Unity Technologies has announced that their Unity engine and tools now have over 1 million registered developers and over 6 million total downloads, up from 250,000 registered developers at the end of 2010. The Unity Web Player has also reached 125 million installs, with an estimated install on 5 million new computers each month.
“When we released Unity 1.0 back in 2005, we didn’t even dream numbers like that, but simply started by trying to be a great tool for the few hundred customers who adopted Unity,” said David Helgason, CEO of Unity Technologies. “That goal remains the same, as we now use our incredible momentum to improve our products and extend our reach. We are only just getting started!”
The monthly active developer base has also grown to nearly 300,000, or 30 percent of all developers who ever registered with Unity, who put in a total of 2.5 million hours of creative work in the last month. According to statistics recorded by Evans Data in their Developer Population and Demographic Study 2011 v. 2, this means nearly 2 percent of the over 16 million active worldwide software developers (of any kind) are currently using Unity to develop their projects.
