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The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does! But this is for people looking for more alternatives. Different people like different things.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fair enough.

Also, speaking of alternatives, people should check out O3DE. It's based on Amazon Lumberyard, which itself it based on CryEngine, but it's FOSS and managed by the Linux Foundation.

Interestingly enough, Epic Games is a premier member, along with many other companies.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Epic games funds a lot of open source game projects, they've funded blender and Godot multiple times.

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

I wonder what their motive is.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The more game developers there are, the more potential talent they have. The more game developers there are, the more games there are to sell.

They also understand that Unreal isn't super accessible for beginners.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Could also be to prevent a potential antitrust lawsuit, since they have a de facto monopoly on AAA game engines.

Kind of like Google funding Mozilla.