Unity3D is Awesome, No Arguments.

I have been using Unity3D for a little over a year now, and I have fallen in love with it. It is sad to admit, I know, but I now hold stronger feelings for a game engine than I have for anything else in existence that is composed entirely of 0's and 1's if we really wanted to strip it to such a bare state of existence.

For any of you that are completely lost and have no idea what I am on about, Unity3D is a game engine, extremely popular among indie developers because it is A) powerful and B) free (for windows, web and Mac platforms anyway).

It is only now that I stop and think about it, that I realise why I love this particular engine so much. So, without further adue, I present "Simon's 3 reasons to make Unity3D your best friend"...or something to that effect, with a little more wit.

Reason One: Anybody can get started in Unity

Unlike some game engines, Unity3D realises that the big bad world of game development can be big and scary for newcomers. With this in mind, the creators have created a blissfully easy interface to use, as well as a number of tools to help any newcomers learn and work with their engine. It supports languages most known to emerging programmers and a toolset that will make any n00b feel like a pro.

Reason Two: Community and Resources

There is absolutely no shortage of community to help you solve those tricky coding issues or provide invaluable tutorials for a range of different games. The community of mainly indie developers built around Unity3D is rather astonishing in a sense that you always have somewhere to turn if you are stuck. Even if it means having an entirely new block of code worked through, line by line, with a complete stranger on the forums, it will be done. I cannot think of any other piece of software that can teach and aid the user as much as Unity3D and it's community...you feel so damn loved!

Reason Three: Platforms, Platforms, Platforms...

Because Unity3D have been really good at not annoying the wrong people (cough Apple...), licenses are available for pretty much any platform you can think of. From Android to Xbox, if you want a license, you can buy it. The porting ability of the engine is quite astounding and affordable out of any engine available. This gives a remarkable opportunity to small studios to build awesome games on a reasonable budget...or even poor uni students.

In summary, Unity3D is your friend. It wont give you up, let you down, run around or desert you. At times it can make you cry (but the community fixes you up quick smart), but the debugger wont tells you lies. This means you have absolutely every reason to say hello to Unity3D (not goodbye), after all, it is free.