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March 17 - Unity Technologies

Metanomics interviewed product evangelist Tom Higgins about Unity Technologies, a game company that has been revolutionizing game content since 2005 on Wednesday, March 17 at 12pm PST.

Host Robert Bloomfield interviewed Tom Higgins on a number of aspects of Unity’s projects and approach, including his position as Product Evangelist. Tom is extremely active on the company’s blog, in the community forums and at conferences, just to name a few. Unity recently released information on some of their new projects at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, including a new deal with MySpace, a Battlestar Galactica MMO and mobile projects, among others.

Unity Technologies uses their Unity platform to create games and other services across a wide variety of systems including consoles, PC and mobile. They also recently announced Unity 3.0, which includes support for both Android and Playstation 3, as well as launching support for iPad before the new Unity platform comes out.

Tom discussed how the market has welcomed the Unity Platform, their multi-pronged approach to a wide variety of consoles and systems as well as their many users, which include Coca-Cola, Electronic Arts, LEGO and NASA, along with hundreds of small developers, small studios and students.

Guest Biographies

Tom Higgins

Tom Higgins experience with computers started at a young age when his parents purchased an Apple II+ for their home, setting into motion a passion for computers and software development. That passion found an outlet when he was hired by Macromedia. After nearly a decade working on Director and the Shockwave Player, Tom joined the Unity team. When not at work, you’ll find him on the road traveling or at the track racing motorcycles. Tom is based in San Francisco and is the Product Evangelist for Unity.

Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies is revolutionizing the game development industry and was named one of the top five game companies of 2009 after just four years on the market. Today Unity Technologies has more than 100,000 registered users worldwide – including leading companies like Cartoon Network, Coca-Cola, Electronic Arts, LEGO and NASA, large and small studios, independent professionals, students and hobbyists – using the Unity platform to develop high performance interactive 3D content for the Web, mobile and console. Unity Technologies is one of the fastest growing software companies and is aggressively innovating to expand usability, power and platform reach so that it can deliver on its vision of democratizing interactive 3D technology. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has development offices worldwide.