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Unity (game engine)
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Unity is a type of game engine that was developed by a video game development company called Unity Technologies. The Unity engine allows developers to make both 2D and 3D games.  It currently supports the C# programming language, which you can use in a visual,[2] or text format. It supports Direct3D, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Metal, Vulkan, and proprietary API. Since 2016, Unity offers services on the cloud.[3]

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2005Unity 1.0
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2007Unity 2.0
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2010Unity 3.0
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2012Unity 4.0
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2015Unity 5
2016
2017Unity 2017
2018Unity 2018
2019Unity 2019
2020Unity 2020
2021Unity 2021
2022Unity 2022
2023Unity 2023
2024Unity 6

Unity is supported on Windows and macOS, as well as 27 more platforms.[4] In 2016 Unity changed from one time purchase into a subscription model. There currently exist one free and three paid licensing options: Personal (Free), Plus, Pro, Enterprise.[5] Unity 6 the version 6.0 was released on April 29, 2024[6]A full version of Unity 6.1 will be released in October 17, 2024.[7]

Unity has a robust collection of official tutorials to help familiarize new developers with the engine. Additionally, it has thorough documentation that they update to be accurate with each new Unity release. The tutorials and documentation make use of pre-built assets that are available in the default Unity program. Developers can use these instead of being forced to write all of their code from scratch.[8][9]

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