Unity Technologies has released a free public beta of their Unity 4.0 game engine. Unity 4.0 has Linux publishing support among many other new features.
Earlier, developers had to pre-order Unity 4.0 to test out Linux support.
Unity Technologies has added Linux publishing support recently to their popular Unity3D game engine.
With the latest Unity 4.0, developers who wish to provide a Linux version of their game can easily compile source code with the built-in export option and make binaries for Linux platform. Two Unity games, Rochard and Cubemen have already been released for Lin
Unity Technologies adding Linux publishing support to their Unity3D game engine is doing lots of good to Linux gaming.
Two million dollar Unity based game projects, Wasteland 2 and Project Eternity have already announced Linux support.
Yesterday we reported that some game studios have added Linux support to their Unity3D games. Now couple of more Unity3D games are coming to Linux.
As Linux publishing support is available only in Unity 4 mostly new games who are using latest version of the engine are adding Linux support.
With Unity Technologies finally adding Linux publishing support in Unity 4.0 beta, game developers can now compile and run their games on Linux.
Some announcement have been made in last few days by game studios, confirming Linux support for their Unity games.
The Unity 4.0 game engine has been officially released a few days ago, on November 13, bringing support for Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu. Canonical, through John Pugh, proudly informed us on November 15 that the 4.0 release of the Unity game engine will officially support publishing to the Ubuntu platform, via Ubuntu Software Center.
Almost everyday, game developers are confirming Linux support for their games based on the popular Unity3D game engine.
We have covered many Unity games in past that have confirmed Linux support.
Unity Technologies has finally added Linux publishing support taking cues from success of Humble Indie Bundles and Ubuntu Software Center.
History
A couple of times we reported that Unity developers are working on a Linux port on FAFFs (Fridays Are For Fun) over last two years.
Unity Technologies announced Linux publishing support for Unity 4, next version of their popular game engine.
Lots of Game Studios were waiting for this announcement and within just couple of days, some Game Studios have added Linux support.
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