理解What is Unity and Game Engine and Sandbox

• Game Engine

  A game engine, also known as a game framewokr, is a software-development environment designed for people to build video games.

  The core functionality typically provided by a game engine includes:

  1. a rendering engine for 2D or 3D graphics
  2. a physics engine or collision detection, sound, scripting, animation, artifical intelligence, networking, streaming, memory management, threading, localization support, scene graph and may include video support for cinematics

• Sandbox Game

  A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that gives the player a great degree of creativity to complete tasks towards a goal within the game.

• Unity

  Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Inc.'s Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X-exclusive game engine.