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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Building Windows Games with Unity

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Building Windows Games with Unity
  • From: Rob Echlin <rob [ at ] echlin [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:26:05 -0700 (PDT)
And one of their platforms is indeed Linux.
It's a work-in-progress effort, though.

Rob




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> From: Rob Echlin <rob [ at ] echlin [ dot ] ca>
>To: OCLUG- Lists <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> 
>Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 10:22:33 AM
>Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Building Windows Games with Unity
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>When I read the newsletter from Microsoft I was  Shocked!, I say Shocked! when I saw they were promoting a product called Unity and that people could migrate their Unity apps to Windows 8!
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>Microsoft has often re-used names from other places, like XP = eXtreme Programming, for their own purposes, and I don't like it, 
>but this is not an example of that.
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>Unity is a company producing a game development environment for Windows and apparently for 9 other publishing platforms.
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>They have been around since about 2006, with blogs since 2007.
>You can't copyright a single dictionary word, but AFAICT (IANAL) you can trademark it within a narrow product range.
>So Canonical came second (or more).
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>Now, if only you could publish to Unity from Unity, while running Unity on Unity or even on Gnome or LXDE, that would be cool.
>Although not $1500 worth of cool. <g>
>
>Rob
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