Taiwan Game Companies Collaborate with Unity to Produce Quality Products
Date: 2015/04/22
Directed by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, III and Unity Technology collectively held “UNITE 2015 TAIPEI” to facilitate the development of Taiwan game industry on April 22nd and 23rd in Taipei New Horizon Building at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.
The event invited Unity Asia General Manager John Goodale and China Country Manager Allen Foo to give speeches at site. There were more than 800 people participating UNITE 2015 TAIPEI, the greatest developer gathering in Taiwan Game Industry. This year, the specialized area, “Taiwan Game Museum”, was established in which well-known large Taiwan game companies, independent firms, and school develop teams exhibited approximately 50 different mobile games.
Unity is the world largest game engine software developer in the industry whose products account for 45 percent of the market share; globally, it has more than 4 million developers and the number of those who played the games applying its engine is more than 0.8 billion and that of game downloads has reached 8.7 billion.
The event invited Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Mr. Jong-Chin, Shen to be present, and witnessed by Director General of IDB Dr. Ming – Ji, Wu, Unity China Country Manager Allen Foo and III Executive Vice President Dr. Gary Gong signed MOU which indicates that the two sides will collaborate in three different areas such as technologies, talents, and market. Combining Unity’s game engine developing capability with Taiwan’s creative talents and market operating capability, companies in Taiwan are able to create quality products of their own and cultivate necessary professionals for Taiwan game industry so that in the future, there is the possibility that Taiwan domestic-produced games could be sold around the world.
There were also 10 more important game and video companies attending the event and they signed agreement to assist the development of Taiwan game industry collectively such as Wayi International Digital Entertainment, Chinesegamer International, Gamania Digital Entertainment, Softstar Entertainment, UserJoy Technology, InterServ International, XPEC Entertainment, Lager Network Technologies, Rayark, Runewaker Entertainment, GrandTech C.G. Systems, and Amazing Film Studio. By Unity 3D engine technology, these companies will launch quality domestically produced games that can be operated on various platforms and provide qualified digital content products and services such as virtual reality (VR) in the fields like medical treatment, transportation, architecture, and arts etc. Inevitably, the move will lead to an omni-directional improvement in the digital content industry in our country.
Directed by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, III and Unity Technology collectively held “UNITE 2015 TAIPEI” on April 22nd .Witnessed by Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Mr. Jong-Chin, Shen (middle), Director General of IDB Dr. Ming-Ji, Wu (Second from the right), and Unity Asia General Manager John Goodale (Second from the left), Unity China Country Manager Allen Foo (first from the left)and III Executive Vice President Dr. Gary Gong (first from the right) signed MOU. In the future, the two sides will cooperate with each other concretely in the fields of technology, human resource and market.
III held “UNITE 2015 TAIPEI” on April 22nd and invited Vice Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Mr. Jong-Chin, Shen (third from the right at the front row), Director General of IDB Dr. Ming-Ji, Wu (first from the right at the front row), III Executive Vice President Dr. Gary Gong (Second from the left at the front row), Unity Asia General Manager John Goodale (Second from the right at the front row), and the representatives of domestic game companies collectively participating in the launching ceremony.
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