Hi I'm New to Unity

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Hi everyone,

I’m a programmer that mainly uses C++, and lately I’ve been considering developing my own games, however doing it from scratch in C++ has proven to be a difficulty and going that route may prove futile if I ever intend to develop for consoles one day. So when I heard about Unity and how many mondern games use it including those with Nintendo I thought it would be worth giving it a try and learn, however the Nintendo Developer Portal kinda scared me with the NDA. I fully understand it, however I just want to learn how to make games in Unity even if I never really get around to develop and sell a final product, and while I could do that with Nintendo I don’t want to restrict myself to one platform until I got a better understanding of how to use Unity and come up with a solid project.

So then I found out about Unity Personal and that seems to be the way to go for me, but I am still unsure. Right now I am not developing anything for a third party or a company, this is just me wanting to learn and mess around with some private projects and try them out on different platforms if I can. I have no intentions at the moment to sell or make any revenue from my work with Unity. Is it worth it?

I appreciate any advice or warnings you have to offer.

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Since you’re only planning on working on personal projects and unity is free I don’t understand your hesitation? You’ve nothing to lose just jump in

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I’m just feeling a bit cautious after reading up the rules on the Nintendo Developer Portal.

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Well if like you said you’re just planning on only working on personal projects and don’t want to sell anything you’ve got nothing to worry about. When it comes to a point where you think you want to sell something then look into it some more however for now you should just jump in and have some fun making games.

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Thanks for the advice ^^

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Not sure why this is a concern if you’re right now not intending to develop for a Nintendo console. Nintendo is very selective about what projects they accept on their platform, so planning to develop for Nintendo shouldn’t be something that is a short term goal anyway. Your early projects won’t be nearly good enough most likely, because like anything developing in Unity requires practice to get good at it.

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