Unity or Unreal engine developing on Macbook

[Nemomagic]

Hello!

I'm thinking of buying 1.3 256 for begginer's level of developing on any of this software: Unity 3D or Unreal Engine.
It will be simple 2D platformers (no tough 3D games), I am just starter on this soft.

So 1,7K $ is very expensive for me and I really can not find any reviews of Unreal Engine or Unity performance on latest rMB.

Maybe someone here has such experience - I would be very thankful for this!

Or maybe someone may help me to try it on theirs rMB 1.3 (Both Unity and Unreal Engine now free - simple download and run something) ?

Would be very happy to hear any answers

 

[elithrar]

It would likely be okay, but I wouldn't recommend it as the primary machine for this stuff. A 13" Pro would be better suited.

 

[Koudspeel]

Worth noting is that you can't run UDK on OSX.. Unless you're planning to use Windows through bootcamp.

 

[tigerduck]

UDK (UE3) won't run on OS X, but Unreal 4 does. It's not very fast on a rMBP 13" late 2013. Unity may be okay for doing simple stuff. But as soon as lighting or particles get added to the mix it'll likely be bad. UE 4 I can't imagine working satisfactory on a rMB.

I don't have my rMB yet, but I have mixed feelings about doing anything in Unity on it.

 

[Nemomagic]

Thanks for your answers!

I see that it is not very effective for such tasks.
But nevetheless maybe for simple 2D platformes it will be good enough.

I will be greateful for any experience of Unity or UE on rMB (especcially 1.3)

Thanks in Advance!

 

[Barna Biro]

Both U's are beast engines... why are you so set on them? If you really only want to do 2D games in the foreseeable future, then there are a bunch of 2D frameworks / libraries that you could use (e.g. Cocos2D, Sprite Kit, Sparrow, etc. ). This will usually mean that you won't have a fancy IDE where you'll be dragging and dropping stuff from a panel onto a scene and manually arranging stuff with your mouse, but you can still use very performant IDEs that will be of great help for programming ( which is what you'll be mainly doing ).

That being said, your rMB *might* be able to handle both U's *decently* as long as the projects are small, but as soon as you want something slightly bit more complex / graphic intensive, I'm quite sure you'll get frustrated / run into issues.

Bottom line: I'd not recommend a rMB for 3D development / design; on the other hand, for 2D, you can most likely get away with it. If you want to be on a much safer side, I recommend getting *at least* a 13" rMBP ( that's what I've been using since it first came out, but I don't really seriously develop games... more into enterprise level application development ).

 

[Nemomagic]

Thank you for meaningful answer! I will use it.