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Snuggle Truck, Gears, Battleheart among the Unity Award finalists

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Snuggle Truck, Gears, Battleheart among the Unity Award finalists
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Unity Technologies, the company behind the ubiquitous and self-titled Unity Engine, has announced the finalists for its 2011 awards.

The conference (held in San Francisco at the end of September) is a demonstration of the best and brightest uses of the engine.

There are various categories, including Best Student made Project, Best Gameplay, and Best Graphics – along with a Community Choice section where you can vote for your favourite game out from a list:

Here are's a full list of titles up for awards and their categories:

Student
1916 - Der Unbekannte Krieg (Team 2 DADIU)
Blokhead (Annie Dickerson)
Branch (Awesome Games DADIU)
Broken Dimensions (Team Twisted DADIU)
GLiD (GLiD)
Unstoppaball (Matthew Zarzecki)

Non-Game
A+E 3D (Apluse)
Aircraft Marshalling Virtual Trainer (Heartwood Inc.)
CliniSpace (CliniSpace)
Let's Create! Pottery HD (Infinite Dreams)
Tiga Talk Speech Therapy Games (Tactica Interactive)
Virtual History Roma (Mondadori Digital)

Cross-Platform
BattleBall (Schell Games)
Buddy Rush (Sollmo)
Margaritaville Online (Exploding Barrel Games)
Shadow Era (Wulven Game Studios)
UberStrike (Cmune Games)

Graphics
Cordy (SilverTree Media)
Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
Mini Motor Racing (The Binary Mill)
Rochard (Recoil)
Siegecraft (Crescent Moon Games)
Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)

Gameplay
BasketDudes (Bitoon)
King's Bounty: Legions (Nival Interactive)
Pulse: Volume One (Cipher Prime)
Rochard (Recoil)
Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)
Snuggle Truck (Owlchemy Labs)

Grand Prix
BasketDudes (Bitoon)
Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
Battlestar Galactica Online (Artplant, BigPoint)
Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
Rochard (Recoil)
Sky Legends (Smart Bomb Interactive)

Community Choice
BasketDudes (Bitoon)
Battleheart (Mika Mobile)
Battlestar Galactica Online (Artplant, BigPoint)
Boccia (Sainsbury, Preloaded)
Gears (Crescent Moon Games)
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online (Gazillion)
Monkey Quest (Behavior, Nickelodeon)
Runespell (Mystic Box)
Snuggle Truck (Owlchemy Labs)
UberStrike (Cmune Games)

This marks the fifth of the developer conferences held by Unity Technologies, previous winners including indie sensation Feist and Max and the Magic Marker.

Alex Taylor
Alex Taylor
Living in the Channel Islands, Alex discovered that there were phones not made out of potatoes and milk in 2008. Since then, he only begrudgingly stops playing for long enough to write an article. If he tries to talk to you about open-source software: run