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Unity is a cross-platform 3D game development system developed by a company called Unity Technologies (originally named Over the Edge). What does it mean to call Unity cross-platform, exactly? Well, it’s cross-platform in the sense that the Unity Editor, the game creation and editing tool that is the centerpiece of Unity, runs on Mac OSX and Windows. More impressively, Unity is cross-platform in the sense that from the Unity Editor we can build games for Mac OSX, Windows, web browsers (using either Flash, Google Native client, or Unity’s browser plug-in), iOS, Android, and game consoles. And the list keeps growing (shortly before this book's publication, Unity Technologies announced support for the BlackBerry 10)!
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Chu, P. (2013). Getting Started. In: Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4876-7_1
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