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Unity3D graphics engine coming to Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoI want to punch anyone that uses the phrase "after the break", when there is clearly no "break".
- Karunamon 14y agoThis is a full post page - the "break" will be on the front page of this site (which appears to be directing me to a mobile version for some bloody reason..), where everything before that will be just displayed on the page, everything after on the full post page. No need to get violent.
- clebio 14y agoIt should be simple enough to wrap that 'after-the-break' paragraph in a style which isn't displayed on the full article page. Simple, but elegant.
- Karunamon 14y agoIt's a low level form of click bait. I.e. "click here and we'll show you the video". It also makes sense since you don't want the video on the front page, breaks the layout.
- GavinB 14y agoThe nice thing about Unity is that there was never any question this would happen. They've built up enough trust that we can be confident that they'll be on any popular new platform.
- podperson 14y agoExactly. Also, they already support Windows 7, so supporting Windows 8 is a non-story. (The ARM/Phone versions is the story.)
- the_mitsuhiko 14y agoI wonder how they do it. I was looking at how many changes were necessary to make CPython run on WinRT and it looked like quite a large undertaking. Did they patch mono by hand or is there some open source work available for that? //EDIT: apparently monogame already supports Windows 8. Interesting. Probably not something that required changes in Mono.
- alttab 14y agoWindows 8 was a good move. Anyone who wants to play 3D games on a mobile device probably wont buy a Windows phone though.
- keithnoizu 14y agoI don't see any reason why windows on arm users wouldn't be willing to pay for a casual game 3d or otherwise on their device. The smaller market size might be a hinderance along with any app vetting fees but if you can do a port of an existing unity based app for a relatively low cost you would probably come out ahead. Also keep in mind theres a lot of xbox/win phone interop stuff going on there so theres at least a few gamers on the platform.
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- uvTwitch 14y agowell, Unity already runs on iOS and android; having coverage of all major platforms is hardly a bad move.
- edandersen 14y agoWonder if they will still use the Mono runtime instead of the built in .NET CLR?
- jebblue 14y agoIt isn't on Linux so the new crap NASA is programming with it won't run on my desktop. The stuff they did in the past did work on Linux.
- davedx 14y agoIt's coming on Linux too.