hi, i travel a lot, is it possible to code in the cloud and look at output in a smartphone? i’m just interested in simple 2d games
Hi, I’m assuming you atleast have a laptop? If you do you can use the unity remote app on your phone to test your game as a you build it in the Unity editor once it’s connected via USB. Hope this helps
whats the minimal laptop i would need? i have a chromebook, but that apparently won’t work, even with linux installed. i live on ssi. so i cant afford much of anything
Even older laptops (within 6 years or so) are capable of running unity in most cases. Even some cheap one that isn’t particularly fast could do the trick, but you should opt for a 64 bit machine and a 64 bit operating system for sure.
I’d say craigslist or some other second hand website might help find one cheap.
EDIT: also, Mac works fine, so long as its not really old, and to publish for iOS you need one, or at the very least to run a virtual machine with OSX on it. Just for android your fine to use a windows machine though.
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This. My current laptop is a seven year old Panasonic Toughbook that I purchased off of eBay for under $200. Hardware in older systems is not that as far behind modern systems as companies would like us to think. It’s not at all uncommon to see people on reddit mention that they’re continuing to game on first and second generation Intel i5s and i7s.
Below are some examples from a liquidation company that I have purchased computers from in the past. Keep in mind that these are former business machines and therefore can be upgraded further than most consumer machines of the same time period but they don’t necessarily have the best PSUs for upgrading graphics hardware.
Keep in mind that shipping may add up to $25.
https://www.pcliquidations.com/
https://www.pcliquidations.com/p74590-dell-optiplex-790-usff - Core i3-2120 - $87
https://www.pcliquidations.com/p57735-dell-optiplex-790-usff - Core i5-2400S - $120
https://www.pcliquidations.com/p15785-dell-optiplex-990-desktop - Core i7-2600 - $200
To date the best deal I’ve picked up was a Dell Optiplex workstation that came with an Intel Xeon 4-core/8-thread and 12GB of DDR3 for $15 at a rummage store. Shortly after purchasing it I upgraded the processor to an Intel Xeon 6-core/12-thread processor for $18. Total cost of the whole system was $33.
That being said new computers don’t have to be expensive either. If you already have a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse, and so on you only need to replace the main unit itself. Below is an example of a completely new system.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DjVH29 - Intel Celeron G3930 - $200
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Personally I’m developing on a Macbook Air. I discuss it a bit on my devlog; while the specs are too puny for anything graphically intensive, it’s plenty for mobile games, and then the significant advantage kicks in. This laptop is teeny tiny, so I carry it everywhere and my productivity has shot up.