[Mono-osx] MonoTouch vs Unity for iPhone

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

     Unity in general is better suited for building games, in  
particular 3D games and there is a large community of game developers  
for it.   The developer experience is mostly focused on the game side  
of the code and you will do a lot of your tune-ups in Unity itself.

     MonoTouch will work if you are planning on building your own  
engine (like the SharpGames guys did with XnaTouch), and the  
development experience is mostly focused on the code.

     I think that MonoTouch is better suited for more business-y  
application setups than games, for apps that need to use the native  
CocoaTouch APIs day-in and day-out.


> MonoTouch
> Pros:
> - .NET 2.0 and 3.5 features (which, I take it, includes generics)
>
> Cons:
> - No more MonoTouch updates after one year
>
> ---
>
> Unity
> Pros:
> - Specialized in game making, so good for me
>
> Cons:
> - .NET 1.1 (no generics)
> - Startup "Made with Unity" splash screen (unless you get the $1500  
> version
> rather than the $400 one)
>
>
> Am I overlooking anything? Has anyone tried either and can share their
> experience?
> Is MonoTouch actually a good choice to make a game (something rather  
> simple,
> 2D)? I take it it can do everything plain Objective C can do? No  
> idea what
> the graphics API is like, for example, but I assume it's iPhone  
> specific...
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