Developing in Unity always been sexy for it’s ease of use, incredible in-browser performance and ease of releasing on multiple platforms. At OrcaJam<\/a> a few weeks ago, Alec Holowka<\/a> showed me just a few of the incredible things Unity can do and presented a strong case for switching.<\/p>\n I always knew that development in Unity was fast, but it’s REALLY fast, getting a simple prototype up and running is a matter of a few hours, as opposed to a few days in Flash. That’s a HUGE difference and one that’s hard to ignore.<\/p>\n In addition to the time savings, Unity makes it dead easy to deploy on browser, PC\/Mac Download, iOS (iPhone\/iPad) and Android support is coming soon. <\/p>\n I’ve had more than a few friends ask me if they can play Ray Ardent on iPhone, but it’s not that simple. Even though Flash export to iOS, the performance is very disappointing. A high performance game like Ray Ardent with collision, parallax scrolling and enemy AI slows down to a crawl when exported through the Flash exporter for iPhone. <\/p>\n It’s possible that Adobe will improve this, but it’s likely Ray won’t be making an appearance on iPhone for a long time.<\/p>\n With all of this going for it, why the hell haven’t I made the switch? <\/p>\n It’s really simple – Flash has a massive reach. In modern computers, Flash’s install base is over 90%. It’s quite simply the best way in the world to reach people. There are over 30,000 Flash game portals in the world, reaching tens of millions of players.<\/p>\n That’s hard to beat.<\/p>\n In Unity’s favor, is BigPoint<\/a>. BigPoint is a game company that has had a lot of success with their Unity game portal in Europe and they are moving into North America. They also have a great micro-transaction that anyone can implement.<\/p>\n For the time being, I’m holding the course on Flash, but Unity will always be out there – tempting me…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/nrdland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/unityLogo.jpeg\" "\\"unityLogo\\"")
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