So I knew Unity was awesome. I never realised how awesome! Let me list a few things that make working in Unity the best decision I’ve made in my whole career.

1) Scripting in C#

• c# in Unity gives you full auto complete and a great debugger using Mono Develop.
• Scripts update live as you edit them even when the game is running.
• The game never crashes when your scripts crash (not so true with infinite loops but you can’t win em all).
• Public variables are exposed to the editor automagically.
• You can then edit them on the fly even while the same is running.

2) Asset Importing

• Art asset importing is really straight forward.  We figured it all out in half a day including animation, shaders and meshes.

3) Physics

• PhysX is pretty darn good.
• There is an automagic convex hull generator for any mesh.

4) Animation

• You can author animations inside of Unity.
• They are the same as animations imported from other programs so I can make place-holder animations while I wait for shiny artist made one.
• Animation events! you can call any script function on an object from a time in an animation. You can also pass parameters to those functions.
• Animation curves are their own object so I can use them for anything, like…. acceleration curves on a player character. The animation curves are exposed and editable on the fly in the editor just like any other variable.

5) Cross platform

• Awesome

6) Unity community.

• If you can think of it, there’s probably already a solution for it on the Unity Community forums. Like for example a visual Shader editor that’s free and more featured and better integrated than other applications like mental mill. Strumpy-Shader-Editor

There’s are just a few reasons why I’m really enjoying working with Unity.