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Choosing Your Engine — Unity vs Godot vs Unreal (and Why It Matters)
Make an informed engine choice before writing a single line of game code.
Email subject:Choosing Your Engine — Unity vs Godot vs Unreal (and Why It Matters)
Topics Covered
- •Unity: industry standard, massive community, C# (your language), best mobile tooling, some licensing controversy in 2023 now resolved
- •Godot: free forever, GDScript (Python-like) or C#, smaller community, excellent for 2D, growing fast
- •Unreal Engine: AAA quality, Blueprints visual scripting, C++, overkill for mobile/casual, stunning 3D
- •For Matt specifically: Unity wins — C# fluency, best iOS/Android pipeline, most AI tooling built around it
- •GameMaker, Defold, Cocos2d: worth knowing exist, niche use cases