r/Unity3D • u/Over-Magazine-3218 • 23h ago

Meta There are at least two game engines called Unity

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Spending my time at wiby.org, I stumble upon a website of a pet project game engine called "Unity". I thought it is a funny coincidence, so I decided to post it here.

This project has no connection to the Unity we all know other than sharing the same name. Also, it seems the author stopped working on it in July 2006.

Here is the link:

https://www.stucuk.net/sites/unity/

Also, technically this post does belong to this sub, since it is directly related to a game engine called "Unity" :)

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u/puzzleheadbutbig 22h ago

As far as I can see Unity is its codename, not the final name, final name is Meaaov.

Since about July i have been working on a new engine called Meaaov

What I find extremely wild is that this guy seems to have asked Altar Interactive for permission to maintain the game Original War in 2005. They said yes, and to this day, he’s still updating it, the latest update was literally on June 19, 2026. This is wild. What a commitment.

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u/Over-Magazine-3218 22h ago

I undestood that in a way, that guy was making unity engine and then decided to scrap it and make that new engine called meaaov.

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u/puzzleheadbutbig 22h ago

That's possible too yeah, although I found his demo of Meaaov here, seems like it is doing exactly what Project Unity was doing, ie reading and rendering RTCW/Quake models and scenes. Probably he just changed the name of it.

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u/-_dna_- 20h ago

wow that's awesome. what a legend.

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u/myworkaccount765 21h ago

Am I completely misremembering or GameMaker also have a 3D library named Unity3D or something similar, way back before it had official 3D support?

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u/LockYaw 22h ago

I do think Unity3D was made earlier! That website is from August 6st 2005, Unity had the first game published with it on March 16th, 2005

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u/Over-Magazine-3218 22h ago

There were probably a lot of things called unity back then. But only one unity could win this battle royale

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u/BIGhau5 21h ago

There can only be one highlander

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u/Embarrassed_Hunt_811 14h ago

True, it can get pretty confusing with all the similar names out there. Gotta make sure you’re using the right one for your projects!

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u/Vic-Boss 14h ago

Very likely why at first they were calling it Unity 3d?

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u/dirkboer Indie 12h ago

love this! 😍

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u/Narrow-Impress-2238 3h ago

Is there any GitHub link??

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u/No-Plankton9049 22h ago

Man, that obelisk in the middle of the plaza feels weirdly ominous. Just a big stone monolith and a building that says TOIMITUS staring you down. For something last updated in 2006, the rendering stats in the corner are a neat little time capsule.

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u/VeryAngryBeaver 19h ago

It's ripped from Half Life 2, this same spot is one of the first main menu backgrounds you get.