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K. TakoordyalBeginning Unity Android Game Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6002-9_2

2. Introduction to Unity

Kishan Takoordyal1 
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As you already know, we will be using the Unity game engine in order to develop games. Unity has been written in the C++ programming language, but its scripting application programming interface (API; what we’ll use to actually code the games) is in C#. Unity can be used for much more than just making games. It can even be used to create visualizations for movies, architecture, or car manufacturing.

The benefit of using Unity rather than writing our games from scratch is that Unity already provides many ready-made tools to assist us in our game-making process, ...

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