Here is a list of hundreds of Shockwave 3D games:
http://www.shockwave3d.com/

Sounds bizarre I know, but the guys in Lithuania *reallY* know what they’re doing, and spent a whole load of time optimizing the hell out of the rendering code. They can quite literally turn math into ice-cream if they want to.

(Full disclosure – I *don’t* work for Unity, but am good friends with most of the guys…they’ll get the ice cream reference)

http://www.packtpub.com/unity-game-development-essentials/book

And we’re working on learning materials, for now we have these:

http://unity3d.com/support/resources

Our demo team is working on more, next up is an iPhone specific tutorial that will be out when we release our Unity iPhone 1.1 update later this month.

1. We license Unity on a per developer basis, once you have your license you are then free to make as many games as you like without any per-game or revenue share payments. The only exception to this is the Wii where we do charge per-title.

2. We have trials of all our products, but only a Unity Indie is available directly off the site. Anyone who wants to try out Unity Pro or our iPhone tools can request that by writing to us at sales@unity3d.com.

3. The future of Unity has a lot more in store for everyone. I can’t comment on other platforms in specific but I can say that we’re looking at additional mobile and gaming platforms (consoles). Keep an eye out as we’ll continue to grow our product.

Anyone interest in Unity can/should drop by our community forums:

http://forum.unity3d.com

I post under the name HiggyB, come say hi! Of course I’ll also check back here for additional comments/questions.

What is the future of unity ?
Would we be able to make games on symbian, android, psp or other platforms also using Unity in near future?

I hope he reads this and comment.

Units is really good Nicholas. hats off to you and team.

I’d say a $600 average is too low, and would probably put the license avg at about $1600-2000.

If you need every last bit of processor power for high-end effects, you might want to code “to the metal”, though.

That being said … Dear TechCrunch, it’s 2009. Don’t you think it’s time to implement a rating system for comments? The first one on this story is a less-than-stellar “It’s an good news, thanks”, and that’s not the worst I have seen here today. I’d love to bury this and other link spam to hell… Thank you.

I am a owner of unity and its a tidy peice of kit but my only complaint would be the lack of learning materials. I would love a professional screencast series and a book.

oh and here’s an interesting article on promoting your iPhone app using Hollrr: http://bit.ly/TGsTL

Their ‘indie’ package is $200 – probably most licenses sold were like that. So that is $1.8M.

But the 9,000 might be spread over a few years, so it really does seem like a viable business at these prices is quite borderline.

Bottom line, there are reasons why serious game engines, with dozens of developers behind them, end up costing a lot of money. But if these guys can disrupt the market, good for them.

@Willie, thanks for clearing up that the engine costs more on the Wii and other platforms. That makes their revenue position make more sense in the larger picture.

I love Unity! We use it … and it rocks.

Am I suppose to buy a $1000 for something I haven’t tried at all?