Get started by downloading them from the Unity Hub. With both alphas and betas, you have an opportunity to influence our development process by using the new features and providing feedback via forums and bug reports.īecause there may be feature-stability issues with these early releases, we do not recommend them for projects in production, and we highly recommend that you back up any project before you open it with an alpha or beta release.īoth our alpha and beta releases are open to everyone, so no signup is required. Learning C by Developing Games with Unity 2020 (5th ed.) An enjoyable and intuitive approach to getting started with C programming and Unity Harrison Ferrone, Click to preview Publishers note: This edition from 2020 is outdated and does not make use of the most recent Unity and C features. As such, alphas come with a higher stability risk than beta releases, which are feature complete and receive only stabilizing updates. While a TECH stream version is in alpha, we release updates with new features on a weekly basis until we reach feature completeness. At the same time, the features get tested collectively for the first time. During the alpha phase, we’re progressively adding all the new features that are scheduled to be part of the final release. Alphas are the first public releases of a new TECH stream version of Unity. OS: Windows 7 SP1+, 8, 10, 64-bit versions only macOS 10.12+ Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, and CentOS 7.