Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds

• Asifall@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure someone will try, but it seems nearly impossible to do this in a way that’s actually useful. Most game engines are going to have fundamental differences that won’t easily map to the unity way of doing things

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Art assets, sound effects, storylines, that sort of thing transfers pretty easily.

    Rigging, animations, scripting, physics…these pretty much don’t and would have to be rewritten from scratch.

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … not really, and for what a few years? Indie devs don’t have a lot of money, and there is a huge discrepancy between unity and other engines. They work in fundamentally different ways.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are some pretty big games built in unity, the money on the table is coming from them, (assuming reasonable licensing terms) not the small indie games.

    I may be entirely off the mark, as I don’t work in that part of the industry. But I’ve messed around with unity and it’s not particularly unique compared to any other engine it competes with in my experience, particularly when it comes to actual runtime. Assets will need conversion and sure, the API shim will probably give a performance hit, but there’s no reason I can see that unity is fundamentally different.

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