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Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honest question though, what other small engines have the support and features of unity while also having the permissive licensing they used to have?

At least when I was looking into engines unreal and unity really stood out as the only useable free engines.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's unreal, Godot, and a couple others I can't think of off the top of my head. They're not as widely used because they lack the feature set of unreal and unity, but they're out there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That’s pretty much what I thought. Unity is so big because it offers a ton of features with a pretty permissive license. There’s not something comparable except unreal, which has an even worse licensing situation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing about Unreal is that you can always negotiate with Epic Games. And if they like your project, they can even invest or provide tech support.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

True, but you also have to deal with Epic, which is a downside for many. It’s a great engine without a doubt, but it does come with its downsides too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I dunno if Epic's licensing is worse. At least it's a cut of revenue and not charging per install.

Not to mention that Epic gives sweetheart deals to indies periodically. They make their money from Fortnite, not the engine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Unity got popular because it was simpler than unreal, and way more feature complete than Godot.

Was.. these days unreal is easier to work with, and Godot is much more capable. So it's mostly inertia at this point. And now everyone is going to take a real hard look at the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not a game engineer, so someone else who's actually in that segment of the industry can probably give more answers, but Godot and Bevy seem to be making some waves.

And if they're not enough for what a dev needs, given these license changes, I don't really understand why someone wouldn't pick unreal or something much more comprehensive over unity now.

Correct me if I'm off the mark, but unity always seemed like what you'd go for if you wanted something like unreal, but (completely understandably) didn't want to pay the fees associated with it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I only prefer unity for 2 reasons, 1. I have assets that I've purchased. 2 I like c#.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
  1. You can actually import assets from unity into godot using a 3rd party add-on (If the assets license allows is)
  2. Godot has C# scripting
[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 2 years ago

It depends on the game you're making.

Godot has a dedicated workflow for 2D games, so I'd rather make one of those color sorting puzzle games that's all people play on mobile these days in Godot than Unity or Unreal.