Free or cheap
Professional grade
Code in C#
Code offline
Great auto-completion
Powerful debugging
Integrates with Unity
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Visual Studio Code
Amateur/Pro software gap is so thin.
Visual Studio Code is powerful and free.
You can drop Notepad now.
Say thank you, Microsoft.
Free or cheap
Professional grade
Lots of tutorials
Active community
Fast prototyping
Easy to learn
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Unity
Game devs, start your game engines!
I know what you’re thinking.
Why not go with Unreal Engine?
I get it. I’ve been there.
Make sure your game concept is well defined.
And that you’re ready to throw it away.
Because it’s going to fail.
Just fail faster and don’t get attached.
Heard of Fail Faster? No?
Then go look it up. Yes, now.
You have an idea for a video game.
And you want to make it happen.
Congrats, you’re a game developer now.
Welcome to the games industry.
But remember. It’s not about ideas.
It’s about making ideas happen.
This is the beginning. It’s the custom to say hello to the world.
So there. Hello, World!
Now, let’s start making games.