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Slant community chat on Discourse| 5 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Languages | Dev platforms | Desktop targets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 UDK· · · | 2 | 1 | C++; C#; UnrealScript; Cg | Windows | Windows; OSX |
| #2 Unity· · · | 4 | 2 | C#; UnityScript; Boo | Windows; OSX; eucalyptus | Windows; OSX; Linux; |
| #3 Duality· · · | 3 | 4 | C# | Windows | Windows |
| #4 Wave· · · | 2 | 0 | C#; VB; F# | Windows; OSX; Linux | Windows; OSX; Linux |
| #5 Flat Red Ball· · · | 1 | 0 | c# | – | – |
Pro Large toolset
UDK has an extremely large toolset that allows creating almost anything without having to use a 3rd party tool or plugin.
Pro Good lighting support
UDK has great lighting support.
Con DevKit only runs on Windows
Even though UDK can deploy games to run on multiple platforms, including Mac, it does not feature support for development on Mac.
Pro As of Unity 5 all engine features are free for everyone
As long as the company makes $100k or less, Unity's free version can be used to release games without purchasing the pro version.
Pro Great editor
The editor GUI is very powerful and intuitive. It allows pausing gameplay and manipulating the scene at any time as well as progress gameplay frame by frame. It also has powerful asset management and attribute inspection. This allows it to be more powerful than other, simpler drag-and-drop engines
Con 2D performance could be better
Performance can have real issues with 2D games. Since Unity is actually a 3D game engine, it drags a lot of overhead with because of this. For example, for mobile , one could never achieve the performance of more specialized 2D engines with Unity.
Con Most knowledge acquired by using Unity is applicable only to Unity
Unity3D uses very unique approach for doing things, most of knowledge acquired while using it, would completely non transferable to other engines.
Pro Very extensible
Because both Core and Editor are completely plugin-based, Duality not only incorporates a clean and modular design, but is also very extensible - even if it isn't Open Source. In fact, most of the standard editing capabilities come in form of Editor plugins.
Pro Open source
The full source code is available on GitHub, where the framework is actively developed. All of the editor, core and plugin code is written in C#.
Con Requires windows for development
Duality only supports Windows for a development environment.
Pro Oculus Rift support
The Wave Engine team provides an official, open-source Oculus Rift extension via GitHub.
Pro Integrates with popular IDEs
Wave integrates with Visual Studio on Windows, Xamarin Studio on Windows and Mac, and Monodevelop on Linux.
Con Cannot compile natively for Android and iOS devices
For iOS and Android Building, you need to use Xamarin for compiling.
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