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GitHub Pages vs Unity Web Player

A side-by-side look at GitHub Pages and Unity Web Player. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages

Development

GitHub Pages is a free hosting service from GitHub that allows users to easily host static websites and webpages directly from a GitHub repository. It supports Jekyll theming and custom domains.

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Unity Web Player

Unity Web Player

Games

Unity Web Player is a browser plugin that allowed Unity games and applications to run in a web browser. It provided hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, audio, physics, and scripting capabilities via Unity's engine. The Web Player plugin has been deprecated in favor of WebGL publishing.

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