Garry Newman: The new Unity pricing would have cost him $410,000 of lifetime revenue (i.vgy.me)
This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)...
Five former Ubisoft executives arrested after sexual harassment investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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Over 500 developers join Unity protest against Runtime Fee policy (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Stride Game Engine - Unity's Licensing Changes: Discovering Stride, a Community-Driven Open Source Engine (www.stride3d.net)
Explore the key differences between Unity and Stride, a C#-based, open-source game engine powered by .NET 6 (soon .NET 8). Learn how Stride’s flexibility and native .NET support offer a unique development experience.
Switching from Unity to Godot: Tips and What You Should Expect (popcar.bearblog.dev)
I made a blog post about my experience switching from Unity to Godot earlier this year, and some tips for Unity devs. Hopefully this can be useful for Unity devs considering the switch.
The Level Design Book, an amazing free online resource. (book.leveldesignbook.com)
This resource definitely deserves more attention, and, albeit being incomplete in some points, I’ve been finding to be extremely useful while designing my game, not just its levels. In particular the initial chapters about experience goals have changed my perspective on design.
Game Mechanic Idea: Peripheral Hallucinations
Have a bunch old game ideas collecting dust. I’ll never get to them, so I Thought I’d post some here for anyone to use however they wish....
What tools or resources do you recommend for creating game art and assets?
Unity owned ECS patent uses techniques described in 2013 Stack Exchange post (github.com)
The 2013 StackExchange post [^1] describes what is now commonly called an “archetype” based ECS architecture that was implemented as compile time archetypes in the author’s open source project in Feb 2018 ^3. A similar ECS model was described later in the June 2018 patent filed by Unity ^2 and active since 2020....
Humble advice for those who want to switch to game development
There are a lot of questions and intentions to move into gamedev from developers who are burnt out at their jobs. And that’s okay. From my own experience, I have a couple of pieces of advice that are not very professional....
Unity Software to lay off 1,800 employees, or 25% of staff (www.cnbc.com)
Unity Software said Monday that it would lay off about 1,800 employees, or 25% of its overall workforce, as part of a corporate restructuring plan....
Where can I look for gamedev (or almost any other dev) jobs?
My main issues are living in a country (Hungary), where a college degree would be almost mandatory for any dev jobs (mainly due to HR being dumb), also I'm disabled so my only job opportunity is a crappy government program one that pays half the minimum wage for full-time employment (!!!!!!), but this is the only no-12 hour...
I'm a gamedev! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
#Memes
Epic Games says its titular store remains unprofitable (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Bevy game engine 0.12! (www.youtube.com)
For people who want to read instead of making coffee while listening (or more details), the actual release notes: bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-12/
Road to Vostok Godot Port Update #3 (www.patreon.com)
The first 2 updates can also be seen below....
Pistol Shrimp and the importance of owning what you make (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Ex-Toys For Bob developers Fred Ford and Dan Gerstein talk about The Ur-Quan Masters 2, tools, and what it was like switching engines to Godot midway through development | GamesIndustry.biz
Move From Unity to Unreal Engine in Minutes with Utu – GameFromScratch.com (gamefromscratch.com)
Unity apologises. (www.pcgamer.com)
Migrate to Unreal Engine, License, Royalty, Useful Info, Your Options (www.youtube.com)
I made a video to help Unity devs quickly navigate things before they make decisions. Watch is not necessary I copy paste my video description below with all the links I shown in video. If you like to hear my thoughts or opinion then watch I don’t mind, I don’t use youtube video to make a living....
Unity Price Change Fallout Keeps Getting Worse
Unity Price Change Fallout Keeps Getting Worse - GameFromScratch.com gamefromscratch.com/unity-price-change-fallout-ke… #Unity3D #GameDev
I work at an Unity-adjacent company - Here's what's happening
Per the CEO in today’s meeting:...
Unity tweaks new install fees as developers threaten to jump ship (www.gamedeveloper.com)
The Death of Unity - gamedeveloper.com (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Godot on laptop using external GPU? Good idea? Bad idea?
So I’m looking for advice on external GPUs. I want to try out Godot, but I don’t have a GPU. I don’t think I’ve ever had a GPU in fact. I’m a software developer actually, python mostly, but I’ve never done GPU stuff in my work, and my PC gaming days were mostly prior to the existence of GPUs. So I’m way out of...