I’m just starting out with Unity, having tried to go down the XNA game development path in the first instance. Obviously, Unity makes it much easier to dive straight into make games - so I’ve decide to switch.
While I’ve got my hands on some decent learning resources, there is nothing better than sharing learning experiences with others. Especially if there is a chance it could build into some sort of development team.
Anyway - I can’t fathom why Newcastle doesn’t seem to have any development communities out there…months of Googleing has not found anything.
So…if you live in Newcastle and are getting into Unity, I’m more than happy to share what I’m up to / shoot the shit over a few beers etc.
I actually know a couple of developers that have come out of Newcastle, I myself am from Melbourne and have also just started to pick up Unity… and for a while there I was the only MVP for XNA in Australia untill we got our second.
It looks like a common trend to see XNA guys swapping across.
Hey Mykre - We got a brief intro to XNA from Luke Drum (Drumme?) up here about 6 months ago (as part of the Newcastle Coders Group community)…and I think XNA is very cool - especially given i’m an engineer and love the 1’s and 0’s type coding. But with work and family consuming 99.99% of my life, its pretty hard to learn core c# stuff and then XNA as well. Unity is great cause it lets you enter game dev at a metaphorically higher level. I’d love to build up a quasi game engine using XNA but…time conspires! That’s why Unity is inviting. Thanks for responding though!
Hey guys, I am also from Newcastle and I’m looking into Unity, I have a graphic design background but a friend of mine works with Unity and is showing me some bits and pieces. He has actually just created a little game for an exhibition that is on this friday called Pixel-8 PIXEL-8 by THE ROOST CREATIVE this is where I got massive curiousity into game development etc. You should come have a beer with us “DeathByTouchy” and anyone else for that matter who is in the Newcastle area
