Unity, a Cute Engine for Game Development
Nowadays, Unity is joining the next generation game engine battle between the big ones like UE4 and CryENGINE. Unity 5 has many nice features - with WebGL and 64-bit support it is already a serious contender in the battle ring.
Why is Unity a cute-little game engine?
It has many cool features and an easy to grasp UI. Unity is appealing for its cross-platform integration. Games can be easily ported to iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, which makes it an excellent game engine for both the mobile game development and consoles.
Unity supports assets from major 3D apps such as 3ds Max, Maya, CINEMA 4D, Softimage, Blender, and others. Simply put, no real restrictions to the type of file formats that it supports. After the release of Unity 4.3 it also acquired native 2D capabilities. With sprites and 2D physics, the game engine has it all in stock for the 2D game development.
However, even so Unity supports integration of just about any 3D app, it can hardly brag about vast editing capabilities inside its editor. Unity has no real modeling features outside of a few basic shapes, and so it will need to be created in a third party 3D application. On the possitive side, it does have a large asset library with a wide variety of assets to be downloaded or purchased from the asset author.
Here aresome licensing fees for Unity. The first one is Pro version of Unity, which costs $1,500 or $75/month per platform. Team License is available as well. Personal Edition is free, including many of the same features as the Pro Edition, such as Profiler, Physically-based shading, Reflection Probes and others. (Detailed pricing is available on the Unity website.) For small game studios, free Unity 5 Personal Edition will most of the times be all they need.
Unity is usually associated with mobile games. With the release of Unity 5, however, and its new render system there has been a huge leap in the graphical capabilities of the engine. Physically based shading, real-time global illumination and HDR Reflection Probes are among many other improvements.
Thinking of a cool game to set the gamer community on fire - think Unity. We, game dev studio stfalcon.com, highly recommend Unity for the above features and capabilities. Reach me out for any game dev projects you'd like to carry out now or in the foreseeable future.
Keep it positive and thank you for reading this Unity review. (The article was inspired by other reviews found online.)
Yours,
Jaro ([email protected])