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Unity CEO: Explosive growth helping indie game devs save — and make — big bucks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Unity Technologies chief David Helgason painted a happy picture of the explosive growth of indie game developers using his company’s game development platform.

Speaking today at the Unite 2014 conference in Seattle, Helgason said that the nearly three million Unity users have seen more than 8.7 billion downloads of their apps to date. He added that more than 600,000 developers use the Unity game tools every month. Since Unity finds use from both small and big game developers alike, those numbers are a good proxy for the growth of the indie game economy.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.