Boxboy+Boxgirl was made in Unity

[Nuclear Muffin]

I caught this interesting little tidbit on Boxboy+Boxgirl's copyright screen...

Looks like it was made in Unity! AFAIK, this is the first time HAL has ever used an external game engine to make a game! (unless Part-time UFO uses Unity, I haven't played it); and only the third time a Nintendo affiliated studio has used an external game engine on a Nintendo platform (The other two being Snipperclips [Unity] and Yoshi's Crafted World [Unreal Engine 4] ).

Interesting to see HAL shift over to using a 3rd party engine, considering that they already have their own HD engine up and running on Switch (with Kirby: Star Allies). I wonder if we'll see them follow up with this with future titles, or if any of Nintendo's other affiliated studios might shift over to external game engines...

I know that Nintendo using middleware isn't something new (Havok has been used since Smash Bros Brawl), but this use of complete, external engines is definitely something new!

 

[ILikeFeet]

it's not that new, Nintendo themselves used Unity for their mobile games and Monolith Soft said they used Unity for prototyping

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

No wonder it runs like shit!

Actually, the demo seemed fine. I didn't notice any problems.

 

[Deleted member 9714]

Unity is a great engine and perfect for games like Boxboy+Boxgirl.

 

[kraftdinner]

Edit: not valid anymore.

 

[Jerm]

?????

I'm looking at reviews on Youtube right now and it seems to run absolutely fine? Care to explain this comment?

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Did you not read the second sentence before reacting?

 

[Why would you do that?]

AFAIK, this is the first time HAL has ever used an external game engine to make a game! (unless Part-time UFO uses Unity, I haven't played it)

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I just checked... Part Time UFO (which you should totally play, btw) uses cocos2D-x.

 

[kraftdinner]

Did you not read the second sentence before reacting?

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There was no second sentence when I reacted?

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

I'm looking at reviews on Youtube right now and it seems to run absolutely fine? Care to explain this comment?

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There was a commonly-held opinion that Unity is a terrible engine that is prone to performance issues. I was just having a bit of fun with that. I think most people accept that it's really just up to the skill of the developer at this point.

 

[Jerm]

There was no second sentence when I reacted?

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lol you even went back and edited it, that's hilarious. It seemed obviously sarcastic based on the usual reactions to Unity but I can see why it would fly over your head.

Anyway, I agree with this

Unity is a great engine and perfect for games like Boxboy+Boxgirl.

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[kraftdinner]

lol you even went back and edited it, that's hilarious. It seemed obviously sarcastic based on the usual reactions to Unity but I can see why it would fly over your head.

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Seems like you're the master of editing yourself lol

In any case,

Unity is a great engine when handled properly.

 

[Dr. Zoidberg]

There was no second sentence when I reacted?

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My original post had it in "Spoiler" tags which used to make the text black that you had to highlight, but when I clicked "post" I saw that it made it completely invisible or something so I edited and removed the tags. Sorry. This did not work out as planned.

 

[kraftdinner]

My original post had it in "Spoiler" tags which used to make the text black that you had to highlight, but when I clicked "post" I saw that it made it completely invisible or something so I edited and removed the tags. Sorry. This did not work out as planned.

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It's alright mang, I understand now where you come from. No biggie!

 

[ASaiyan]

First Yoshi in Unreal and now BoxBoy in Unity. Even Nintendo's experimenting with third-party engines these days.

Frankly, though it may be dangerous to allow Epic/Unity too much leverage over the industry, standardized third party engines mostly seem like a good thing. With how much time and money games cost to make these days it must be wonderful not to have to reinvent the wheel every time.

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Or, in the case of EA's Frostbite initiative, to keep trying to fit a square peg into a round hole...

 

[LuigiBlood]

I just checked... Part Time UFO (which you should totally play, btw) uses cocos2D-x.

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Part Time UFO runs on the same engine as Kirby games, called HEL, which also uses Mint, an in-house interpreted bytecode language, which is linked to cocos2D. HEL is actually a very versatile engine, or perhaps should I say framework...

 

[Fergus Mac Roich]

I've some momentary blips with the framerate in this game. It has a little bit of jerkyness.

It has been fantastic however. The new mechanics in the second half of the game are pretty interesting.

 

[Hucast]

Played the demo and the music is stuck in my head.

 

[SpokkX]

No wonder it runs like shit!

Actually, the demo seemed fine. I didn't notice any problems.

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This!! The game runs like shit. Thanks unity i guess

Has bad framepacing issues

 

[EagleBen]

The frame rate in the demo is not good.

 

[beelulzebub]

No wonder it runs like shit!

Actually, the demo seemed fine. I didn't notice any problems.

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It does have some frame rate issues, both the demo and the full game. Doesn't get in the way of my enjoyment of the game, but worth acknowledging.