(2) an application where the “visible pieces” of a game can be put together (the IDE) with a graphical preview and using a controlled “play it” function, and (1) a game engine, that allows game created to run (hence to be played) in different environments, IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment: Unity actually is the union of It is used to develop video games for web plugins, desktop platforms, consoles and mobile devices. Unity is a cross-platform game engine with a built-in IDE developed by Unity Technologies.
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Once you know why it works, you see that it is such a brilliant solution that you will hardly stop to explain anyone why it works: you will be now dedicating your time to creating games! But in my overwhelming generosity (you may call me from now on “Your Majesty”), I will stop for a little and give you the key to this realm, full of treasures once inside. And to answer to the question “Why is Unity so popular in videogame development?” it took me learning beyond the basics of Unity development. It took me a long time to understand enough of videogames in order to “get” Unity, and begin using it. So I ignored it, as at the time the core of my interest was the game design dimension and not the development details, left to poorly paid slaves when needed (by which I mean myself, of course). I (wrongly) classified it as a tool for those in realistic 3D games (a style many in Indie games today don’t particularly love – “We’re all effin’ tired of 3D”) telling myself “it must be a kind of Maya for games”. When I started studying the peculiar world of videogame development, I soon met the confusingly named Unit圓D as the reference tool used by many practitioners of the black art of game creation.