ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the readers to install the principal software tools used in this book and test them out to make sure that they run: Visual Studio, Unity, GIMP, Blender, and Audacity. Visual Studio is Microsoft’s suite of development tools. It supports a plethora of programming languages, among them C#, the language used by Unity. To test out the installation of a programming language, the first step should always be to write a “Hello World!” program. Unity is a real-time development platform for making games and similar applications for a wide variety of targets. With Unity we can develop games as well as non-game apps for PCs, Macs, game consoles, VR, and mobile devices. The name “Unity” implies that the readers can develop the game once and then deploy it to many platforms. GIMP is a 2D graphics program that we will use on occasion for the creation of 2D assets such as textures or GUI elements.
