Which engine would you choose for your next game:

Exactly, same here.

I step'd into Unity from GameMaker, and man, I haven't looked back.

Same here. :P I just didn't understand it. :L

Same.

Unity isnt very difficult if you have experience with gamemaker

same bro XD *FISTBUMP* XD Plus when I tried unity, I couldn't figure out anything...XD I thought they said it was "newbie friendly"

IMO its way friendlier than udk

Easier to learn but imo UE4 is fucktons better..
again... just my own opinion after experiencing both xD

Me too... =P

gamemaker is great . . . just great

Thanks for the advice. I hoping to try making a small indie game, as part of my college course. Glad to know I'm looking at the right engine! xD

unity was my first foray into game development at all, and since then i have looked at Torque3D and JME3, but i am still with unity. It has a great workflow, many good features even for the free license, and is very easy to pick up and learn. theres so much documentation that you would die of old age before you read it all.

I have to correct myself, as I have fallen in love with Unreal Engine. Not only is the support and community one of the best things I have ever seen, but the license system itself is so consumer friendly. They seem to update the engine so frequently with wonderful content, that keeping a constant subscription is actually not even a bad idea. I you are someone with advanced programming skills or who is simply looking into making very high quality games, Unreal Engine is probably your best bet (CryEngine is supposed to have awful support, but I have not tried it yet).

... don't forget, best priced engine as well. :D

Tip: Download UE4's source code.

You really are a fanboy aren't you?

Yeah... I've practically grew up with both the Unreal game and engine series.

I did forget to mention that another downfall (also its biggest flaw) is also the lack and discouragement of user mod content, which they stated they will resolve soon.

Excuse the typo from my previous comment above, and here is this list below to correct that:

UE4: 5% royalties
UE3(UDK): 25% royalties
UE2: 15%-25% royalties

I think for starters with $0 upfront in fact UE4 is all you want, it only cost you that 5%if you pass a certain threshold, so for free games it is $0 on your group even if you have 3 developers, where unity even if the game where free it will still cost you.

And you have from start all the features (without extra payments or more money) that is you have the full source code of the engine and of the editor, and other resources like the "2 millions in assets from infinity blade".

Games like The Forest, Starforge, Gone Home, Dead Trigger, and Rust indicate that Unity isn't just just for small mobile games or for kids who think they can make games...as you claim. Dear Esther is currently being remade in Unity too.

that would be unity pro which costs $1,500 or $75/month hardly a good deal when UE4 $19 with the option to cancle updates which cost per month and %5 of revinue made on the final game, when you get full acess to source code, easy codeing visulizer (blueprints) and a engine almost as powerfull as cryengine 4 with full phiscis support, shaders and countless other things that make it better than unity free, its a no brainer for anyone whose done there research, the only excuse is if youve already learnt a different engine.
-it trumps cryengine by focusing on the same level of pipelineing that unity has while still offering amazing visuals -cryengine is known to be non user friendly for those that dont know codeing inside out

Dear Esther is being ported via Unity to multiplatforms because a) he spent that money b) littlelostpoly is an enviroment artist -not a coder.

And what is the point you're trying to make? My post is in direct response to Arshia001 saying that Unity is only good for small games or for kids. When the fact of the matter is, it's not. Whether Unreal is or is not better has absolutely nothing to do with that.

But since you bring up Unreal, let me tell you that initial cost isn't everything when it comes to game engines and game development. For a hobbyist, that 5% royalties doesn't mean much because they generally don't expect to hit it big, they're just doing it for fun. But for people who plan on doing game dev for a living, that 5% is a huge consideration.
Ease of use, required time investment, and many other things are also crucial factors which CAN make $1500 Unity Pro significantly less expensive than UE4, even with the higher initial cost. Remember, time is money and which engine is "better" depends entirely on your project and needs.

With my game BHB for example, switching to Unreal would be prohibitively expensive, to the point where it grossly exceeds any money saved from UE4's lower initial price. Then there's the fact that Unreal 4 offers me nothing I need that I'm not already getting in Unity 4/5. Therefore in my case, Unity Pro is a way better deal than Unreal. So it's not as clear cut as you make it out to be...

My team is switching too cry engine for the visuals. No other free engine we have found quite matches it. However, the looks at unreals new particle systems, along with what I've heard has built in buoyancy with the water(haven't confirmed myself) makes me want to maybe try it. But I will say that the cry engine is what we are using for our next game.

Cryengine is awesome. I used it extensively. My biggest love for this engine is the outdoor scenes. No other engine comes close to rendering what cryengine does in the outdoors.

Seriously, it's too bad Project Anarchy?, is bad because is only for mobile devices?