One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

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    1 year ago

    as a life long gamer who has had to ‘grow up’ and learn trades to survive and pay bills. it would be hella fun and possibly cathartic to mess with a free game engine. I’ve been playing games for 30 years. Maybe it’s time i take all that knowledge and frustrate myself on a passion project. Thank You Unity for showing me GODOT.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t have to pay for Unity/Unreal either

      I’d recommend just using mod tools if you are looking to play around because it covers a lot of the work

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    1 year ago

    I’m donating $5, not much but I love to see companies like Unity burn.

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      1 year ago

      Unity’s take is 2.5% past $1m in revenue.

      I’m never, ever going to hit those numbers, but if do, I’d rather willingly commit that 2.5% to Godot.

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        1 year ago

        Unity’s take is 2.5% past $1m in revenue.

        Is that before or after they backtracked?

        The point isn’t even whether the terms are acceptable anymore. They tried to change the deal retroactively because they felt they had a strong position in that game developers are already invested into their ecosystem.

        They may have gone back to saner terms for now but unless the entire management structure resigns, there’s no reason not to say they won’t try again in the future.

        You can’t go good business with bad people.

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          They tried to change the deal retroactively because they felt they had a strong position

          I’m honestly surprised that I have not seen by now a meme pic of Darth Vader telling Lando that the deal is being changed, but the face of Darth Vader is instead the CEO of Unity.