Godot and Unity Development Comparison

Pros

• Each step is very quick

  • Installation felt lightning-fast, with no complicated steps or need to set up an account for anything

  • Producing an apk was also very quick, with very little bloatware or other software necessary to install the apk

  • Debugging was also very fast, since there was an IDE baked directly into the editor that allowed coding changes to be made.

• Labels made more sense

  • There was not an offset that Unity's labels had.

• Building code could be done in many different languages, so you could tailor your coding experience to what you know how to code in.

• Many of the up-to-date guides provided code that worked for what most (simply constructed) experiments had done

Cons

• Each step had very little information on what to do.

  • This mostly consisted of guides with specific issues

    • They only worked on specific versions of Godot (as was the case for many of the VR capabilities)

    • Many questions were problems people may have not had yet with Godot, and as such there wasn't information on how to fix it.

• Deployment of an apk never worked out, but that was likely a builder error.

Pros

• There was a lot of samples that made the beginning a project was a non-issue.

  • They had a VR sample that had everything I needed to get started with both of my projects.

• Deployment was easy

  • There were clear instructions on what I needed to do in order to get deployment working properly.

• There are so many Unity users, this led to two major benefits

  • Solving problems was very fast

    • If you had a question, Google Gemini had an answer to your problems like, 99% of the time with what you're doing, since the user base of Unity is fairly vast.

  • There were many useful, informative guides on how to do exactly what you wanted to do, no matter how complicated, or how simple. 

• Code was easy to put into different objects, since the code file itself was just a drag and drop option

Cons

• Everything took forever

  • Building my project took me multiple hours of downloading and reinstalling and trying again, mostly caused by small issues from very early in the process

  • Getting started took a long time, since I first needed to set up an account, and then downloading all the software I would need in order to build an android apk. 

• Labels were weird

  • They started off very large, but they also had strange offsets that made them difficult to place exactly where you wanted to put them.

• Coding took a while

  • This process mostly looked like having some code, building it in visual studio (not vs code), and then sending that code to your workspace in the Unity building engine. 

  • If the code failed then, one would have to wait for that to fail for that to happen.