Unity3D and game engines

A game engine is a software framework designed for the creation and development of video games. Many tools and frameworks are available for game designers and developers to code a game quickly and easily without building from the ground up. As time passed by, game engines have become more mature and easy for developers, with feature-rich environments. Starting from native code frameworks for Android such as Unity, Unreal, Cocos2D-x, LibGDX , and so on, the game engines started providing clean user interfaces and drag-drop functionalities to make game development easier for developers. These engines include lots of the tools which are different in user interface, features, porting, and many more things but all have one thing in common; that is they create video games at the end.

We will discuss some of the most popular game engines in this section by comparing those on the basis of:

• User Interface and environment like how easy it is to learn and develop games.
• Features and functionality like what game engine can achieve and do and on what level of quality.
• Pricing like is it free or paid.

Let's get into more details with this comparison.