SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 30, 2011 – Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for awesome games and interactive 3D on the web, iOS, Android, consoles and beyond, today announced the finalists for the 2011 Unity Awards. The finalists were chosen from an extensive and stellar list of games, entertainment and apps made with the Unity engine. Winners will be announced at Unite 11, Unity Technologies’ fifth annual developer conference taking place September 28 – 30, 2011 at the Masonic Center in San Francisco.
Unity Award finalists display some of the best and brightest professional and amateur talent within the video game industry across platforms from iOS and Facebook to PlayStation 3 and PC. The finalists in each category are:
Student
— 1916 – Der Unbekannte Krieg (Team 2 DADIU)
— Blokhead (Team Blokhead)
— Branch (Awesome Games DADIU)
— Broken Dimensions (Team Twisted DADIU)
— GLiD (GLiD)
— Unstoppaball (Matthew Zarzecki)
Non-Game
— A+E 3D (Apluse)
— Aircraft Marshalling Virtual Trainer (Heartwood Inc.)
— CliniSpace (CliniSpace)
— Let’s Create! Pottery HD (Infinite Dreams)
— Tiga Talk Speech Therapy Games (Tactica Interactive)
— Virtual History Roma (Mondadori Digital)
Cross-Platform
— BattleBall (Schell Games)
— Buddy Rush (Sollmo)
— Margaritaville Online (Exploding Barrel Games)
— Shadow Era (Wulven Game Studios)
— UberStrike (Cmune Games)
Graphics
— Cordy (SilverTree Media)
— Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
— Mini Motor Racing (The Binary Mill)
— Rochard (Recoil)
— Siegecraft (Crescent Moon Games)
— Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
Gameplay
— BasketDudes (Bitoon)
— King’s Bounty: Legions (Nival Interactive)
— Pulse: Volume One (Cipher Prime)
— Rochard (Recoil)
— Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
— Snuggle Truck (Owlchemy Labs)
Grand Prix
— BasketDudes (Bitoon)
— Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
— Battlestar Galactica Online (Artplant, BigPoint)
— Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
— Rochard (Recoil)
— Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
Community Choice
— BasketDudes (Bitoon)
— Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
— Battlestar Galactica Online (Artplant, BigPoint)
— Boccia (Sainsbury or Preloaded?)
— Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
— Marvel Super Hero Squad Online (Gazillion)
— Monkey Quest (Behavior, Nickelodeon)
— Runespell (Mystic Box)
— Snuggle Truck (Owlchemy Labs)
— UberStrike (Cmune Games)
To cast a vote for the Community Choice award, simply visit http://unity3d.com/awards/!
About Unite 11
Unity Technologies is holding Unite 11, its fifth annual developer conference, September 28 – 30, 2011 at the Masonic Center in San Francisco. Unite 11 is an event for developers, publishers, enthusiasts and others interested in Unity to come together to learn more about the market-leading platform for creating high quality video games, training simulations, medical and architectural visualizations and other 3D interactive content — and how to get the most out of it.
Unite 11 will offer three days of learning including advanced hands-on class tutorials, technical sessions and an opportunity to attend awesome parties. David Brevik, the President and COO of Gazillion Entertainment and Co-Creator and Lead Programmer of Diablo and Diablo II, will give the opening keynote. This year’s sponsors include AikenLabs, Allegorithmic, design3, Electrotank, Exit Games, Intel, Luxology, Massive Black, Mixamo, NVIDIA, OpenFeint, Qualcomm, SoftKinetic and Sony Ericsson. Unity Technologies is hosting a Flash Day on September 27, the day before Unite 11 kicks off to give Flash users a crash course in Unity development. For more information on Unite 11 and Flash Day, simply visit: http://unity3d.com/unite/.
About Unity Technologies
Unity Technologies is revolutionizing the game industry with Unity, its award-winning breakthrough development platform. Unity Technologies has more than 500,000 registered users worldwide — including Bigpoint, Cartoon Network, Coca-Cola, Disney, Electronic Arts, LEGO, Microsoft, NASA, Nickelodeon, Ubisoft, Warner Bros., large and small studios, indies, students and hobbyists — all using Unity to create games and interactive 3D, like training simulations and medical and architectural visualizations, on the web, mobile, consoles and beyond. Unity Technologies is aggressively innovating to expand usability, power and platform reach along with its Asset Store digital content marketplace and Union game distribution service so that it can deliver on its vision of democratizing interactive 3D technology. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has development offices worldwide. For more information, visit: http://unity3d.com.
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