What are the pro/cons of Unity3D as a choice to make games?

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Published on 2011-02-04T16:43:07Z Indexed on 2012/10/07 3:54 UTC
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We are doing our school project with Unity3d, since they were using Shiva the previous year (which seems horrible to me), and I wanted to know your point of view for this tool.

Pros:

  • multi platform, I even heard Google is going to implement it in Chrome
  • everything you need is here
  • scripting languages makes it a good choice for people who are not programming gurus

Cons:

  • multiplayer ?
  • proprietary, you are totally dependent of unity and its limit and can't extend it
  • it's less "making a game from scratch"
  • C++ would have been a cool thing

I really think this kind of tool is interesting, but is it worth it to use at school for a project that involves more than 3 programming persons ? What do we really learn in term of programming from using this kind of tool (I'm ok with python and js, but I hate C#) ? We could have use Ogre instead, even if we were learning direct x starting january...

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