Welcome!

We are excited to announce that the Project Tiny Preview package is now available for download. To install it, open the 2018.3 Package Manager in Unity Personal, Plus or Pro, enable Preview Packages, and install the Tiny Mode package.


You will find the Tiny User Manual, API documentation, and sample projects in the package download. We have also produced training videos to help you get started – check them out here.


Right now, Project Tiny is set up to build 2D messaging or social app games and playable ads. We will be implementing additional features for these use cases following this release. You can find more information about them and see examples of playable demos on our Solutions page.


The main goal of this Preview release is to gather feedback on how Tiny Mode is working for you so we can fine-tune the feature set and workflows to fit your needs. Please provide input or ask questions in this forum.

 

This is insanely high quality, thank you. The demos are incredible.

 

Thank you so much for this - I'm so excited for Tiny! I have already gone through the tutorials and I'm experimenting with it already.

 

Finally!

 

@victoria_unity So any plans to support other platforms like android and ios in future? We really can use this to make smaller game bundles for mobile devices.

 

Yes. The engine was written to be highly portable. It’s on our roadmap to allow both native android and ios depolyment. We will be focused on HTML5 for the inital release.

 

This looks really amazing, looking forward to take it for a spin

 

Is there a published roadmap of Unity Tiny for us to read and follow?

 

This is great thanks! Two questions:

1- Is Photon Multiplayer is compatible with TinyMode?

2 - Will all code would need to be coded in ECS?

Please advise.

 

great thanks!
questions; Is FB instant game is compatible with TinyMode?

 

My Packages manager doesn't have tiny mode ??

 

Enable the experimental packages from the Advanced dropdown.

 

I didn't know about Project Tiny until this morning, but it turns out to be exactly what I was missing. Neato, I will give this a whirl.

 

So good!
The ECS inspector with its families, the modules that gets automatically gets added when you add a components, per-Tiny project settings - it's all these non intrusive details that give that quality smell of well polished mahogany.
And when you rebuild, the browser on the iphone automatically updates!
Yes it's full of bugs, but they're good bugs. 1107347,1107346,1107345,1107344

 

And top notch step by step tutorials on youtube! WOW

 

This looks great! Looking forward to giving it a spin.

 

We can't wait for the 3D support in Tiny. Looking forward to it. We'll be testing to see how well it performs for a "larger" web game as soon as we have access to any alpha/beta of 3D support in Tiny.

 

Gonna start a separate thread for this, but I made a step by step video of the entire setup process here!

Super excited about the possibilities for this new mode!

 

Hello, thank you very much, good work!!
I have 3 questions.

• Tiny mode will be able in the future to build desktop Windows binaries, apks, etc.?
• I've seen some videos about the new ECS and the approach here doesn't seem the same, maybe I am wrong or maybe I am thinking about hybrid ECS, but I can't see the Entity Debugger Window and the way Tiny Mode works doesn't seem the same.
  
• What is the reason to have different Tiny mode projects in the same Unity project, behaving the last as a hub to open Tiny projects.
  
  Thank you!

 

Thank you @etienne_unity.

So, about the 2nd answer, then I guess it is worth to practice with Tiny Mode to learn how Unity game development will be in the future (I work in games for PC, PS4... so my interest here is to learn future Unity's ECS paradigm, not the reduced binary sizes), I am right?

About the 3rd one, well that argument could be used too for normal Unity projects. A little bit off topic but maybe it will be interesting to create an easy way to create module projects and the possibility to link them inside other projects to get/access the resources or code from that modules. In fact, my actual motto when programming is "Hire yourself", and with that in mind if a want (i.e.) to make a ninja game, I have 2 projects, one for the game and other one for a kind of framework to make possible ninja style games on Unity. I work simulating I have hired me for making that framework and every time I have to add something to the game I think if that is my work or my hired-me's work with the framework. Thinking that way, the scalability, readability and reusability of the code is so much better.

Best regards

 

I can answer the first part. Our current arcitecture is the same. Learning Tiny will certainly be valuable for what’s to come. I recommended starting with tiny as it’s a great way to get your head around ECS and how to structure a project. A big part of the C# work that’s happening now is to conversge these efforts.

 

Thanks @MBest_Unity,

your answer encourages me even more.

 

I'm excited at the idea of learning something new too!

 

Does Tiny supports the facebook social API?

 

i have read the tiny ECS .
but this is the same from normal project 's ECS ?
then i can build the project between normal and tiny.without need to recode a lot...

 

My First Tiny Game

 

Made with Project Tiny? Congratulations!

 

Im try multiplayer test...

Tiny is great... thanks Unity

 

Wow that's looking great, cool that you can just use websockets from a tiny project! I'm assuming you're calling through to some Javascript library for the communication? (and are using a NodeJS server with it's own logic somewhere)

 

For the client developing my own multiplayer module...

And the server with node + ws + matter.js (for authoritative physics)

 

This has been my learning project (a fantasy bridge builder game): http://www.gaminggarrison.com/uTiny/

(I just realised you could probably embed these games directly on the forum if there was support for it...)

 

My second test multiplayer in https://spacejump.debug64.com/ AWSD MOUSE

 

Hi
I am very excited in learning ECS Pure with Tiny Too !!!!. Since it would be important to learn C#, Do you think if some of them will be ready in GDC 2019?
Thanks
Alejandro

 

First dive into playing around with Tiny.. For some silly reason I insisted on making a 3D game so I've done some pseudo-3D with a projection matrix and heavy exploitation of the Shape2D class .

I'll get some basic patterns in so it isn't a boring random placed mess and host the game up somewhere for people to look at if they're curious. It comes in at a grand 150kb when served with gzip compression.

 

i win

 

Nice one
I've been holding back on doing more with uTiny until C# is out

 

Any chance youd be willing to make your game open source? I wouldnt mind looking at how you did a few things

 

Yah that's a great way to learn new methods for writing in ecs . You never know if you are doing it right

 

Can I use 3D models in Project Tiny or is it truly limited to 2D?

 

I've made my test project (with the FantasyBridgeBuilder game in) public on BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/duncan_stead/unitinytests/src/master/

Apparently BitBucket can do public static hosting, so it gives me ideas of an open source tiny project that hosts it's own output...

 

It's truly 2D only right now. I'm watching GDC to see if they say anything about Project Tiny, but as far as I'm aware 3D is in the pipe, but could be years away.

 

I've posted my 3D Cube Runner clone on GitHub if anyone is interested. I commented the bits I thought might be interesting.

The cubes are spawned in a random pattern from a JSON file - I've been really lame and only added 3 different patterns so it gets boring fast (I'll add some more later!) The game speeds up slowly so it does get a bit more challenging. Was really just an excuse to familiarise myself more with TypeScript!

Sadly there are cases where the UI renders behind the geometry because I have no control over the UI sorting but understandably it wasn't really meant to be used in this way, heh! I forced it to output to Canvas instead of WebGL as there appear to be performance regressions with rendering more than a dozen Shape2D objects on mobile browsers.

Source: https://github.com/JJJohan/TinyCubeRunner
Game: https://renscreations.com/files/cuberunner/

 

awesome!! Thanks

 

Thank you, grateful for this pic.

We waiting for to start project with c#.

When Tiny is fully integrated it will be amazing.

Regards

 

How did you go about implementing matter.js? I am dying over here with my very limited coding abilities trying to code my own joints.