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I am now rolling around game dev and started out making progress with creating sound,math,graphics engine with C++, then I moved to using full featured Engines like UDK and Unity.

My startup company's next project is a mobile video game for android and iOS, I started out working with unity until I was slammed with the prices (1500$ for pro + 400*2$ for android and iOS support) which is too much for us now..

Is there any other alternatives for Free or for a lower price ?

Best Regards

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Makes me wonder how your company can happily pay several hundred dollars per workstation, plus a couple more for the Windows and other basic software licenses, plus a couple more for a mac, plus network equipment, plus office space, plus utilities, plus salaries, yet is not willing to pay for a Unity license... – Panda Pajama Feb 27 at 9:53
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if your company considers paying for software on which you will base your entire business "wasting money", I think there's something really wrong with your company. – Panda Pajama Feb 27 at 9:59
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If your games are so simple that you don't need a game engine, the Android SDK is free, and XCode and the iOS SDK come for free with your iOS developer license. – Panda Pajama Feb 27 at 10:02
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This is off topic. – Laurent Couvidou Feb 27 at 10:34
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And 2300$ is cheap for a game engine. – Laurent Couvidou Feb 27 at 10:36
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You're unlikely to find any 3D engines for both iOS and Android for much less than you'd get Unity licenses. The reason being is any decent work in building a commercially viable engine generally requires substantial effort. The value in something like Unity or UDK (iOS only, unless you're a full unreal engine licensee) is that a lot of the hard work is done for you, backed by years of development effort to make a product that simply works.

The only thing I've found which may come close to your requirement (i.e. cheap game engine) is this: SIO2. I've not used it myself, nor have I seen anything made with it beyond the examples in their youtube channel: Youtube - SIO2

You may simply be in the market for a game engine, but beyond that you need to consider the documentation available as well as community and vendor provided support and beyond that the support for asset creation.

If you only want to do 2D then there are plenty of options available including Cocos-2D and variants (Cocos-2DX is based on C++ code and is cross platform).

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Corona SDK maybe Or Monkey SDK?

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