Unity Game Engine Free Download
Evelina Kealohanui
This can definitely be answered in more detail by one of the UT engineers, but as far as I know, it's a mixture of both. Certainly a lot of the core code is in c++, including the physics engine and sound engine, however as far as I understand, much (if not all) of the Editor UI itself, including the terrain engine and its editing tools, is written in c# using Unity's own editor scripting.
That changed this fall when popular pick Unity went from a remarkable anybody-can-make-a-game tool to a developer-enraging, threat-generating, CEO-resignation mess. CD Projekt Red, maker of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, made a point of stating that its next games would be built with the Unreal Engine, not its in-house REDengine. After Cities: Skylines 2 launched with notably rough performance, deep decompilation analysis found a bunch of seemingly Unity-related, or at least Unity-adjacent, issues.
That's why this news about another big change in a popular game engine is so striking: it's generally good. GameMaker (formerly Game Maker Studio), a 2D engine that was acquired by browser firm Opera in 2021, has simplified its licensing structure, declaring it "Free for Non-Commercial Use."
YoYo Games, creator of GameMaker, describes the moves as a way to "Say 'Thank you,'" as well as a response to "other platforms making awkward moves with their pricing and terms." Game Developer notes that this is the second pricing switch since Opera acquired the studio, after an initial move to make tinkering with the engine free, up until you publish.
Russell Kay, head of GameMaker and a former developer on Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto (the 2D versions), and other games, writes that since Opera's acquisition and subsequent freemium-like moves, the engine has seen "a three-fold increase in its active users," with more than 6,000 games published on its gx.games platform.
I wish to develop some games on Unity 3D game engine. I was unable to find the link to download the application. Can someone post the download link for Unity 3D game engine for Ubuntu and/or explain how to install it?