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Publish your Unity 5.4 game onto a new Facebook Games platform for Windows

Register to be a closed-alpha partner! Unity is integrating with Facebook to reduce the cost and friction of delivering your games cross-platform, with all the capacity to achieve more than 650 million those people who are currently playing Facebook-connected games monthly. With over $2.5B paid out by Facebook to video game developers just last year only, Facebook will be finding developers building in Unity 5.4 to participate as closed-alpha partners to evaluate a new export efficiency inside the Unity editor. Using this new functionality, Unity developers have the opportunity to easily publish their games onto a completely new Facebook PC gaming submission platform to assist drive further development and monetization. Register here ( fb.me/FBUnityAlpha ) by August 31, 2016 to help, test and offer feedback on an alpha build of the brand new functionality we're in building into the Unity editor. Do not neglect this chance to help build an interesting new venture that ...

Get early access to Google Daydream Technical preview.[Unity Daydream forum]

  Thinking about developing new VR experiences for Google’s Daydream program? Unity and Google have worked to develop this technical preview, that gives you early access to Daydream functions. The technical preview is a customized form of the Unity Editor and Android Player. (In future versions of Unity Daydream, it's going to be delivered as an element of the entire public releases.) Unity would like to notice your feedback on the preview, that you can express on unity's Daydream forums. Beginning steps In case you are fresh to Android development, make sure to check out Unity’s Getting Started Guide for Android. To find out more about dealing with Daydream and Unity, kindly visit the following sites: Google’s VR site for developers Daydream overview, documentation and tutorials, Unity-specific documentation Daydream Technical Preview Forum If you’re ready to jump right in, download the Technical Preview now . See Also: Top 10 Free Low Po...

Top 10 Free Low Poly Models From CGTrader

Great video games need great models. Of course, plot and gameplay are also important, but what gets fingers on the keyboard are great visuals - especially so with first person shooters and other fighting games. So it is a great boon to every game developer that some kick-ass military related 3D models are available for free. For example, here’s this collection of the ten best free low poly models from CGTrader . AKM by chamferzone Formats: .fbx, .obj Tim “chamferzone” Bergholz is a known 3D artist who has worked on such projects as Crysis. And this AKM is one of his free masterpieces. This rifle would look great in any terrorist’s hands, and what more could you ask of a gun model? Bow and arrow by raymso Formats: .fbx, .max, .obj, .tga If you need fantasy weapons for your elf army, this bow and arrow model is just what you need. This lithe elf bow just oozes fantasy! Combat Vehicle by pitatang Formats: .unitypackage This combat buggy can trace lineage to both Halo’s Warthog and th...

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object This Exception occurs in Unity whenever you try to access a variable that is not initialized or does not refer to any object. For example when you create a GameObject variable in a script, by default it does not refer to anything. To assign a value to that GameObject variable you have to make it equal to some value before using it. Example: <?phpPublic GameObject myObject; void Awake(){ myObject = someObject; } You can either set myObject in code as shownin example above, or through inspector as it is a public object (refer to image below). This exception can also occur while trying to instantiate and object for same reason. For Example: Instantiate(myObject,new Vector3.zero,Quaternion.Identity); This might give NullReferenceException if myObject variable refers to nothing. This Exception will also occur if you are trying to access a member function of uninitialized object. For Example...

35 Russian Video Game Developers Companies To Work With

  Today’s Russia is the remainder of the core of an old superpower, a well known fact the video game industry would do well to remember. To analysts, although, Russia is usually defined as a “developing” nation. But is Russia precisely sorted with nations like Brazil and Turkey, locations with interesting-but-not-quite-ripe gaming possibilities? Without a doubt, developers can easily publish on the App Store and Google Play. Nevertheless, this holds with it one leading issue: Russians demand Russian.   Below you can discover the best List Of Russian Video Game Developers companies for work with in Russia. If you happen to be a mobile app developer based in Russia, you may establish your personalized expert app developer profile. Include your apps, works, and mobile app development company facts. C Company Akella Alawar Allods Team Brainy Studio LLC Buka Entertainment Creat Studios Eagle Dynamics Elektronorgtechnica Elemental Games fruc...

The Best New Ways To Train Your Kids to Code

Teach kids to code! Many moms and dads desire their children to learn to code. Technology leaders and teachers are moving schools to add more computer-science classes, and families frequently see programming as an important ability for future years. But as opposed to reading to your children or educating them to count, planning kids to code can feel complicated and unpleasant. Quite a few parents believe they can’t help simply because they don’t know mathematics or programming on their own. More and more, though, parents who haven't ever created a line of code are discovering ways to teach their children fundamental programming skills. Some tap websites, gaming apps or online puzzles using visual programming languages created for children. Others consider teaching the kind of thinking that coding needs. For example, even young kids can discover ways to break work into steps and complete them in order—a programming idea called sequencing—or to repeat a number of steps until ...

Russia, Brazil and China in the top 5 Positions for Unity installs

Q2 data reveals the increasing importance of mobile phone markets away from Europe and North America Brazil, Russia, China and India are progressively significant marketplace for mobile games, reported by an investigation from Unity Technologies, with only China and United States producing more installs across Android and iOS in Q2. Unity groups Brazil, India and Russia with China, the most famous only marketplace for downloads. Collectively, the four regions - or "BRIC," to use Unity's terminology - displayed 41% of the 4.4 billion installs of Unity games throughout the time period. Organically, China supplied nearly 30% of installs by itself, but the expansion of these markets is motivating news for developers fighting to develop achievements in Europe and North America. Most importantly, India replaced Japan as the 5th biggest area for Unity game installs, and its population of greater than 1.2 billion people efficiently makes sure that it continues to rise up ...