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Who uses, recommends or left Unity, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Indie game developer, creator of RimWorld and author of Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences.
uses

RimWorld is developed in the Unity engine - still on old version 5.6.

His Uses This interview, on the desk and toolchain behind RimWorld.

2019-05-21·usesthis.com ↗

Game designer and programmer, co-creator of Doom and Quake; co-founder of Romero Games.
uses

I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his game-development machines and software.

2017-06-22·usesthis.com ↗

Game designer; chief creative officer at Spry Fox (Triple Town, Realm of the Mad God) and author of the Lost Garden design blog.
uses

For the games themselves, we've used Flash, Unity or HTML. Essentially, we want to be cross platform so that once we've found an interesting game mechanics, we can quickly distribute it to as many people as possible.

His Uses This interview, on the two workstations and remote-team tools behind Spry Fox.

2012-10-09·usesthis.com ↗

Who disliked it

Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.
disliked

I’m sloooowly learning how to make changes and fixes, but I still have to ask for help a lot of the time, and I have a bad attitude about it. I just don’t like Unity.

His Donkeyspace newsletter, on using the Unity game engine to make a video game

2025-09-01·franklantz.substack.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

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What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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