My thoughts exactly! It's indeed a bit of a no-brainer.

Though I think i'll finish my project I have currently, and any next project will be done under Unity.
I'll be around for a year or so... but hey, that's probably when they'll release U3 as well

regards,

uh oh! it will get really hard for gamestudio. i also think it has to find some niche to survive but i don't see which one yet? the free unity actually covers most areas i can think of and it has the advantage that you aren't stuck with it (feature-wise and platform-wise) once you have created something nice.

i also look forward to working more with unity and improving my c# skills. i just would prefer if they used collada instead of fbx.

Well, Blender 2.5 can import Collada, and export FBX. Voila

Yeah, i know, it`s not this easy. But worth a try ^^

Yes, the niches are getting smaller now. Unity even covers Android-based mobile phones now. And the maker of Irrlicht just released an engine for the upcoming WebGL (natively running in browsers). So right from my head there is only Symbian left as another OS for mobile phones, that needs a nice game engine, could be even 2d in the beginning.

gamestudio is going to die soon. Unity3d is a beast now! it dominates this whole indie game developer business. Just the fact that when you create something awesome they give you the choice of publishing it as an iPhone app (very popular), Android app, iPad app, wii game, web browser game, or simply a cpu game is enought for me.Not to mention that you can you use shaders for free.The only "niche" gamestudio has is that its users dont really want to learn c# or any new language.i'm willing to sacrifice a month or 2 for all the features unity has.

uhmmmm why does it seem like everyone is over looking that a7 is much cheaper than unity, and yes im know im going to get the *oh well unity has a free version* well unities free version is about exactly the same feature wise and gstudios free version, and comm is only 200... unity doesnt have a comm level.

Unity is great I had an issue with it's state management system, which is seemingly going to get worked out. I might just switch back to complete my project.

hm... i see quite some differences actually...

some examples:

While reading the 3dgs free feature list, you could also add to unity free list: Decals, Multiplayer, Isometric Rendering, but substract realtime shadows.

And it doesn't really need one. Unity's free version just like Shiva's free version is a pretty perfect entry version. You can start to develop your games with those versions for free and once you see that things come along nicely you actually buy the full thing and in the case of unity e.g. get all the additional eyecandy like dynamic shadows & stuff. For Gamestudio with no shaders, bad editors and so on the start is by far not that great and complete...

I also do not think that Unity's cost are any problem for a serious developer. If you think of having created a game that sells well even if just on an Indie scale level you should have no problem in paying the bills for Unity. That also might reveal a niche 3DGS might fit in and that's the really low budget sector also aiming at those who just do it for fun and don't really plan to release a game that sells so well they even might live from it. That also lowers the bar for the needed features by a lot which is quite accomodating for 3DGS. You would need some easy accessible editors though and currently this fails horribly especially as WED never made its step past the cube code base (or whatever it was that got bought and used to be WED's base from the first days - it sort of was advertised as a feature in the A4 days ) from the last millenium...