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Getting the right assistance at the right time While she will ask a programmer to review the shaders for performance before they go into the game, “the Unity tools encourage creativity and take some pressure off our developers since they no longer have to build everything from scratch.” Without naming any key feature, I would say this is ‘the Big Win’ for us.”Īnd she jokes that she’s “noticed that our programmers are no longer being asked to move things two pixels to the left or do other trivial things like that.” More seriously, she likes that their artists do a lot more experimenting now and can propose things such as new shaders. On the previous engine, we needed our programmers to do a large part of the visual integration and now the artists can do more on their own. Moving to Unity proved a fundamental switch for Ludia because the internal engine had been a programmer-centric development environment, whereas Beaubien says “Unity is not like that – it’s content-centric where everyone can contribute to the game, which appealed to us since we integrate a lot of content using tools like 3ds Max.”Ĭatherine Barbeau, Lead Programmer on Jurassic World Alive, concurs: “With Unity, our artists are more autonomous and less dependent on programmers. Game crash rate is much lower on Unity-based games than other games The game renders in several hours vs half a day for the pre-Unity version

Less expensive than developing and supporting an internal engine More autonomy for artists and fewer bottlenecks in the production pipeline Unity Enterprise Support, onsite experts and training made for a smooth conversion Ludia – a veteran, 350-person studio known for best-selling titles such as Jurassic World: The Game, Battlestar Galactica, What’s Your Story?, and Dragons: Rise of Berk – not only met their launch date but also benefited from workflow enhancements and cost reductions. With millions of pre-registered players eagerly awaiting the Ludia/Universal Games and Digital Platforms launch, Unity stepped in with Enterprise Support, onsite experts, and a wide range of training options. Moving a major title from one game engine to another halfway through development takes strategic planning, rigorous migration processes, and timely training.