Cinema 4D :slight_smile:

Cheers,
-Jon

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“We haven’t forgotten [the need for version control] and we’ll have some things that help that issue in the future.” Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Excellent.

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I noticed that too. Also, I seem to have heard something about posting the rest of the 40 features in the next few weeks.

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Great job with the interview, Tom. And the stuff about Kongregate is interesting; it’ll really help spread the Unity player if sites like that start to promote it. When developers understand that Unity is to 3D what Flash is to 2D, they will realize that the web doesn’t have to be flat. I don’t think the guy was bashing Director, but most of us here would agree with him, having voted with our feet and wallets. Director, like VRML, promised to bring 3D to the web, but didn’t really do it. Unity fulfills that promise.

(ps: cartoon nipples are better than none at all…)

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Nice interview! Sounds cool that kongregate is supporting the Unity web player. I will have to submit megapixel there too :slight_smile: