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Re: I know I could look a lot of this up, but by Gutsby 04/04/2014, 10:52am PDT
It's essentially a 3D level editor/manager that lets you run java, C#, and Boo scripts on objects and scenes with the least resistance imaginable. Unreal Engine, for instance, only supports C++. Letting kids who come off a Java course make videogames off the bat is a big part of the appeal. Being a wysiwyg workspace also lets artists get in on putting stuff together quickly. It has a very well designed UI and a lot of concepts that feel practical; if you want a cube to rotate, just select the cube and drop a little C# script that tells it to rotate around an axis of its transform onto it. You want to shoot the cube? Drop the "getshot" script you wrote onto it as well. Being this friendly of a developer environment and having a lot of functions that you'd regularly use in game development baked in makes it incredibly appealing to people who don't have the patience to learn how to write a renderer or work with constant WIP hellholes like UDK.

It also has the Asset Store, which is sort of like an Amazon for videogame feature lists. Need to design conversation trees? Someone wrote a visual editor for that and is selling it for 10 bucks. Need visual scripting because you're a total fucking newb? Get PlayMaker. The standard lerp and slerp tweens not doing it for you? Get iTween for free.

This thing essentially wrecked Epic and Crytek in its first few years of business, and is the driver for their new business models. Games are getting easier to make.
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Has anyone here used Unity? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/04/2014, 7:36am PDT NEW
    Yes. I like it a lot and love talking about it. NT by Gutsby 04/04/2014, 8:04am PDT NEW
        I know I could look a lot of this up, but by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/04/2014, 9:37am PDT NEW
            Re: I know I could look a lot of this up, but by Gutsby 04/04/2014, 10:52am PDT NEW
                Re: I know I could look a lot of this up, but by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/26/2014, 10:30am PDT NEW
    I'll add my 0.02 Euros by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 07/03/2014, 4:27am PDT NEW
 
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