

Soon enough, it became one of the best cross-platform engines with over 25 supported platforms. To many people’s surprise, Unity was first announced as a Mac OS X-exclusive game engine. The engine initially used MonoDevelop code editor but has switched to using the much more powerful Visual Studio.

Unity was released in June 2005 and has dominated the mobile and indie markets ever since. The engine can be used by solo developers, small indie teams, and massive AAA studios. Just from the above-mentioned features, you can already see why Unity is so popular.

Let’s start with the game engine whose apps are used by 2 billion monthly active users - Unity.
