Unity #4 engine on best engine list in developer mag

Thomas-Lund · June 25, 2009, 9:27am

http://www.developmag.com/interviews/517/THE-TOP-10-GAME-ENGINES-NO4-Unity-3D

Congrats

Dreamora · June 25, 2009, 9:32am

Very sweet
Congrats to UT

Also interesting is that an engine in early beta (T3D) is ranked in the top ten.
Does not really speak for the industry veteran engines (or their progress offering / price)

AngryAnt · June 25, 2009, 1:00pm

Isn’t this list just a mentioning of the engines before the actual voting / grading?

WillBellJr · June 25, 2009, 1:19pm

Well I’m glad to see that XBox 360 was mentioned as being on the roadmap. 8)

-Will

anon_85768832 · June 25, 2009, 9:55pm

That’s my understanding too Emil. This is just a run-down of ten engines, but if you look at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards page you’ll see the following engines nominated for this year’s “Best Engine” category:

Unreal Engine 3 (Epic Games)
Gamebryo (Emergent Game Technologies)
BlitzTech (Blitz Games Studios)
Unity (Unity Technologies)
Vision Engine (Trinigy)
PhyreEngine (SCEE R&D)

Thomas-Lund · June 26, 2009, 9:25pm

Duh - think you are right!

So still a chance to take the top spot

/T

Dreamora · June 26, 2009, 9:47pm

Great to see Unity in this years DIEA voting

anon_65603996 · June 27, 2009, 6:45am

BlitzTech???

Note that the only one that has a price is Unity.
I think the business model of Unity is a killer.
Wii is too expensive thought.

But the other’s engine hi prices will be just killed by the reliability of a Unity, tested and proved on more games and platforms, on games ranging from casual iPhone to (I hope soon) AAA titles.

anon_36873738 · June 28, 2009, 4:39pm

Scotty, find me a new nagivator!

Dreamora · June 28, 2009, 4:43pm

Should be easy pricewise for anyone having a Wii dev license.
Also its peanuts compared to other crossplatform engines with wii support.

anon_36873738 · June 28, 2009, 7:31pm

Is Funcom developing an MMO in Unity?

anon_85768832 · June 29, 2009, 5:38pm

+1 Seriously, the price of our engine on the Wii is really not that expensive from a console pricing stand-point. Yes, it feels expensive for those coming from the desktop/web/iPhone angle but that’s based in ignorance (not being rude, look up the word’s definition) about the costs and effort involved in getting anything on to a console (Wii or otherwise). You will invest a lot of time and effort, not to mention money, and in the end our Wii licensing fees are going to be a smaller piece of that puzzle. It’s $2000-$10000 just to get your Wii dev kit, then you add in the time/effort/expense of development, then you add-in the time/effort/expense getting your content approved and slotted into the publishing queue (if/when they let you in), etc. Our pricing is quite reasonable actually.

Yep. We did some PR about it last summer, here is a blog post I wrote last July that mentions it in brief (I’m sure more recent news can be found online).

anon_65603996 · June 29, 2009, 10:11pm

How much is the Wii license?

anon_85768832 · June 29, 2009, 10:13pm

WiiWare: $15k per title
Retail: $30k per title

FYI: the above information is also listed on the Unity Wii Publishing feature page.

anon_11055544 · June 17, 2012, 8:56pm

Did those on the Jury even know about the Cry Engine 3 ?!

MarigoldFleur · June 17, 2012, 8:59pm

Just because an engine is pretty doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best.

…Did you just dig this thread up from nearly two years ago to post that?

kingcharizard · June 17, 2012, 9:01pm

Dudes this topic is over about 3+ years old… seriously how do these topics get found

superpig · June 17, 2012, 10:44pm

This was three years ago, so: no they did not. Apart from Norman, who is prescient, but the other judges overruled him.

cod · June 18, 2012, 9:00am

and what about Frostbite 2.0?

TylerPerry · June 18, 2012, 9:20am

The zombie apocalypse is happening!!! I’m puzzled as to why RPG maker 2k3 wasn’t on there…