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Unity's David Helgason on Middleware

Posted by Eric Plante, 14 July 2010 2:46 pm

www.mobile-ent.biz/news/37830/Unity-CEO-Steve-Jobs-doesnt-understand-the-economics-of-game-development

Now of course, Unity is in the business of selling game technologies, so this isn't coming from a disinterested party. Still, the point is valid. A game's uniqueness rarely relies on its tech and always on its creators' talent and imagination. And when it does rely on its tech, it does so for one particular feature; no professionals nowadays pride themselves on having written everything from scratch, because that has nothing to do with building a great game. And that's what counts.

The iPhone SDK itself comes with many facilities to develop applications; in essence it is middleware for apps. Game-centric features have no business being there (graphics, sure, audio, of course. AI? Character animation? Level design? Not really), but that doesn't mean there shouldn't be solutions out there for creators to use.

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Posted 12 July 2011 6:26 am

Not to forget: The statements David made back then was a direct reaction to Apples control-obession going havok because they were in fear of the much hated (by Apple) Flash coming to the platform .Steve Jobs himself spoke about "crappy Games coming out of middleware", only proving that Mr. Jobs has not much understanding of todays game development processes
From one day to another they stopped to approve any Unity iPhone games to be released on the Apple Appstore. . Additionally they let Unity ( as a company) in Limbo - informationwise - if they EVER would allow Unity to ever come back on the iOS platform for Games. This caused a lot of upset in the iPhone Game developer community...
All this happend because Apple feared to loose control when they would allow Flash to come to the iOS platform...

spacefrog

Posted 12 July 2011 6:28 am

ooops - sorry about the confusion... somehow i thought th blogpost was from this year ......
anyway the things a have written in my previous post are facts, nonetheless

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