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Question by SgtShadowWalker · Nov 14, 2014 at 10:14 PM · c#2djavascript2d-platformerlanguage

2D games; Javascript or C#?

Hello, So I've been wanting to make a 2D game for a while and I'm now working on the story, art, etc. I've been looking into which language is better for a 2D game and it seems that everyone is using C#. Now I'm not that good with C#, so I want to know if it's possible to make one with (mostly) Javascript.

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Either is fine but if you are starting from scratch then C# is the better language to learn. $$anonymous$$ixing the two can be problematic at times and most of the useful things you find on the Asset store are in C#, so they are far easier to modify and interact with if your use C# throughout your whole project. I have made a full game only using js though so ultimately the choice is yours.

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It's not really about which is better, it's about which one you are more comfortable coding with. It just happens that most people choose C#, but the choice is yours.

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I know js (Unityscript) far better than C#, but I'm switching over, not because I feel more comfortable with C# but because it is ultimately a better language to use.

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Answer by Jeff-Kesselman · Nov 15, 2014 at 12:22 AM

Javascript, like any scripting language, is easy and convenient for fairly small projects.

For projects of any serious size or complexity however, you need the organizational power of a real programming language such as c#.

Just about every full Unity game project I know of that started out in javascript, eventually had to move to C# to complete.

(Btw, its technically not Javascript, its Unityscript. Javascript and Unityscript are two different distinct dialects of ECMAscript. Unityscript files by convention end in .js which confuses things somewhat.)

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