In just some years, Unity has become a premier game development engine that has encouraged indie developers everywhere in the world to create expansive titles for PC, consoles and mobile. With Unity 4, the engine is able to tackle big budget game development, and Windows 8 is invited along for the ride.

Unity announced that Unity 4.2 is now available to Windows 8 developers as portion of a Windows Store apps early access program. Developers can use the recent tools available in Unity 4.2 to create games for both x86 and ARM-based systems. It also supports DirectX 11 so games can make the most all of the newest technologies available to developers.

“With the beta of the Unity 4 game engine for Windows 8, all the Unity community of one.5 million developers can start quickly building games for Windows 8,” said John Richards, Senior Director of Windows Apps Marketing for Microsoft. “The variety of fine Unity-based games already created for PC, Xbox and mobile devices is impressive, and we’re excited to work out the fantastic games the community brings to Windows 8 with Unity.”

As portion of the early access program, developers can be capable of port games to the Windows Store platform using the Unity 4.2 beta builds. All registered participants inside the beta will receive a two month trial license a good way to unlock Windows Store app platform support inside the Unity toolset.

It must be noted that any games created for Windows 8 using this beta is simply not available for commercial release. It’s meant to aid developers get a feel for developing with Unity at the Windows 8 platform. Folks that want to commercially release their games on Windows 8 using Unity 4.2 may want to buy a whole license when the general public commercial release of Unity comes out. In the event you can’t look ahead to that, which you could contact the Unity Sales team to see a deal to publish a game using the Unity 4.2 beta.