Facebook and Unity Technologies, owner of the largest global platform for development of 2D games, 3D, augmented and virtual reality, have announced a partnership to launch something that can be considered a competitor of Steam, Valve’s.
This is a gaming platform for PC that Unity and Facebook are jointly developing. Users can download this platform to their computers and have access to a variety of games. Developers, in turn, will expand his audience taking the games created for iOS and Android now also for computers. The news was announced by the social network on his blog dedicated to developers.
“The Unity and Facebook are joining forces to build new features on the Unity platform to facilitate the export process and game publishing on Facebook” wrote the product marketing manager of the social network, Jack King Choi. “This will allow Unity developers quickly offer their games to more than 650 million users who like to play titles linked to Facebook all month -. a massive community and very involved, which allowed Facebook to pay more than 2.5 billion web game developers in 2015, “said
at this early stage, Facebook will choose a “limited group of developers” to gain immediate access to an alpha version (still closed) version 5.4 of Unity with the new export functionality to Facebook. New developers will be added regularly as the platform is tested.
Anyone interested in participating in the testing phase can apply until August 31 this link.
At this time, Steam platform totals approximately 125 million monthly users. The advantage that Facebook will have is its critical mass, given the impressive number of 1.7 billion social network users.
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