Unity is just freakin awesome. I think this game as been posted before, but only the trailer. Now it's playable for free online with the unity engine.
http://www.interstellarmarines.com/
I love the trend of going to a web page, letting a game load for 30 seconds, and having a full 3d shooter in my hands.
trailer:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvsTGKKaiw[/ame]
So, what do you guys think? Good trend or bad? Do you prefer the ole, install a CD way of doing things?
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Have they switched to the unity engine now for the full game?
I wish I could walk around and shoot 3D models, though.
I think they plan to ummm sell that part
Probably the same reason console gaming is more popular than PC gaming these days. It's more simple and clear cut, it's a closed platform, you know exactly the performance everyone is going to get, because it's the same machine.
Plus on the average machine, Unity doesn't come close to 360/PS3 level performance.
Don't get me wrong though, it's hugely impressive, and I'm going to play around with it too.
The Island demo is still the most impressive thing I've seen from Unity though.
Well developers are going to have to get used to it. No longer are consoles the end all of all gaming. Gaming will be on a tremendous variety of platforms, and webrowser games are part of that future.
I know browser games are huge, and growing by the minute, that's the main reason I developed my own 3D engine in Flash.
Seriously though, I've done some work on I guess 2 Unity games now (just a character, a car and some minor items), but have zero knowledge of the performance characteristics of the engine.
Especially like that shark thing, why hasnt someone done that before?
ahem.
I stand corrected, although I do prefer the four legged sleeker version.
please let me know of any other engine where my asset is already ingame as the moment I've saved the file in my 3d application
Because, and I'm absolutely not the only one, the demo thingie for Interstellar Marines has been loading for 10 minutes and isn't even halfway done. Now, I haven't a clue how it'll look, but downloading levels before playing like that is going to kill me.
and plus they will not get to sell theyr account the same they sell the cd
and also there still ppl whitout internet and such lol