Android and IOS versions of Unity are free until April 8th

Posted by clavalle on Monday March 05, 2012 @05:07PM
from the store.unity3d.com dept.

https://store.unity3d.com

Usually they are $800 together. (Their site has been crushed...so be patient :)

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Re:Android and IOS versions of Unity are free until April 8th by davesmylie on Monday March 05, 2012 @07:47PM (#3669147)

I toyed with creating an android game in unity last year, but the cost of the licence ($400) put me off and I ended up doing it natively using java and eclipse (which was fairly painful)

I'm going to give unity another look in, but the unity servers seem pretty well hammered at this point!

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Re:Android and IOS versions of Unity are free until April 8th by coryl on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @12:43AM (#3669797)

One of the reasons I never bought a license was the cost. I followed a Unity course over two months and wanted to develop mobile games. I had the skill to, but committing $400 to something I'd never really done before was insane.

The Apple developer license, Corona/Gamesalad, etc. are far more affordable and less risky. I'm not even sure if you had access to the iOS/Android API without purchasing a license, so I guess you wouldn't be able to practice it.

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Re:Android and IOS versions of Unity are free until April 8th by reedum on Monday March 05, 2012 @07:58PM (#3669178)

They are worse than hammered. I have been refreshing the 500 error for 30 minutes to log in to my account.

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Re:Android and IOS versions of Unity are free until April 8th by sodiumphosphate on Monday March 05, 2012 @08:37PM (#3669268)

Stop refreshing; you have more than a month to get it.

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Re:Android and IOS versions of Unity are free until April 8th by swalsh on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @07:33AM (#3670714)

I am so psyched for this! Unity is an amazing platform, and their support of the community is quite remarkable.

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