What is Unity and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to Unity
- Unreal Engine
It is a game engine that helps you make games. It is made up of several components that work together to drive the game. Its massive system of tools and editors allows you to organize your assets and manipulate them to create the gameplay for your game. ...
- MonoGame
It is a free C# framework used by game developers to make games for multiple platforms and other systems. It is also used to make Windows and Windows Phone games run on other systems. ...
- Godot
It is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine. It is developed by hundreds of contributors from all around the world. ...
- Blender
It is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. ...
- three.js
It is a cross-browser JavaScript library and Application Programming Interface used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser. ...
- Ninject
It is a lightning-fast, ultra-lightweight dependency injector for .NET applications. It helps you split your application into a collection of loosely-coupled, highly-cohesive pieces, and then glue them back together in a flexible manner. By using it to support your software's architecture, your code will become easier to write, reuse, test, and modify. ...
- Phaser
It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools. ...
- pygame
It is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language. ...
Unity alternatives & related posts
- C++9
- Blueprints6
- PBR5
- Suitable for any projects4
- Source Available4
- Convenient and modern UI3
- Most Popular Game engine1
- Heavy6
- A lot of "heaviness" myths around1
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- Cross-platform1
- Can't working in vs mac 20191
- No GUI1
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- Open source8
- Easy to port5
- Supports both C++, C# and GDScript3
- Cross-Platform3
- Simple3
- Avaible on Steam For Free3
- GDScript is Based On Python2
- Harder to learn1
- Performance in 3D1
- Need opengl 2.1 / 3.31
- Somewhat poor 3D performance and lacks automatic LODs1
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- Free for Commercial and Personal Use8
- Layers4
- Usable For Graphic Design4
- Dozens of free addons, courses and an active community3
- Long Render Time (every 3d program ever)2
- Confusing UI and shortcut navigation for newcomers1
- Blender dropped the game engine, see UPBGE1
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We already have an existing 3d interactive application for windows, mac, and iOS devices and have planned to move that app to the web for high availability to different types of users. I have been searching for different options for it. Our existing application is made in Unity so we prefer to work on unity webgl but it also has its drawbacks. Other than that we are also thinking to change the tech stack to three.js or BabylonJS due to their high compatibility with the web ecosystem. I want to know which engine/library/framework we should use for the development of our 3d web application. Also with unity webgl, we want to develop all UI parts in web technologies only and will use the unity3d for 3d part only.
Points that are very important to consider - 1. Memory optimization and allocation 2. Quality 3. Shaders 4. Materials 5. Lighting 6. Mesh editing, mesh creation at runtime 7. Ar 8. Vr 10. Support on different browsers including mobile browsers 11. Physics(gravity, collision, cloth simulation, etc.) 12. Initial load time 13. Speed and performance 14. Max vertices count. What happens when we load models exceeding max vertex count? 15. Development time 16. Learning curve (Unity3d we already working on) 17. Ease of use. What artists can do using any platform eg. in unity3d, artists can edit materials, set up lighting etc? 18. Future scope 19. Scalability 20. Integration with web ecosystem
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- Compile to iOS, Android and native apps1
- JavaScript or TypeScript1
- WebGL and Canvas rendering1
- Open Source1
- No GUI3
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pygame
- Easy to install3
- Simple1
- Lightweigt by only being 12 mb1
- Has only 2d2
- Slow1