Our Unity contest has come to a close, with over 50 entires and 10 amazing finalists, the quality of entries has been amazing. We asked for original concepts and we had an amazing response but in the end there can only be 2 winners. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Unity 3D for the amazing prizes, both the Unity iPhone and the Unity Pro licenses are worth over $3600!
Before you find out who the winners are why not take a look at the ten finalists who all made it so difficult to pick winners. Honorable mention goes out to Pirates of new Horizons whom both the Unity and IndieDB team agreed had the best art direction. And also an honorable mention to Bloom who we felt had a very interesting gameplay mechanic.
RUNNER UP: Ayla
Ayla is a decendant of an ancient great empire that once created a device that could manipulate gravity, but their careless use of it shifted the world violently out of balance. The device was sealed away in a great temple for decades but as an alien threat has come to seek the power that once shook the universe Ayla decides to take the device to the planets core and use it to fight off the attackers. Ayla wins a Unity Pro Licence worth $1200.
WINNER: Bob Came in Pieces
Bob has crashed on a strange planet, lost a bunch of parts for his ship and above all, is late for work! Find the lost parts and rebuild your ship along the way to solve challenging, physics-based puzzles. You can build your ship any way you like in the ship builder – try to find the coolest ship-design for the puzzle at hand! Bob Came in Pieces wins a Unity Pro / iPhone Pro license worth $2400.
A big thanks to Unity and all those who entered, for all those entrants who didn't get lucky this time keep at it, all the projects entered are really amazing!
Congrats, I habe Bob came in Pieces on Steam, nice game. I guess this means you'll be making an iPhone version? Good luck then!
I'm not sure they can. Didn't steve say ""intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps."?
It basically means a no-go to third party development tools for iphone apps because the product will become "sub-standard".
I hope he changes his mind though. (Maybe one day I can convince my brother to program a porco rosso game for ipwn ^^.)
He said that, however he was referring to flash. Steve jobs himself has demonstrated a Monotouch game during the iPhone 4 launch. Also all Unity games have been constantly accepted onto the iPhone marketplace without problems.
Yes, I remember the people from Gameloft weren't too happy about that. But as NullSoldier mentioned, Steve's beef is with Adobe.
Meanwhile, the Android platform continues to take a bigger part of the smartphone market..
Congrats to the winners and thanks for the mention on behalf of "Pirates Of New Horizons"! Next time one of the licenses is ours!!! ;)
I voted for you guys, and you only just missed out! Keep at it, I really like your games direction.
Congrats guys! The games look amazing!
Congratulations to Bob Came in Pieces! And especially to my fellow stundents on Ayla!
Huge congrats to the two winners, they totally deserve it! (although we ofcourse had our fingers crossed here in Warby's livingroom)
Thanks to IndieDb and Unity for organising cool contests like this! Hope to see another one in the future ;)
Does Bob Came in Pieces remind anyone else of Pikmin?
yep :D
Really good stuff. Congrats to the winners!
Thanks everybody and wow!!! What great news! We are very honored to win this nice competition. And just want to say one more thing to my friend Filip who was participating with the Ayla-team: great work!
Wow! It feels amazing and honorable to win a license with such hard competition. Big grats to the Bob-team, amazing work! //Mathias - Ayla dev Team
Both games seem to be really really good, congratulations to the winner, the runner-up and all who participated!
at first i was like? What the hell? then i saw that bob was the winner.
Sad that indies didn't have chance to vote on this, outcome would be different probably, but bob would get my vote for sure
Bob Came in Pieces was fun.
Congratulations to the two winners - you certainly deserve it. Amazing work!
Hear, hear! Congrats guys. It's well deserved!
Congrats to all teams that entered they all deserve it. Will have to check out that bob game :D.
They really look very good. Congrats for such great games and the well deserved prize!
Dremth: Yes, the story of BCIP reminds me of Pikmin's... and I wrote it. Thanks you guys for voting for us, this is awesome! We'll be sure to put the license to very good use! ;-)
Congrats! :D
Congratulations! The winners and the finalists all look fantastic.
Great stuff, congrats to all the entries and winners!
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