iCode Tips

I’m sure that most of you already heard about unity 3d, if not unity 3d is a : “Unity is a multiplatform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation”, in other words is an IDE where you can create games very easy.

This is a very simple test “game” I did in about few hours (4-5 including downloading and installing unity and 3d max). You should have some basic knowledge about 3d and games in general, what physics are, some scripting, etc.

Now, you are wandering why this post in an iPhone blog… well it’s too great not to talk about AND you can publish directly for iPhone. I’m sure that you heard about guerilla bob game, guess what,  you can that game just fallowing one of the tutorial step by step… all you need is the models, speaking of what, you should really install a 3d modeling environment, I use 3d studio max (costs a lot, but you can find a freelancers version on torrents….a cracked one if you didn’t got it) it only runs on windows so if you are planning to do some game development on osx this is not an option. It’s important to have this kind of software even is you use it just for conversion, because you never know… in the demo you will see the trees are models downloaded from the internet, but the fence and the grave stones are created by me in 3d max… it’s pretty easy actually.

If I got you with guerilla bob, here is what you need to do, download the free version of unity and start learning, meanwhile find a 3d artist to create your models, when you have something get unity pro for iphone, you have a 30 days trial, and start your game tutorials, there is a great unity tutorial for 3rd person game called “penelope” you can down load it from the unity website.

Here is my demo (remember to install the unity plugin) : unity3d game demo