Winner Winner
Introducing the winners of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2021
Celebrate the big wins and catch up with all the highlights
Company Profile
Unity Technologies
Website unity3d.com
About
Unity Technologies is the creator of Unity, a flexible and high-performance end-to-end development platform used to create rich interactive 3D and 2D experiences. Unity’s powerful engine and editor are the foundation for developers and designers to quickly build beautiful games or apps across multiple platforms: mobile devices, consoles, desktop computers, and embedded systems.
Unity also offers solutions and services for creating games and connecting with audiences including the Unity Asset Store, Unity Cloud Build, Unity Ads, and Unity Everyplay.
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Account Executive
Aras Pranckevičius
Graphics Programmer
David Helgason
Founder/CEO
Katrina Strafford
Vice President Marketing
Tony Garcia
Chief Revenue Officer
Josh Naylor
Technical Evangelist
Tony Parisi
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Clive Downie
CMO
John Riccitiello
CEO
Mika Kuusisto
VP of Business Development
Elizabeth Brown
Chief People Officer
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CFO
John Cheng
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Leena Viitanen
Senior Community Manager
Mickey Maher
Senior Director of Business Development
Julie Shumaker
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Laetitia Santore
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Mike Acton
Principal Engineer
Andreas Fredriksson
Principal Engineer
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United
OneSignal becomes first Unity Verified Solutions Partner for messaging
The first for a messaging solution
Welcome Aboard
Unity welcomes Luis Felipe Visoso as SVP and CFO
"Luis comes to Unity with great experience honed at some of the world's most respected companies"
Moving On
Amazon Luna boss Marc Whitten departs the company
Exec has taken a role at Unity
Competition
Unity claims its "real competition" is companies still making own engines, not Epic
But CFO Jabal points out the firm's dominance over the Fortnite maker in many areas
Making Changes
Unity details changes coming to its 2020.1 update
Package manager and workflows have been upgraded
Help To Learn
Unity makes its premium learning tools permanently free
"The COVID-19 pandemic has led to millions of jobs lost globally"
On The Rise
Installs by mobile players have increased by 84 per cent according to Unity
Ad impressions have increased by 50 per cent
Pgc Digital
PGC Digital: Unity's Slava Taraskin makes some bold predicitions for H2 2020
Q3 will see an increase in use of all game types
Bolt From The Blue
Unity acquires scripting tool Bolt
"Bolt becoming an official Unity product is a major and exciting leap forward for visual scripting"
Staying Safe
Unity isn't attending physical events for 2020
Firm's own Unite show goes digital-only
Artomatix Acquisition
Unity Technologies acquires AI specialist Artomatix
For an undisclosed sum
Using Unity
Riot Games will use Unity for two upcoming projects
Legends of Runeterra and League of Legends: Wild Rift built using the engine
Acquisitioon
Unity Technologies snaps up Furioos cloud engine firm Obvioos
Building out the stack
Idle Farming Empire
GameTune research shows that the length of game tutorial helped Futureplay find the best performance
"Big numbers are not always the best results"
Paid >< Organic
Paid traffic is just as valuable as organic, says Unity senior marketing manager
Tracy Joseph made the statement during her talk on Busting Mobile User Acquisition Myths
Cut It Up
Player segmentation the best way to get “most bang for your buck” when monetising
So says Unity Ads' Ilya Kuznetsov at Unite Copenhagen 2019
Access All Areas
New platform Unity Learn Premium aims to help teach real-time 3D development
Available at no further cost for Plus and Pro subscribers or $15 a month
Banner Up
Unity Ads SDK 3.0 features personalised placements, AR and banner ads
Personalised placements uses machine learning to decide between an ad or IAP promotion
Come Together
Unity aims to double down on mobile at Unite Berlin
A look ahead at what to expect from the conference in June
Nested Prefabs
Unity's big roadmap for 2018 includes machine learning, IAP Promo and a new rendering pipeline
Technology firms shows signs of a busy year ahead
Game Dev Challenge
$250,000 Unity and Universal contest gives game devs access to IP such as Battlestar Galactica and Back to the Future
Other famous franchises to play with include Turok, Voltron and Jaws
Uniting People
Unity hires two ex-Insomniac Games lead engineers to head up new Los Angeles studio
Mike Action and Andres Fredriksson take on new jobs as Principal Engineers
Unity Ios 11
Unity rolls out support for iOS 11 and ARKit
Get your games ARKit ready with relative ease
Ask Yourself
Oscar Clark suggests nine ridiculous questions every game developer should ask themselves
Silly questions with a serious heart
Job News
Unity names first independent board members
Robynne Sisco and Max Levchin offer their business experience
Tweeting Made Easier
New Twitter Kit for Unity SDK lets players tweet inside their mobile games
Development tool also made open source
Rewarding Partnership
Zynga makes Unity exclusive rewarded advertising partner
To be integrated into all publisher's games that already use rewarded ads
Going On Up
Unity’s Andy Brammall leaves after seven years to join middleware firm Spirit AI
Takes up role of Director of Sales and Consulting
Unity 2017
Unity 2017.1 launches with Timeline, Cinemachine, improved analytics, and more
New year-based numbering system finally in effect
Unity For Everyone
"People have been using Unity for non-gaming things for years"
Product Manager Mike Wuetherick talks Timeline, Cinemachine and opening Unity to everyone
United Front
First ever Unite India to run alongside NASSCOM Game Developer Conference in November 2017
Events will run alongside each other at the same venue
Unite Europe 2017 Lessons
Five things we learned at Unite Europe 2017
From a bigger focus on mobile to a push away from games altogether
Unity Investment
Unity scores $400 million investment from equity firm Silver Lake
Values developer at $2.6 billion
Revolution Not Evolution
Unity's John Riccitiello: The world would be a better place if there were more creators
The tech firm's CEO discusses China, artists, designers and education
Big Ambitions
Unity set to triple Indian workforce as it eyes industries outside of games
Game engine firm sets sights on AR and VR domination
New Platforms
Final Unity 5 update gets Google Daydream, Nintendo Switch and Vulkan support
Latest release also offers improved graphics performance for Metal
Unity Without Borders
Unity opens Unity Without Borders program to support developers affected by US travel ban
A free trip to Unite Europe and help with visa applications on offer
Github For Unity
GitHub introduces extension for Unity to allow devs easier access to code resources
Also includes storage for large binary assets
Progressive Unity
Unity 5.6 to add native Vulkan API support when it launches on March 31st
Xiaomi partnership now in effect too
Big Numbers
Unity mobile games downloaded 16 billion times in 2016
Figure represents 31% growth from 2015
Unity Gdc Keynote
Unity's GDC keynote to show off new and unnanounced games alongside advancements in AR and VR
Streaming worldwide from 4:30pm GMT on February 28th
Unite The World
Unity to sponsor 50 developers from countries affected by Trump's travel ban to attend Unite Amsterdam
"I strongly believe that there is no place in this world for discrimination, in any form," says Riccitiello
Mobile Market 2016
Mobile games generated $40.6 billion in revenues worldwide in 2016
SuperData and Unity come together for a report
Job Hire
Unity swoops for ex-Bungie staffer as new Director of Global Graphics
Natalya Tatarchuk responsible for driving forward rendering tech and graphics performance
Worth It?
Is it even worth being a mobile games indie in 2017?
Oscar Clark asks some indies
Riccitiello On Vr
Unity CEO John Riccitiello holds firm on belief that VR won't be mainstream until 2020
Also reveals himself as a BLT lover
New Year New Unity
Unity 5.6 to be the last in the development cycle as the game engine moves onto Unity 2017
Due to launch in March 2017
The Journey So Far
Jobs in Games: Unity's Aras Pranckevičius on how to get a job as a Graphics Programmer
Some top tips on building a career in programming
Advancing Ai
Unity pushes on into artificial intelligence efforts with new VP of AI and Machine Learning
Dr Danny Lange joins from Uber