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Wii Game Development?
Can the Unity platform create games for the Nintendo Wii game console? If not, is it only used for PC/Mac programming or are there other consoles or platforms?
Thank you Hugs the Hippo
To be short, yes it can.
At more length - in order to publish to the Wii, you must become a certified developer by Nintendo, which is actually quite the process. (It took the company I work for months to be accepted and we were actually denied once initially)
From there you have to purchase the Nintendo Wii Development kit from Nintendo and you will have to contact Unity and purchase the Wii-compatible version of Unity.
Also, Unity announced sometime in the not-too-distant future we will be able to develop for XBox360 as well.
Cheers,
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It costs $15K and I am using it. To program your gameplay you use Scripting languages like C#, javascript or Mono script. The game development is intense for both programming (gameplay) and drag n'drop (Unity editor). Ah I almost forget: it is only compatible with MAC SO and the PC version it is supposed to be out next year at some time. Good luck ;)
As Unity for Wii was available before Unity for Windows, I doubt that Unity for Wii is not available for $$anonymous$$ac OS (simple because at that time, there was only Unity for $$anonymous$$ac OS and no Unity for Windows). However, it can of course very well be that you also need a Windows PC in addition to that setup (e.g. for the Nintendo SD$$anonymous$$).
I retracted my previous comment as I was misinformed. Unity Wii is only available for $$anonymous$$ac OSX with the 2.1 feature set.
I was informed that a 2.6 feature set version of Unity Wii is in the works but nothing more can be said at the moment. The 2.6 version will be available on Windows.
The catch 22 of Unity Wii at the moment is that though it is only available for OSX, the Wii SD$$anonymous$$ is only available on Windows. You can test within Unity via Bluetooth connection with a Wii-mote but as for testing on a provisioned dev machine you will have to switch from OSX to Windows every time to do so.
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Thank you. We have already contacted Nintendo about becoming a registered developer. How much is the Nintendo Wii Development Compatible version of Unity? Also for the XBox360 too?
Is the game development more programming intensive or drag n' drop? If it is programming what language? C++ or C#?
Hugs
I am unaware of the price, you have to contact Unity's sales dept. about licensing. Xbox360 is still undergoing development and won't be out for some time.
The Wii version of Unity will be able to utilize Unity's Javascript, C#, or Boo just like any of the other Unity software. It works the same as the Unity editor you can download for free.
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This is not an answer. Should make it a comment/new question
