Why choose Unity?

There are a great many game authoring tools, engines, and frameworks that you may have explored or read about before investigating Unity 3D. What makes Unity an attractive option? Here are a few selling points:

  • Large community: You want to avoid going with a tool that only you and some middle-schooler in Siberia know how to operate. Unity has a very large user base, which makes it much quicker and easier to find answers to your questions, and to find online videos, tutorials and books like this one that explain new concepts. A large community also implies that development on the software will continue. Nothing's worse than training on a tool that is later abandoned.
  • Social proof: The fact that large companies have bought into or ...

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