Unity Technologies has announced the long list of amazing projects included in the 2013 Unity Awards taking place during the company’s signature Unite 2013 conference taking place in Vancouver this August 28 – 30. Additionally, more information about the conference session schedule and sponsors has been released. The Unity Awards celebrate the talent and creativity from the Unity community, comprised of more than two million developers.
Categories for this year’s awards include:
Best Student Project
Best 3D Visual Experience
Best 2D Visual Experience
Best Gameplay
Best Non-game Project
Best VizSim Project
Technical Achievement
Community Choice
Golden Cube For Best Overall Project
Finalists were selected from a pool of nearly 375 submissions and winners will be chosen by Unity Technologies employees aside from Community Choice, which will be voted on by the Unity community of developers. The Unity Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, August 29 during the Unite 2013 conference. For a complete list of finalists in each category, please see the Awards Page.
Additionally, more session and sponsor information from the Unite 2013 conference has been made available on the Unity website. Sessions this year include talks from several Unity Technologies staff and from development professionals across the world, including members of:
Behaviour Games
Blackbird Interactive
Interactive Labs
Monkey Squad
Psyops
Threaks
Sponsors, who will be exhibiting their Unity related development tools, product, and hardware at the conference include:
ARM
Autodesk
BlackBerry
Exit Games
Facebook, Inc.
The Foundry
GameAnalytics
Immersion Corporation
Leonard3Do International
Microsoft
Mixamo & Allegorithmic
Nintendo
Nokia
NVIDIA
Oculus VR
Qualcomm
Reallusion
Side Effects Software
Simplygon
Sony
Unity Studios
UnityVS
The Unite 2013 conference will kick off on Wednesday, August 28 at the Vancouver Convention Centre with a keynote address from David Helgason, Joachim Ante, and Lucas Meijer with guest keynote presentation given by space adventurer and gaming guru Richard Garriott de Cayeux. Garriott’s Ultima series is one of the most successful and longest-running franchises in entertainment software history and helped define the massive MMORPG landscape. His talk will draw on that expertise and current Unity-based Kickstarter project Shroud of the Avatar.
Unite 2013 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. The conference offers three days of learning including advanced hands-on class tutorials, technical sessions, previews of upcoming technology as well as the chance to network in a creative and energetic environment and awesome parties.
Unity Technologies will also host a separate Unity Training Day event at the Vancouver Convention Centre on August 27 to give new and inexperienced users a foundation for Unity development before the big show begins. This year the training day will focus on hands-on tutorials where attendees build a small project over a full day of information-packed sessions covering everything from the initial setup of a scene to basic retargeting and animation in Mecanim and particle effect generation in Shuriken.