{"id":916,"date":"2018-12-20T05:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2018-12-20T06:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T01:03:27","slug":"macbook-air-for-unity-game-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/20\/macbook-air-for-unity-game-development\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air Can Be Used for Unity Game Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MacBook Air and Unity for Game Development<\/h1>\n<p>It took me almost two years to justify the MacBook purchase. \u00a0 I bought a MacBook Air. \u00a0It is an older model, but it was new from Best Buy. \u00a0It was $899 for a 13&#8243; 256GB HD and 8GB RAM. \u00a0Not the bottom of the barrel, but a little under powered as development machines go. \u00a0I had to break down and buy it because my Windows laptop really started to go. \u00a0The screen flickers on and off and the keyboard <em>usually<\/em> responds when I press a key. \u00a0It has not been portable for over a year and I have not been able to concentrate on real development for some time because of it.<\/p>\n<p>The unboxing process for the MacBook Air was easy. \u00a0I have a iPadMini, but am new to Mac OS, so there was some googling involved. \u00a0Installing software consisted of going to the app store as well as company sites directly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>App Store:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OneDrive<\/li>\n<li>xcode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Direct Sites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Office (I have a subscription to Office 365).<\/li>\n<li>Google Chrome<\/li>\n<li>Android Studio for Mac<\/li>\n<li>gimp<\/li>\n<li>handbreak<\/li>\n<li>skype<\/li>\n<li>steam (why not &#8211; let us call this research)<\/li>\n<li>amazon music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wanted, but Not Supported on Mac<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>paint.net<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would document what I did, but everything installed with just hitting Next-&gt;Next.<\/p>\n<h2>Switching to Unity<\/h2>\n<p>After playing around a bit more with Android Studio, I have decided to switch to Unity.\u00a0 The cross-platform features and idea of learning a new language intrigue me.\u00a0 It may feel like one step forward, and two steps back, but I am making forward progress, even it it is at a snails pace.<\/p>\n<p>In future posts I will start show how to to link the Unity Projects with my gitlab server from the git command line on the MacBook Air.\u00a0 \u00a0I will get in the details as to why I did not use a git UI, but that is for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacBook Air and Unity for Game Development It took me almost two years to justify the MacBook purchase. \u00a0 I bought a MacBook Air. \u00a0It is an older model, but it was new from Best Buy. \u00a0It was $899 for a 13&#8243; 256GB HD and 8GB RAM. \u00a0Not the bottom of the barrel, but a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,62,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}