Blizzard’s free online card game Hearthstone swept the main prizes at Unite in Seattle. Here, the developers and users of the “Unity” engine honor the best games developed with this engine each year.
The game engine Unity is one of the most widely used game engines in the world. Blizzard’s Hearthstone was also developed on it. Since 2008, the developers of “Unity” have regularly awarded prizes to the best games that run on their engine. One of the biggest advantages of “Unity” is that it allows developers to create games that can easily be ported to various platforms. Thus, a port for Android and iPhone is also planned for Hearthstone.
Previous winners of a “Golden Cube”, the main prize of the event, include “Total War Battles: Shogun” and last year’s winner “Endless Space”.
Hearthstone is likely the largest and most commercially successful game taking home the prize. And David Helgason, the CEO of Unity Technologies, honors this special occasion: In the past, they recognized the developers who created the best games with the Unity engine. Today, they are honoring some of the best games overall.
In addition to the Golden Cube, Hearthstone also won the award for best gameplay.
