Well put.

I absolutely agree here. But on the other hand I have read that 2009 was the year of independent game developers. Many people painted their pictures and used the fitting hammer to nail it on the wall.
There were thousands of them and many of them earned good money. They filled many gaps. Lots of good adventures came from small developers. Most of the mobile games were made by indies and there are web games from small and medium developers.

The indie market grew while big publishers lost ground with packed products.

And fact is that most of these indies switched to Unity. I have read about ten-thousands of flash developers who changed to Unity, many of them want to change.

I also have read that Unity sold more than 90 thousand licenses after they released their free base version. So this marketing tool worked fine for them.
I would call this a success.

Regarding the price policy:
When I keep in mind that they integrated 2 professional middleware tools like Umbra and Beast then it is absolutely fine to pay this little upgrade price for the technology. This is the right way to grow this technology, to let it become the best tool available.

If all this is not needed, there are enough alternatives like Ogre, Irrlicht, T3D, C4, Shiva or Gamestudio, though it depends on the platforms you are aiming for.

If all this is not needed, there are enough alternatives like Ogre, Irrlicht, T3D, C4, Shiva or Gamestudio, though it depends on the platforms you are aiming for.

It depends, but some engines need you to program tools or additionnal plugins or things like Ogre3D ou Irrlicht even 3DGS.
C4 need strong C++ and lot of line of code (juste look at the character animation tutorial).
Unity is the ready to go 3D Engine with all standard tools , shaders ready to go.

And still, without good coding skills, you won't be able to archieve your goals. When looking at questions and answers you will notice that unity lacks programmers and that many users there are maily doing trial and error which is time consuming and doesn't really result in good code. If you don't want to write code or pay someone for doing so, you should stick to modding your favourite games or using something like fps creator.

I'm not sure if this has already being discussed in this topic. But does Unity have a integrated Code Editor (like SED or better) or do you need some external IDE to programm for Unity?

I'm more a programmer than an artist (a lot more programmer actually ) and to me the workflow of unity looks "strange".

My workflow with 3DGS is the following:
- Create test level in WED if needed
- Setup script files, load level in script (if needed)
- script everything in SED, create most entities via script or place them in WED (if needed)

As you can see I use SED the most and run everything from there. How is the workflow of a programmer in Unity?

I appreciate any sharing of experience!
Thank you

They already did.
http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=304417&page=1

yeah they have a script editor, it isnt exactly integrated, but if you open a script from within unity's project list a popout script editor comes up.

But there is also a sync tool for Visual Studio, so you can use an industrial proven programming environment.

This is something that I really dont understand
It is a common opinion that 3DGS is for programmers while Unity for artists
Why ?
Unity3d use C#, JavaScript and Boo scripts
Last edition even supports Visual studio

C lite is not that bad but is far away from being a professional language
it may be easy, ok but it is not definitely a professional tool

I quitted with with 3dgs when it was clear that Conitec was not going to support C#, as promised

The only thing that looks strange to me in Unity are the " components "
I still prefer the traditional OO programming style, same as Leadwerks or C4 , but it may be just a a matter of habit

Many professional game programmers like " components "

Yes it's stupid.
I am 90% of my Unity developing time busy in a coding editor and not in the editor itself.
People don't have to use prefabs, or whatever but things like this make your life so much easier.

Maybe some people should just try out the free version, play around a while (more than 5 minutes) and then comment about workflow, etc.