An Unreal Decision
I recently started getting to know Unity3d and it was extremely easy and quick to learn. One annoying discovery was that their variant of JavaScript is not real JavaScript, it's "UnityScript". It took me quite some time to convert a simple script that I had written for node.js to UnityScript.<p>I need the pro version of Unity3d to generate iOS, Android or VR games for the Oculus Rift.
For someone who is just doing a bit of indie development, that's too expensive.<p>So I checked out UE4 also. You can subscribe for a month for $19 and then continue using the version that was the current version during your one month of subscription. If you need updates later on, subscribe for another month.<p>UE4 is harder to learn but looks a lot better than Unity OOTB.<p>Anyway, I hope Unity will be competitive again regarding pricing with the imminent announcement of their 5.0 release.