Over on the Unity website, the official notice for Unite 2013 has been published. The Unite conference is a conference put on annually for developers using the Unity platform, and this year it will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

nite 2013 is an event for developers, publishers, enthusiasts and others interested in Unity to come together to learn more about the market-leading platform for creating high-quality video games, training simulations, medical and architectural visualizations and other interactive 3D content—and how to get the most out of it.

And this year, Richard Garriott will be the keynote speaker at the conference:

Space adventurer and gaming guru Richard Garriott de Cayeux will provide keynote insights at Unite 2013. Richard’s Ultima series is one of the most successful and longest-running franchises in entertainment software history and helped define the MMORPG genre. His talk will draw on that expertise and current Unity-based Kickstarter project Shroud of the Avatar.

The Unity folks even sat down with Lord British for a short interview about the Unity engine and the experiences his team have had working with it:

If you’re interested in hearing Richard Garriott deliver the keynote address, event tickets are currently on sale.