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Let the argument (or lack of) commence!

cringe

Lack of, I suspect.

iansjack wrote:Lack of, I suspect.

Well, the argument will certainly be biased to one side. <Obvious Sarcasm>But I wonder which?</Obvious Sarcasm>

Yes

Having worked on both, I like both.

Game engines can be complex. Physics, paging large landscapes, all kind of rendering effects, AI, procedural generation, message passing, inventing data structures for compressing and streaming your level from disk, cross platform compatibility.

Over the past few years, Unity has soared in popularity. For me personally, the best thing about Unity is the number of platforms it supports (one source base - Windows, OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone. WebGL is coming soon.) The Asset Store is also pretty cool, because as a programmer, I'm not so great at art and I'm able to rapidly prototype things if I can just purchase a premade asset and insert it.

MessiahAndrw wrote:The Asset Store is also pretty cool, because as a programmer, I'm not so great at art and I'm able to rapidly prototype things if I can just purchase a premade asset and insert it.

Most things on the Asset Store are free which is great.

For me, Operating system development is hard but game development is hardest. What about GameDev on your own operating system?

muazzam wrote:What about GameDev on your own operating system?

One day. One day.

SapphireBeauty wrote: One day. One day.

I don't understand your post.

muazzam wrote:

SapphireBeauty wrote: One day. One day.

I don't understand your post.

Maybe one day he'll be able to write a game for his own operating system.