San Francisco, Calif. - Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for games and interactive 3D on the Web, iOS, Android, consoles, and beyond, announced the finalists for the 2011 Unity Awards. The finalists were chosen from an extensive list of games, entertainment, and apps made with the Unity engine. Winners will be announced at Unite 11, Unity Technologies' fifth annual developer conference taking place September 28 through 30, 2011 at the Masonic Center in San Francisco.
Unity Award finalists display some of the best and brightest professional and amateur talent within the video game industry across platforms from iOS and Facebook to PlayStation 3 and PC.
The finalists in each category are:
Student
-- 1916 - Der Unbekannte Krieg (Team 2 DADIU)
-- Blokhead (Annie Dickerson)
-- Branch (Awesome Games DADIU)
-- Broken Dimensions (Team Twisted DADIU)
-- GLiD (GLiD)
-- Unstoppaball (Matthew Zarzecki)
Non-Game
-- A+E 3D (Apluse)
-- Aircraft Marshalling Virtual Trainer (Heartwood Inc.)
-- CliniSpace (CliniSpace)
-- Let's Create! Pottery HD (Infinite Dreams)
-- Tiga Talk Speech Therapy Games (Tactica Interactive)
-- Virtual History Roma (Mondadori Digital)
Cross-Platform
-- BattleBall (Schell Games)
-- Buddy Rush (Sollmo)
-- Margaritaville Online (Exploding Barrel Games)
-- Shadow Era (Wulven Game Studios)
-- UberStrike (Cmune Games)
Graphics
-- Cordy (SilverTree Media)
-- Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
-- Mini Motor Racing (The Binary Mill)
-- Rochard (Recoil)
-- Siegecraft (Crescent Moon Games)
-- Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
Gameplay
-- BasketDudes (Bitoon)
-- King's Bounty: Legions (Nival Interactive)
-- Pulse: Volume One (Cipher Prime)
-- Rochard (Recoil)
-- Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
-- Snuggle Truck (Owlchemy Labs)
Grand Prix
-- BasketDudes (Bitoon)
-- Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
-- Battlestar Galactica Online (Artplant, BigPoint)
-- Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
-- Rochard (Recoil)
-- Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
Community Choice
-- BasketDudes (Bitoon)
-- Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
-- Battlestar Galactica Online (Artplant, BigPoint)
-- Boccia (Sainsbury or Preloaded?)
-- Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
-- Marvel Super Hero Squad Online (Gazillion)
-- Monkey Quest (Behavior, Nickelodeon)
-- Runespell (Mystic Box)
-- Snuggle Truck (Owlchemy Labs)
-- UberStrike (Cmune Games)
To cast a vote for the Community Choice award, simply visit
http://unity3d.com/awards/!