Unity Founder Interview

Interview with founder of Unity (amazing middleware for iPhone development), Nicholas Francis at Games Industry Biz.  Catch the full article here: United We Stand.

Nicholas Francis: Over the past few months things have been really good for us – I think we probably had about 17 or 18 people back then, while we’re 44 people today, just from growth and sales.

The iPhone thing took off amazingly, we hadn’t really expected that – I think the development costs were recouped in 36 hours, and in the first four days we made more than what we made in 2005… okay, we didn’t make a lot in 2005, but still. And in the first month we made more than we did in 2006.

By now it’s about 80 per cent of our revenues or so, so it’s just been completely amazing. We recently announced that it’s the most-used iPhone middleware – although because people don’t have to let us know when they release a game, we don’t actually know how many it is…

But by the thread on our own forums alone, where people have posted their releases, we counted 258 titles – but probably a lot more, but we can confirm 258 – which is really great.