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Elm vs Phaser vs Godot

 vs Construct 2 vs MelonJS vs Unity vs Unreal Engine 4 vs Stencyl vs ImpactJS vs Pixi.js vs Construct 3 vs Pixelbox.js vs kiwijs vs Isogenic

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Windows Linux Mac Web

Current stable version

0.19.1

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23.2 kB

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Web

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Free

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Javascript, Typescript, ES6 Ecmascript

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GDScript, C#, C++

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JavaScript (engine)

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Proprietary

Desktop targets

Windows XP+, UWP, Mac OS X 10.6+, Linux

Mobile targets

Android 4.0+, iOS 8.0+

3D

Some

Console targets

Xbox One, Wii U

2D

Yes

Graphics API

WebGL, Canvas 2D

Supported languages

Visual programming, JavaScript

Distributed targets

HTML5

Logic model

Pre-built behaviors

Behavior trigger

Event list (per-object)

2D physics

Box2D

Notable games

The Next Penelope, Cosmochoria, Angvik, Dreaming Sarah, Airscape The Fall of Gravity, Artillerists, Lunar Mission, …

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Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

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C++, Blueprints (Visual Scripting)

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Desktop targets

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SteamOs, HTML5

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iOS, Android

3D

Yes

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PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

2D

Yes

Graphics API

DirectX Versions: 10, 11, 12(Experimental), Vulkan SM5, OpenGL

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Notable games

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SteamVR/HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, OSVR, , Google VR/Daydream, Samsung Gear VR

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DirectX 10, DirectX 11, Vulkan (SM5), OpenGL

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Java (editor), Haxe (engine)

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Proprietary (editor), MIT (engine)

Desktop targets

Windows 7+, Macintosh 10.14+, Linux

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Android 4.0+, iOS 9+

3D

No

Console targets

none

2D

Yes

Graphics API

OpenGL, OpenGL ES, WebGL

Supported languages

Visual programming, Haxe

Distributed targets

HTML5

Logic model

Snap-together script blocks

Behavior trigger

Behavior-specific

2D physics

Box2D

Notable games

Hollow Knight (prototype), Legends of IdleOn, Super/Tiny Dangerous Dungeons, Talk to Strangers, House, NEXT JUMP, Flapping Online...

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Pros + Cons

Pro
 Great and simple way to learn Purely Functional Programming 

You can try to apply some functional programming ideas in other languages that have an imperative basis, but you haven't seen the real power unless you tried it in the environment of purely functional programming. Elm is a simple language with great learning resources and easy graphical output, which makes it easy to explore the power of functional programming. Plus programming in Elm is very readable.
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 Functional

Features like immutability and type inference help you write code that is short, fast, and maintainable.
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 Good documentation 

Elm is gaining popularity, somewhat faster than many of the other solutions here. This translates to more code examples, more documentation, and more libraries.
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 Isn't a game engine

Is a language/framework for reactive dom programming and can be use to make cleaner code game but is not made ground up for this.
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 Not quite Haskell semantics

Luckily you do not have to learn Haskell to be able to do any Elm. It is meant to be a language that compiles to Javascript, so for Javascript programmers (Front end) not for CS students who want to learn as many different algorithms as possible.
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 Easy to code review

The lack of side-effects and simple, consistent language semantics make it easy to quickly review incoming changes.
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 Designed around high-level front-end development 

As Elm was designed as a front-end langauge, it has out of the box support for things like DOM-element creation, letting programmers focus on their application logic, rather than implementation details specific to the web.
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 No run-time exceptions

Lack of run-time exceptions makes it easy to produce large swathes of reliable front-end code without drowning in tests.
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 Super easy refactoring with very helpful compiler errors

In no other language you can refactor so easy without any worries, since the compiler will guide you through. It is like TDD but than compiler-error driven.
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 Inferred static typing

ML static typing is great because it's always there, you just choose how explicit you want to be and how much you want the compiler to do.
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 Features get removed without warning

Often features that are deemed to be misused by the community like infix operators get removed without much of a warning.
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 Not database-friendly

It is lots of work to make a server or database your "one source of truth", as Elm makes you write endless JSON parse boilerplate to talk to the server.
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 Higher confidence in code correctness and quality

Pure functions, immutable data structures, amazing compiler, clean and homologous syntax used for HTML, logic, and optionally to replace CSS, elimination of entire classes of bugs so you don't even need most unit tests. These factors lead to better code, better programs, higher confidence, and ultimately, more satisfaction.
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 Interactive programming and Hot swapping

Support for hot swapping and interactive programming is included.
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 Growing community

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 Missing syntactic sugar

Easy to learn, most functions have only one way, not 5 alternatives where you must study where to best use what.
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 Good tooling

All major editors have great support. With Atom for example, Elm plugins are available for linting, formatting, make/compiler support and Elmjutsu will simply overflow you with super useful functions, like navigate to referenced definition and show expression type.
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 Batteries included

The Elm Architecture means you don't need to spend valuable time and effort choosing the right frameworks, state management libraries, or build tooling. It's all built in.
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 Static module system

Elm uses easy to use modules. Use: import List import List as L import List exposing (..) import List exposing ( map, foldl ) import Maybe exposing ( Maybe ) import Maybe exposing ( Maybe(..) ) import Maybe exposing ( Maybe(Just) ) Creation: module MyModule exposing (foo, bar)
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 No syntactic sugar

Often you need to write longer and less readable code because there are no alternatives that are more concise.
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 No Genericness in the future

Currently there is no code genericness like typeclasses possible, it has been officially stated that this will never change.
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 Functional programming itself has quite a steep learning curve

Functional programming can be quite difficult to get your head around. It takes time to unlearn object orientational habits.
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 Good for beginners not good for experts

Development in elm is quite nice until you need some more advanced features. These however are actively discontinued and removed because elm wants to establish a "single way of doing things" philosophy.
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 Updates break existing code often

The last few updates of elm broke existing code in major ways.
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 Adds an additional layer of abstraction

Some users claim that Elm adds an additional layer of abstraction, meaning that it is one more hurdle between the brain and the product.
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 Poor Windows support

Few if any of Elm's core contributors are Windows users and breaking bugs are sometimes left for weeks or months.
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 Community harsh if criticised

If one even dares to start a discussion about a feature on elms slack, discord, subreddit or github one will be aggressively shut down often argueing that one should use purescript instead.
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 Code repetition

Because of the lack of genericness Elm needs a lot of code to be repeated. There are 130+ implementations of map in elms core libraries.
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 Harder to get buy-in from devs and mgmt

It's a total divergence from what most people are used to in the JS ecosystem. The change in syntax can be scary, the change in approaching problems can be scary. The fact that it's not backed by FANG can be scary. The fact that it's not v1.0 can be scary. The governance model and the deliberately slow release cadence can be scary. There are a couple harsh medium articles, hackernews/reddit posts out there made by people with an ax to grind that can be scary if you don't have a better picture of the Elm community, the tradeoffs that have been made, or the benefits to be had over other options. None of these are good reasons to write off further investigation of a great tech, but it happens.
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 Limited js interop

Only one way ports are available as a crude js FFI. This means you can only call functions both directions but will not get a result.
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 Lack of typeclasses

Elm doesn't have typeclasses which means some code needs to be duplicated. A fix in a function that needs typeclasses means all of the duplicates need to be fixed too.
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Pro
 Can be compiled

Elm compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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 Good way to get introduced to Functional Reactive Programming 

You may have already seen reactive programming in other languages, but functional reactive programming requires a purely function programming language like Elm. If you're doing any work on Graphical User Interfaces, you'll be interested in the patterns you can find in a language like Elm, which has built-in support for FRP.
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 Compiled

Elm compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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 Beginner-friendly

Phaser keeps things simple and as such is easy to use by beginners.
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 1000s of examples

Thousands of example are on the Phaser website, which show everything you could want to do with Phaser.
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 Supports WebGL with canvas fallback

If WebGL is unavailable, Phaser automatically switches to HTML5 canvas.
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 Missing accessibility features

While not a big issue, it may be a dealbreaker for some.
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 Poor code structure

There's little in terms of cohesiveness in classes, methods or patterns.
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 Targets mobile browsers

Built specifically for mobile web browsers.
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 Integrated animation editor

Every property can be animated.
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 Creating editor tools is a breeze

Godot Engine is itself a Godot game. By adding the "tool" keyword to the top of a script, you can design extensions for the editor itself INSIDE the editor. Integrating these editor scripts into a bundled plugin for sharing is extremely easy to do.
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 Friendly towards Version Control Systems

The engine is build not only to support version control but to really use it. Scene files for example which usually get compiled into some sort of unreadable data stay in a text format - that way you can actually see your changes in a version control system like Git.
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 Built-in physics

Add physics to 2D and 3D scenes, through rigid and static bodies, characters, raycasts, vehicles and more.
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 Doesn't need to be installed into the system

Godot is very portable, you can download the file from a website then put it on a USB and run it on your other computer without any troublesome errors.
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 Internationalization of the editor

You can change the language shown in menus. Godot translations can be found here.
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 The list of supported languages is growing

Officially, Godot supported languages for now will be GDScript, C#(Mono), VisualScript and C++.
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 Drag & drop interface

Many parts of the editor allow you to drag & drop, which makes working with assets and scene trees a joy.
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 User friendly UI for all your team

Non-programmers (musicians, artists, etc) can join the development easily.
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 Editor and runtime are fully cross-platform

You can run Godot on all 3 major operating systems (Windows/Mac/Linux) and build your game to all available platforms from each without any platform-specific work needed. All platforms including Linux are supported first class.
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 Free and open source

Godot is licensed under MIT license. Anyone can grab the source from here, and compile the engine themselves.
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 Under constant development

This engine barely released one year ago has more than 1000 forks on github and about 100 developers. Not only that just a bit of browsing trough issues you will quickly find out the dev community loves new esp free technology and does not shy away from completely rewriting parts of the engine. The audio engine is being completely rewritten to use threads and so forth.
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 Can be deployed to multiple platforms

Deploy games to desktops (Windows/OS X/Linux), smartphones (iOS/Android/BlackBerry), and the web (HTML5 via Emscripten).
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 Unified game editor interface

All the game development work is done inside one program: the engine editor. The scripting is done in the same program. No need for Eclipse or other front-end editors.
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 Fully dedicated 2D engine, no hacks

Godot has a mature 2D engine with many features used by modern 2D games.
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 Lightweight

The executable is portable and less than 40 MB in size.
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 Primarily supports own proprietary language (GD Script)

While it's very accessible, and if you know Python you'll pick it up fast, having to learn a new language to fully make use of the platform can be a bit discouraging. And for those learning to code as well as learning Godot for the first time, many would rather learn a language they can 'take with them' when they explore other platforms in the future.
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Pro
 Powerful drag & drop editor

Using Construct 2 requires very little programming knowledge as it's all drag'n'drop, intuitive, visual and event-driven instead of code-only.
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 Built in behaviors make development workflows very efficient 

Behaviors add pre-packaged functionality to object types.
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 Designed for everybody 

Construct 2 is a tool for not just programmers, but artists as well. You can create a game with only visual coding, which is easy to learn and doesn't require any prevoius programming knowledge. You can focus on making your game better instead of just coding. It has some limitations of course, but it's definetly worth it.
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Con
 Light coding is needed for complex games.

Yes, there are some coding aspects of the product; however, it is the easiest one out there to learn. Plus, it will teach you how to code and program for other game engines.
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 Built-in tilemap object

The tilemap object allows tile-based games to be designed more easily. The object's tilemap can also be edited in the layout view using the tilemap bar.
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 Built-in animation/image editor 

Basic sprites and tiles of 2D games can be made with engine's built-in tools.
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 In-depth event system 

Construct 2's event system allows for deep, detailed control over all aspects of your game. You aren't limited to just a few options. Rather, Scirra has thought of nearly everything in advance with access to any desired parameter of any object all paired with simple and intuitive ways to interact with them. Your events can be organized with event sheets (that can be included in other sheets), event groups, sub-events, loops, and functions that make the coding portion of your game as efficient as possible. You don't need any programming knowledge, but if you do have some, you'll feel right at home with the freedom C2 offers.
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 Supportive devs 

The developers are always available to help.
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 Allow server-less multiplayer game creation 

Construct 2 uses WebRTC technology to support it's multiplayer functionality. The nature of the technology allows peer-to-peer connection which does not require game developer to create server side architecture to allow communication between games.
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 Supports camera, microphone, speech recognition and synthesis

Can use cameras in PCs and on mobiles. You can use the synthesis that can recognize your speech or you can write something and it can talk for you.
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 Interface similar to that of MS office

This engine provides an intuitive workflow for people that are used to the Windows environment.
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 Runs great on mobile

Performs well on most devices and browsers.
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 One off cost

It's a one off cost for Construct 2 and all updates to the Construct 2 editor are free for life.
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 Available on Steam

You can also download Construct 2 on Steam.
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 Free (feature limited) version available

A free version of Construct 2 is available. It's not time restricted in any way, but is feature limited.
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 Quick to pick up

Construct 2 is fast to pick up, get into, and belt out some pretty impressive games in a relatively small amount of time. Seems to be built for people who don't have a lot of programming skills, but want to make great games.
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 Export control for all major platforms

All platform exporters are part of the subscription. There are no additional fees and new exporters are added quickly and maintained well. Currently, 15 platforms are supported, including HMTL 5, iOS, Android, Windows, Chrome Store, PhoneGap and Scirra.
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 Easy to create particles and animations 

With spriter file implementation and internal animation editor Construct 2 provides an easy way of creating particles and animations.
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 Built-in physics system 

Thanks to the great power of Erin Catto's Box2D, Construct 2 is able to make physics games which are similar to Cut the Rope and Angry Birds.
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 Active plugin ecosystem

Construct 2 has an active plugin ecosystem providing behaviors and features that smooth the workflow for certain game types.
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 Affordable

Construct 2 is available in 4 variants. There's a free version with limited functionality that prohibits from making money from C2 creations and a full version that requires either a personal, business or educational license. The personal license is aimed at indie developers that make less than $5000 from games made with Construct 2 and non-profit organisations and costs $129.99. The business license is required once $5000 or more is already made and costs $429.99. These licenses are one-time buys that include all future upgrades of the software. An educational license is also available for $29.99/month that allows having Construct 2 on all on-site computers.
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 Supportive community

Construct 2 has a supportive community. Their forums have tens of thousands of topics with ten times more posts.
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 Constant updates

Developers provide regular updates (usually bi-weekly) with new features added with each iteration.
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 Editor is Windows only 

Although Construct 2 is able to export projects to Windows, OS X and Linux, the program itself currently only runs on Windows.
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 Good support

Devs help resolve issues in a timely manner and are friendly throughout the process.
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 Tiled support

Natively integrates Tiled map editor. Tiled is a free, open-source map editor that supports orthogonal, isometric and staggered maps.
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 Good docs

The documentation is intuitively structured and comprehensive allowing you to quickly find information about the engine.
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 Has tutorials to help you get started

To understand basics of MelonJS, the developers maintain 2 tutorials that are available on the site.
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 API breaks all the time

API breaks are common between version changes.
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 Javascript (and webGL support in latest version)

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 Very optimized

Unity runs very smoothly even on systems that are considered "weak" by today's standards.
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 Great community

Great Community support through the Forums and Unity Answers.
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 Very popular

Unity is a proven game engine. It is used by a wide range of developers - from small indies to triple-A companies such as Microsoft, Paradox, Square Enix and Sega.
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 Slow script updates

C# compiles slowly, from few sec to hours for each change. And editor is unusable while scripts are compiling.
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 Closed source

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 Hard to debug web build

Builded project has a lot of internal undocumented code, so it's hard to understand what's inside. And unlike JS, WASM is hard to edit. In case of some errors, the output of Unity is nearly useless, even with debug symbols.
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 Slow, memory consuming builds

Building of Unity project reqiures a lot of RAM if there is big assets, extensions.
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 Can create custom forms and tools

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 Easy learning curve

The way the editor is structured, by setting scripts on objects, and the use of a high-level language, C#, makes it easy to learn.
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 Has a great animation system

Unity provides a great state machine animation system called Mechanim allowing to separate animation from the model and assign the same animoations to different models.
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 Works with 3rd party IDEs

You can use any C# IDE for it, but the ones tested which have Unity integration are: Microsoft Visual Studio MonoDevelop Visual Studio Code (much faster than VS, but a bit harder to set up for Unity development) JetBrains Rider (very fast, has lots of functionality and best Unity integration, but it is not free)
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 Lots of assets can be found in the Asset Store

For those developers who can't afford an artist, or aren't skilled enough to create their own art, Unity features an Asset Store full of a wide variety of free and paid assets that can be easily added to a game. The Asset Store has more than just music and art. It also has code and modules that can be added to games including unique lighting or GUI systems. It also has powerful asset management and attribute inspection.
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 Lots of resources to learn from

Unity3D provides an exhaustive documentation where everything is given a full description supplied by a number of examples as well as video and text tutorials and live training sessions to understand the ins and outs of the engine. In addition there's an ever-growing community that can offer advice to help resolve any situations that may arise. Along with the official Unity resources, there are many high quality (and often free) third party tutorials available.
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 Powerful standard shaders

The built in standard shader in Unity 5 is incredibly optimized and supports PBS/PBR.
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 Well structured

Overall, a coherent engine with a rational approach. People who complain a lot about being forced to hack around it usually do not read the docs, like the one that describes orders of execution, or specific functions hooks and such. Some like to say it lacks raw power where people who are used to standard optimizations have no problem. For example It is not uncommon to encounter users who complain about low FPS but forgot to activate occlusion, flag static elements, activate animations culling, and so on. As for complaints about C#, people who are transitioning from C++ were already bad at C++ before being bad at C#. They often come from the PC world where the sheer power of today's machines is very forgiving compared to the platforms we had to develop for in the 80s~90s. One of their errors is for example to never read this doc.
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 OUYA support

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 Flexibility is provided by a strong component programming model

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 Versatile

Not tailored for specific types of games (like Unreal...), so it won't get in your way if you want to make something unique.
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 Over 20 platforms

Unity offers over 20 platforms for publishing including mobile, console, web, VR, and more.
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 Can be used for free

As long as the development company makes $100k or less, it can use the free version of Unity to release games.
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 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.
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 Allows for rapid prototyping

Unity's modular system and usability allows for quickly developing a prototype of an idea. It has features like drag & drop editing, shaders, animation and other systems already in place to allow diving right into developing a game.
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 Closed source

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 High speed via WebAssembly + WebGL2

Unreal Engine compiles its game logic into binary files using emscripten, thus providing high speed in browser comparable to native games. WebGL2 also provides cool shaders, real-time reflections, distortions and so on.
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 Extremely long build times

Making a full rebuild, including engine can take a good 30 minutes. If you plan to use Unreal professionally, you better get some licenses for Incredibuild as well.
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 Very high build size

A blank project will build in to a minimum of 200 MB.
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 No sweet JavaScript

Unreal Engine was not primarily designed for web game creation, and therefore compiles c++ code and blueprints to web binaries. As a result, there is no built-in JavaScript support, which may seem weird in perspective of web gamedev.
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 Realistic graphics

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 Hard engine for beginners

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 Steep learning curve

Especially when compared to its primary competitor, Unity.
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 Visual Scripting

Unreal Engine's visual language aka blueprints allows programmers to write games almost without limits, meaning that everything you would do in c++ is possible in blueprints too. Even if you find missing functions in blueprints, you can extend this language via plugins. Blueprints are beginner-friendly and suitable even for non-programmers.
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 (Almost) Free and open source

You don't need to pay anything unless your project earns $3 000 or more. Starting from that point, you will have to pay 5% royalty to Epic Games. The source code is licensed under UnrealEngine's EULA
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 Sophisticated tools

UE4 has a wide variety of time-proven tools, like UI designer, 3D level editor with landscape painting, automatic LOD generation, sound composer, and so on.
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 Cross-platform

Unreal Engine runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and allows you not only make HTML5 games, but also native ones for PCs and mobile platforms.
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 Publish for many platforms

Using Stencyl, you can publish content to iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and Linux. You can also publish as Flash or soon to HTML5 (still in development).
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 Generates Haxe source code

Nodes are translated directly to Haxe files in your project. This is great for learning to code, and also for advanced users who can further optimize the scripts if necessary.
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 Block-based visual scripting resembles real code

Visual scripting in Stencyl is based on the MIT Scratch project, which was designed to teach programming. Script elements fit together like puzzle pieces, ensuring that data and function types cannot be mismatched.
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 Free for Flash publication

Starter Stencyl is identical to paid-plan versions except that it only allows publication to Flash, with a mandatory Stencyl splash screen. Commercial development is allowed with Starter Stencyl.
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 Easy to use

The drag and drop logic building is super easy to understand. You don't even need to learn any code for most tasks, although for some unique applications code knowledge may be required.
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 Cross platform

You can use Stencyl on Windows, Mac, as well as Linux.
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 Annual subscription model

Publication to desktop targets requires an active Indie Stencyl subscription, priced at $99/yr. Mobile targets require Studio Stencyl at $199/yr.
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 A lot of ways to make games

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 Abandoned

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 Extendable  

Many plugins are available, including one called Impact++ which adds features like pathfinding and dynamic lighting.
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 Level editor 

Built-in map editor with support for tiling, collision layers, and actors.
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 Extensive documentation available to support development

ImpactJS has an active user community that busily produces tremendous resources including videos, books, tutorials, walkthroughs and more. There are also comprehensive class documentation available.
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 Truly cross-platform allowing developers to build for anything 

Extending the reach of a game developed with ImpactJS is easy due to the cross-platform nature the framework. There are Considerations around performance, resolution and audio, however all can be appropriately addressed when in development. Works in the browser via Canvas, even on mobile. Easily translatable into a packaged app.
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 Excellent collision detection system

Impact provides 2 types of collision detection; static and dynamic collisions. Both of which are easily integrated into game development.
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 Cost of $99

While most HTML5 frameworks are offered as free open source projects, ImpactJS has a one time cost and no free option.
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 Supports WebGL w/ canvas fallback

Pixi is a WebGL renderer, but can fall back to canvas if WebGL is not supported or turned off.
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 Will be familiar to ActionScript developers

Pixi.js uses a code structure that's very similar to ActionScript.
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 Not a complete solution

Pixi only provides the renderer.
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 Fast and small

Construct 3 loads really fast.
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 Timeline

It has a timeline feature which allows you to make amazing animations.
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 Works on Chromebooks

Construct 3 works on a Chromebook without any issues.
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 No installation required

As it runs in the browser you can load it on any computer and show your friends your work really quickly.
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 Subscription based

Construct 2 wasn't a subscription model.
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 Runs in the browser

If I don't have my Chromebook, Construct 3 will run in the browser.
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