Augmented Reality Game Development

Getting started with Unity

Unity is a great platform to start learning game development or even shipping a commercial game. It is the choice of game engine for many of the popular games in the Android or iOS app stores. So, what makes Unity such a great platform to develop games on? The following is a short list of things that make Unity such a compelling platform to develop games on:

• It is free to get started: There is a ton of free assets or code you can use to build games. We will look at a number of free assets in this book.
• Incredibly easy to use: You could likely build a complete game in Unity without writing even one line of code. Fortunately, you will learn some scripting and how to write code in this book.
• Entirely cross platform: With Unity, ...