Hey everyone, I thought it would be useful for everyone to post the name of their Unity iPhone apps that are live in the AppStore in this thread so we can all go and sample the goodness. So post away. 
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FuguTilt
under Games->Action (free)
Widget Monkey!
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=295004339&mt=8
$0.99
(Other non-Unity games in the store can be found on the CTG website)
It’s not my app, but Crazy Snowboard is another. Could this thread be stickied?
Stickified 
Post here once your game goes up on the app store so we can all check it out.
This is our first app. It’s called Dice 3D.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=294934540&mt=8
Thanks for adding us in Mindlube! Here’s the app store link:
…and a screenshot from the iPhone.
iStronaut Willy ! Check it out guys. Just released today. Mehware’s first arcade game for the iPhone.
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=296615877&mt=8
Bubble Bang released yesterday. (YouTube)
Butterflies is now up at the app store. w00t!
Thanks everyone for the help in the forums and thanks Unity Team for making such a great tool.
Here are a few things I thought were important…
- Download size of the zip file was 9.5M before submit and on store is 18.1M. I made some choices to reduce the file size within the 10M limit for cell network download. I’m going to look into this and either add those things back to it or try to reduce the store download size to under 10M.
- Using the OnGUI make sure to set that useGUILayout property to false- this picked up 10fps for me.
- It took 3 days for approval like others have been indicating this week.
- Reading the forums was very helpful!
Why do these last programs come up as 19MB and 25MB big?
That way they are far over 10MB and commercially NOT interesting to sell.
I haven’t seen any unity game yet which is less then that 10MB, so what goes wrong here?
The base app itself due to the size of mono is already considerably high. if you want smaller sizes, then you have to get unity advanced which can cut parts of the mono etc backend you didn’t use to reduce the size
also using PVRTC compression and using realistic textures sizes and amounts (<= 256x256, as less as possible) are needed.
doing a real 3d game = no chance to get below 10MB!
also I’ve some probs seeing the issue here. Apples own poker game is 140mb, yet its far further up the selling list than most other games.
just because you can not download it on wifi, this does not mean you can not get it while on the go. most phone contracts include wifi access as its far cheaper for the carriers
also if your size is reasonable due to the quality and content offered, there will be a far lower hurdle to have users buy it anyway.
Thing is, a basic Unity iPhone build without any content is around 5MB or so when compressed. It should be quite possible for a real 3d game to come in under 10MB as long as the sound is minimal and you don’t go crazy with textures, but something seems to go wonky with the app store size somehow. But yeah, there are apps way over 10MB that get high sales so I don’t think it’s a huge issue, but it would still be good to know what’s going on exactly.
–Eric
Well with 2.1 the install speed raised drastically … so I would guess that apple:
- either does not compress them anymore
- compresses them with the lowest profile, not the ultra as on the desktop
because before the update, it took several mins to install their poker, now its about 30 secs I think