Instructions for Downloading Unity!

In this post, I will describe how to install Unity. The new 4.2.2 version can be downloaded at http://unity3d.com/unity/download. To download the program, it takes roughly 881 MB of data to download and around ten minutes. After that, you must accept the terms and conditions and finish installing the program. After installing, you have the option of deciding to get the free version, buy the pro version, or obtain a thirty day free trial of the pro version. Then answer a questionnaire about what game applications you create is brought up. After the questionnaire completion, Unity is launched. The following window is then displayed.

 

After picking an import package, Unity opens a new project. The great thing about this is that a “Welcome To Unity” window appears which has tutorial and help forums. The tutorial will take you to Unities website with beginner videos. Unity contains 5 basic views of development they are the: Scene, Hierarchy, Game, Project, and Inspector views. These all make up the main screen which is shown below.

Your instillation of Unity is now complete. In future posts I will describe more of Unity works and how basic games are formed. The great thing about Unity is that there are many different help menus and tutorials to help get started! It is also a great program because it can make many different games for many different platforms. I will focus on Facebook, but switching form one platform to another should not be too difficult. I will keep exploring Unity, so stay tuned for future posts.