© Jared Halpern 2019
Jared HalpernDeveloping 2D Games with Unity https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3772-4_2

2. Introduction to Unity

Jared Halpern1 
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New York, NY, USA
 

This chapter covers the Unity Editor—installing, configuring, navigating its windows, using its toolset, and getting familiar with the project structure. Not all of this material will be immediately relevant to your everyday work in Unity, and you’ll probably have to refer back to this chapter a few times in the future anyway, so don’t try to commit it all to memory on the first go.

Install Unity

First thing’s first: head over to https://store.unity.com and download Unity. Because we’re just learning to use Unity, get the Personal version, which is free.

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