The Lego Group - the company responsible for the colourful plastic bricks that have been used to build everything from Portal test chambers to a GTX 1660-powered gaming PC - recently unveiled a partnership with Unity, allowing fans to build Lego-based games in the process of learning game creation. Now, the company is looking at potentially publishing the best fan games that emerge from that partnership.
The Lego Microgame is a learning tool for Unity that introduces the basics of the Unity engine through pleasantly familiar Lego bricks. It's downloadable from the Unity store, and you can use it to snap together your own Lego game with easy-to-use, ready-made assets.
In a recent episode of the Bits N' Bricks podcast, co-hosts Ethan Vincent and Brian Crecente spoke with Lego Group senior technical lead Anders Holm, who said the company is examining the feasibility of publishing fan-made games using Unity's Lego Microgame, similar to the way fan creations can be turned into official physical Lego sets through the Lego Ideas platform.
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