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Collective letter to unity from game development companies

by thatcherthorn on 9/26/23, 4:23 AM with 11 comments

• by brucethemoose2 on 9/26/23, 5:14 AM

  These all seem to be mobile devs.

  And I see a lot of Connect 4, Farmville Idle type games on their websites with lots of suspicious marketing and premium features. Homa Games even has a rather blatant Donut County clone.

  ...I get it, mobile devs gotta develop for the market, and maybe I'm missing some of their gems. But when they say things like:

  > ...we’ve invested years in shaping an industry that touches the lives of millions worldwide...

  > ...it has inspired us to create new immersive worlds...

  It feels a bit disingenuous, like they are trying to come of as struggling indie masterpiece devs. I would feel much more sympathetic if I saw, say, Mobius Digital in there.

  Unity does this too, and it bothers me even more.

• by magedqwani on 9/26/23, 5:06 AM

  the only solution that will really help is to open source the engine and be a support company like red hat . but i doubt it they should work on godot engine as its open source non reversible license

• by andsoitis on 9/26/23, 5:01 AM

  > We are the collective voice of the game development industry—developers, game designers, artists, and business minds.

  What gives you the right to claim that you speak for me?

• by ChrisArchitect on 9/26/23, 5:10 AM

  September 14th?

  Anything new since? /s