Voting Begins In Unity Dashboard Widget Challenge

Written by Jonathan Czeck | Monday, August 29, 2005

Thirteen 3D Dashboard Widget games created in just two weeks by as many teams are now up for public voting. At least four of those teams were comprised of iDevGames regulars. Six of the Widgets have been open-sourced under a BSD license by their creators so that others may learn from their work (and mistakes). Visit the site and vote for your favorite widget! Created by 13 individuals and small teams with many different skills and backgrounds, there are action games, puzzle games, puzzling games, polished games, cool gameplay ideas, remakes, each Widget game quite quite dazzling. The Widgets in the contest were created using Unity, a 3D game editor which happens to contain one of the most advanced game engines in the Universe.

The only Mac-like tool to create 3D games, it is packed with power and built to meet the demands of next-generation game developers. Apart from Dashboard Widgets, Unity produces Mac and Windows standalone games, and games can be deployed to be played in Mac-based web-browsers. (Hint: because of limitations of Dashboard, the Widgets run somewhat slower than they should in there. Therefore you can press Cmd-F (or click a full-screen icon) to switch them to full-screen mode.) Everyone who likes small and free games is encouraged to come over and try out as many as will tempt them. Afterwards you can head over to the forum to throw your Ballot on the Widget you love the most.

Related Links: The Unity Dashboard Widget Challenge
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