A new study published recently show that women outspend men. As reported by gamasutra
In their second annual survey on “Virtual Goods Market Penetration and Growth in North America,” the two firms found that the median of digital goods purchases grew 67 percent from $30 in 2009 to $50 in the current year. [...]
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Noir
who has written 24 posts for 2 Cents on MMOs.
Jul
22
2010
22
2010
Has the game industry finally figured out women?
Jul
17
2010
17
2010
Unity 3D and Web Pages Article 1: Represent
So what is the use of a web plugin if you can’t actually control what’s going on in the plugin from the web page it is part of? This is the first of a small series of articles on integration between the Unity 3D plugin and the web page it sits in.
Background
After a long, day [...]
Apr
23
2010
23
2010
Unity Speaks about Apple Terms of Service
it a communication with developers today Unity had this to say about Apple’s OS4.0 Terms of Service:
A Brief Word About Apple iPhone OS 4
As most folks already know, Apple introduced a new Terms of Service (ToS) with their iPhone OS 4 that has some Unity users concerned. While we don’t yet have a definitive statement [...]
Jan
22
2010
22
2010
Social media is like a river
Hey, You!
Maby you want to create a more productive work environment. Maby you are astounded by the volume of applications created for systems like facebook, the iPhone, Unity, Flash.
Maby you are just disgusted by the volume of flash games out there compared to the volume of apps that actually help people be more productive, accomplish [...]
Dec
25
2009
25
2009
Season’s greetings!
Sending Happy Wishes to everyone I have had the pleasure of spending time with. I hope I have enriched your lives as much as you all have enriched mine!
Dec
1
2009
1
2009
Social media pushing computing to a tipping point
Virtual Fish are bigger than the Superbowl
Cafe’ world, Zynga’s fastest growing game. It is estimated to have
over 100 million unique active visitors per month. In ad market terms, that is 1/3 the US population. Compare that to the superbowl (nearly 100 million according to neilson).
One of the interesting facts that I took away from the [...]
Nov
21
2009
21
2009
XML and Unity3D
I needed to be able to save game state, and I wanted to communicate back and forth with websites, and I needed the files to be human readable, and I needed it to be easy [I have been told I am very needy]. The best thing for me to do was to figure out how [...]
Nov
17
2009
17
2009
Welcome to the 21st century, New with Video Tutorials
Let google be your guide, teacher and mentor
In other words “If you want to do something with a technology, someone somewhere has likely done it already and have bogged about it, and likely shot a video tutorial posted on youtube and vimo”.
Oct
31
2009
31
2009
An untalked about virtual Currency: Achievement Currency?
Achievement Currency, a type of reward for doing accomplishing a goal in the virtual economy.
Sep
11
2009
11
2009
They grow up to be so big
Having objects just “appear” may be cool on stage, but in a game, it’s kinda lame. I needed my game objects to “grow” into place so they would catch the players eye.
How to do that in Unity3d? well the unity 3d web forums gave me a hint.
Bottom line is to use the Coroutine function yeild, [...]