Why Unity3D?
By profession, I am an Android App developer and I was always trying to learn something new. I thought of learning Game development. I started to search for language/IDE to develop game, I found out Unity was much hyped for game development. I thought to give it a try and below are my findings on Unity3D game development experience. I believe that my experience and analysis would help new fellows to directly dive into one platform for enhancing their career as game developer. So, let’s get going.
Some Technical Game Terms that need to be understood for starting game development are highlighted below
a) Game Engine: Game Engine is core engine for creating any game which consists all source code to function our game properly. The game uses various class methods from game engine to perform game play such as animations, sound playing, graphical assets loading, animating, render engine for 2D and 3D graphics etc. All these functions are handled and managed by game engine.
b) Assets:Assets can be termed as collection of graphical images, scripts and sounds to make game interactive. The graphical assets type will vary depending upon nature of game you are developing i.e developing 2D game, flat 2D graphical assets are needed whereas 3D game development will need 3D model assets. The scripts allows you to add behavior to your game objects.
Why Unity 3D?
Free Tutorial: Unity hosts a lot of free tutorial teaching you many games. You can download source codes given by Unity to start game development easily. There are many tutorials regarding 2D and 3D games.
Powerful: Unity3D is powerful game engine suit in which you can create basic 2D games to advanced ‘AAA’ 3D games. The IDE features and its scripting feature has made this game engine very powerful which helps to game programmer to extend their game functionality in no time. You can learn by creating small 2D game first and then move gradually to advance 3D game development.
Easy to use IDE: It is easy to use the Game Editor as development is accompanied by visual editor i.e. drag and drop which helps you to understand game logic easily. Scripting is much lesser for simple games which is also very easy and fun to use than other game engines.
Multiplatform: Games creating in Unity3D can be deployed into multiple platforms simply by downloading and installing support for these platform. Just a few click will make you able to deploy your game created in unity3D to multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Xbox, PC, Web Player etc.
Asset Store: As said in point described above you need Assets to develop game but what if you are a single developer. Here comes the Assets Store to rescue you. You can easily buy cool graphical and sound assets as per your requirement i.e free or paid. You can add free assets directly into your game to make your game living. These assets are being designed by professional designer so you’ll have no problem with these assets.
Live Sessions: Unity3D occasionally holds a lot of live learning sessions all around the world. This gives game developers an opportunity to go into the group to learn and share more from not only their peers but also from senior game developers and designers.
These are my thoughts regarding the Unity for game development. If you have any other view do share with me. Sharing is Caring.
Happy Gaming.