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Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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Re: Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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Questions of this kind often boil down to specifics, as the various competitors all have strong and weak points.

As such, It will be hard for anyone to answer meaningfully without more context: What kind of game do you want to write, what skills do you currently have, what do you want to learn from this project, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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There's no simple answer to your question.

It all comes down to your use case: Are you trying to learn game development or are you developing the next AAA-Title with hundreds of developers? Which platforms are you targeting? Are you willing to pay for the engine and/or the assets?

Re: Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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The one you can afford, run, build the game you want to build, and export to the platform you want to target.

Popular games like Undertale and Spelunky were made in Game Maker, FFS. There is no "better or worse" only "more or less appropriate."

Also consider Godot. It's open source and you can compile support for multiple scripting languages into it.

Re: Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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post #2

Questions of this kind often boil down to specifics, as the various competitors all have strong and weak points. As such, It will be hard for anyone to answer meaningfully without more context: What kind of game do you want to write, what skills do you currently have, what do you want to learn from this project, etc.

We are the team of developers, actually and we are trying to create game like Dual Universe but more in a fantasy world...

Re: Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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Unity is easier to learn, Unreal has a cool ecosystem AAA developers love, Unigine has some bleeding edge stuff with great performance not found elsewhere, CryEngine can destroy any GPU you throw at it...

> CryEngine can destroy any GPU you throw at it...

As in it's so poorly optimized it will eat any GPU, or it can do bleeding edge stuff no GPU can support?

Re: Ask HN: What Engine Is Better for games: Unity, Unreal or Unigine?

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Unity is easier to learn, Unreal has a cool ecosystem AAA developers love, Unigine has some bleeding edge stuff with great performance not found elsewhere, CryEngine can destroy any GPU you throw at it...

> CryEngine can destroy any GPU you throw at it... As in it's so poorly optimized it will eat any GPU, or it can do bleeding edge stuff no GPU can support?

I think it's the latter.
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