this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
761 points (98.5% liked)

Technology

59166 readers
2125 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle::Even though the company behind the wildly popular game engine walked back its controversial new fee policy, the damage is done.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] tungah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's vital that the community now makes the effort to recreate what was made around Unity with the voluntary support material and everything that made it a reference of approachability, over with an open source alternative that may become definitive.

Going to Unreal Engine, even though it might look like the obvious move atm, might be near sighted, and unwise.

What's preventing this from happening again down the line with another big corporation? Monetary incentives always change.

Is it Godot? Maybe.

The community needs it's blender, and now may be the best opportunity to do it. It's a matter of organization and foresight. It's been proven to be doable.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

Godot is the only really viable alternative, IMO. No other open source engine comes close.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to point out that, actually, Blender has an integrated game engine. It's not very feature rich, but it integrates it's 3D renderer seamlessly. Just find it ironic, that Blender is really a candidate to be gamedev new Blender.