iPhone Game development with Unity 3D

iPhone has changed the mobile market forever, and since the app store opened developers have been scrambling to have their creation up in lights on the app store.

With trust installed that apps and the app store will be around for a long time large media agencies, Gaming and software houses are moving in to have a slice of the cake - either creating apps for their clients, for use in house or creating iPhone versions of software or games already released in desktop, console or web form.

If your not familiar with what Unity 3D is then a very brief description would be that it is a desktop application that allows you to create 3D games for a range of different platforms including PC, Wii, The Internet and finally the iPhone.

Unity is a very powerful tool that helps to reduce the amount of work that would normally require a full house of developers and designers all working together to create a 3D game for one particular platform, realistically speaking you still need a large team of developers and designers to realise a 3D game no matter what platform, Unity just helps to make common aspects game development faster and simpler to develop - it won't create an amazing idea, story board or look and feel for your game...that has to be done the old fashioned way.

If you haven't got the plug-in to be able to view some of the demo games online that Unity has to offer on their site then you can search for examples on You Tube to watch instead.

If you haven't already responded to Sepas challenge to come up with a cool idea for an iPhone app then get your ideas in now!

Although this leaves almost infinite scope for ideas you could come up with (given iPhones flexibility) the rule of thumb on the iPhone is "Simple is best". So try to come up with something you feel would be good scaled down to iPhone (widgets, puzzle games, utilities ect).

Unity 3D iPhone publishing