UNITY GAME DEVELOPMENT

Games are a profitable business, and the highest grossing projects bring huge profits to their owners. According to analysts from SuperData Research, this market is valued at $ 126.6 billion, and its volume is only growing every year.

By the end of 2020, shareware projects became more profitable, and Honor of Kings was at the top, bringing its owners $ 2.45 billion. Call of Duty Modern Warfare is in the lead among paid games, with a gross of $ 1.91 billion.

These numbers make the market attractive for new developments. Especially considering that gamers are constantly looking for and willingly testing new items.

In this article, we’ll talk about Unity, a 2D and 3D computer game development environment that is one of the most popular today. According to statistics, about 47% of modern games are developed on it. In particular, it is used by publishers such as Blizzard, Disney, and NASA.

The main advantage of Unity is cross-platform. The project developed here can be run simultaneously on 25 operating systems, including Windows, IOS, Android, and game consoles. And all this without additional modifications. This means that the project can be promoted on several platforms at once, reach a larger number of gamers and, accordingly, earn more money on it. The benefits of Unity don’t end there. Here are the main ones:

• A huge library of ready-made plugins that significantly speeds up development, and therefore – reduces costs. For example, you can save on creating levels, character models, and even AI behavior patterns. V Unity has ready-made templates for this that you can use absolutely free.

• To work with the Unity environment, developers only need knowledge of the C # language, which reduces the cost of hiring expensive programmers.
• Unity has tools for creating complex animations, and realistic physics of the interaction of different bodies, which allows you to create the most believable graphics.
• Objects are constructed in Unity using a modular component system, which greatly simplifies development and reduces the likelihood of critical optimization problems and game bugs.

The development of a computer game is a complex process, therefore, to avoid chaos, it is conventionally divided into several stages:

• Briefing and preparation of technical documentation. The AVADA-MEDIA manager communicates with you and then formalizes your wishes into a clear terms of reference for the developers.
• Prototyping. At this stage, prototypes are created for individual parts of the game. Then they are combined into a single whole and form the base gameplay. This is necessary in order to work out and weed out non-working ideas in advance, and not spend money on their implementation.
• Pre-production. A so-called vertical cut is created, within which 1-2 finished levels are tested with fully working mechanics.
  This allows you to understand, even before the main development, how the future game will be played and felt. This is necessary in order to timely identify errors, and improve or change something.

• Production. At this stage, the developers clearly understand what and how they need to do, and create the server – Back End, and client – Front End parts of the game.
• Technical testing. After development, all parameters of the game are carefully tested to provide future players with only a positive experience from interacting with the product.
• A / B testing. At these stages, game testing involves directly players, and gives feedback on the product. This gives opportunity to modify
• Release. The game is officially launched and published in app stores.
• Support. After the release, the development of the game does not end. So that the project does not lose relevance among users, it constantly needs to be improved, enhanced and adapted.

Gamedev on Unity boasts many hits. Consider a few of the most popular projects that are loved by players around the world:

• Temple Run – the game is rightfully considered the main Unity project of 2011 and, at one time, was installed on almost every smartphone.
• Superhot is a Polish developer’s project that has generated 1.5 million sales across various platforms.
• Cuphead is a legendary platformer that has sold 5 million copies.
• Pathfinder: Kingmaker – Funds for the development of the project were raised on Kickstarter. Gamers liked it so much that a record amount of $ 2.3 million was raised to create the sequel.

• Pokemon Go is a worldwide augmented reality game
• Rust is a survival game that sold over 5 million copies in 2016.
• League of Legends: Wild Rift is probably the main development on Unity in recent years, which was released in late 2020. In less than a year, the project in the genre of MOBA, Action / RPG brought developers $ 64.7 million in profit and was downloaded by players more than 2 million times. Not only implementation but also the initial idea is important in the development of game. It can be an improved analogue of a product existing on the market, or a completely unique development that will conquer the entire gaming world. Unity’s technical capabilities allow you to develop projects of any complexity.

AVADA-MEDIA has been creating high-load projects for domestic and foreign businesses for more than 10 years. We use the latest technology to create innovative products.

If you have an idea for a game that can be profitable – contact us. We will undertake the entire technical part of the work and, based on our experience, will give recommendations for the development of the project.