Top 10 Reasons to Choose Unity 3d for App and Game Development

In the article written by Brandon of Studio Pepwuper, their main software is Unity 3D and compiled ten reasons why to choose Unity 3D for game or app development. On “It’s Free to Get Started with Unity”, Unity 3D comes with a free version and Pro version, the free version is a feature-complete and there are advantages on using the Pro version which allow some options. Unity allows gaming wannabes to create a full game without the obstacle of the price.

On “It’s Multi-Platform”, there are many platforms where your game can be published. Though porting a game into a different platform that utilized a different set of technology used will involve a massive amount of effort and often times outsourced to another company and took up months of development time. With Unity, porting to a new platform is a lot simpler but you may want to take each platform’s unique features into consideration when building, but Unity makes it a lot easier to port.

On “The Thrive – and Supportive - Community”, with over a large community having over 2 million and more user it’s great to have multiple online resources to share the love and frustration of the program. Whenever you are stuck on developing, you can chat with anyone in the community or even find an artist or fellow developer willing to collaborate with your next big idea. Aside from all of that, Unity has an annual conference that let you can see your fellow developer in person either in Europe or North American during summer. On “The Asset Store”, when you need something without making it from scratch the asset store is a good place to start. It is also a good place to start a little extra revenue if you’re an artist, musician, or modeler.

On “Scripting Languages”, Unity 3D offers ways to script your game using JavaScript or C#, both are the most popular languages and are very easy to use. On “The Ability to Create 2D Games”, Unity is great for 3D games but there is, of course, 2D game development. The latest version of Unity offers built-in 2D game engine that allows users to create 2D games, in which handles sprite animation, 2D physics, animation dope sheet and much more. On “Ability to Create Multiplayer Games”, the biggest multiplayer games on both mobile and web are built using Unity and using its multiplayer feature.

Making a multiplayer can be a massive undertaking, but with the set of tools provided by Unity and with help from the community a multiplayer game is not impossible. On “Online Tutorials/ Classes Make it Easy to Learn”, one of the key features of Unity is being easy to use but also offers a lot of online course and tutorials for basic to advance usage of Unity. The best thing is that you learn at a very low cost and the comfort of your own home. On “Unite- the Unity Conference”, annually Unity holds a conference where they talked about the world of Unity and its features. Now with a rise of Unity users, Unite (conference) happens multiple time a year all around the globe and it’s a good opportunity to meet people and fellow developers to learn more about Unity and its technology. And lastly, on “The Ease of Use”.

Getting started on Unity is very easy, you can see what you've been working on in real-time using the editor without having to wait for the game to build and compile. From the interface down to the workflow, you can see the brilliant execution of Unity’s idea of “democratizing game development”. This is what we think is the best game development software around today.