Stephen Downes

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The answer is, as it always is in comparisons like this, it depends. The article offers a quick outline of each engine, compares the asset stores, links to documentation and training, talks about the development community, illutrtes (with examples) the development process, and notes that "there's one major difference between UE4 and Unity3D. Unreal Engine 4 is an open source engine. Unity3D is not." Also, Unreal is based on C++, while Unity is based on C# (C sharp).

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