Continuing Our Work With Unity — Kin Attends Unite L.A.

In late March, we announced a groundbreaking partnership with Unity Technologies, the leading gaming engine in the world. Since forming this relationship, we’ve learned a lot from Unity developers through one-on-one interviews with game developers, advice from Unity Evangelists, and attending Unite Events.

Unite Los Angeles, the annual conference for the gaming engine’s community that kicks off today, is our next stop on the Unite event circuit. Kin will be onsite for two co-marketing initiatives: a happy hour with Unite developers and an educational pop-up tech talk on the benefits of developing with Kin.

The happy hour, held on Wednesday at 4:30 PM PT at the Ritz-Carlton L.A., will be used as an informal way to engage with Unity developers, while conducting additional research that is required to build the best solution for the gaming engine. Here, we’ll survey attendees to gather more insights into their needs for cryptocurrency and blockchain, and conduct additional one-to-one interviews for individual feedback on our plans.

In a pop-up tech talk on Thursday at 10:00 AM PT, titled “How to build blockchain solutions with Kin,” we’ll showcase the Unity Plugin, a custom extension of the Kin SDK created just for Unity developers. We’ve been quietly building this alongside Unity’s leading Asset Store publisher, Prime31, which has more than 15 years experience building plugins for Unity games.

Our very own Nitzan Tomer, software engineer, and Mike Desaro, founder of Prime31, will lead this talk to introduce Kin to a large group of Unity developers. Nitzan and Mike will also educate them on the process of connecting to the Kin’s Blockchain endpoint, setting up an account, earning and spending Kin, and viewing transaction history on the blockchain.

We are bullish about the potential for cryptocurrency in mobile games and are excited to work with Unity to help game developers understand and integrate cryptocurrency. And Unite L.A. is just one of many co-marketing initiatives to come!

Be sure to follow us on Twitter and Reddit for updates on the Unite/Kin happy hour, and on Thursday’s pop-up tech talk!