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The folks over at Humble Bundle have learned a way to make a good bundle great… just add Godot to the Audio Odyssey bundle! They just added a Godot plugin to the Audio Odyssey bundle, joining plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity. Other than the plugins the bundle contains a …
In the aftermath of the ill-advised Unity run-time fee, Unity faced massive backlash from their developers including an organized protest turning off IronSource/Unity Ads. Ultimately Unity admitted they messed up and announced a vastly pared back price increase, which most importantly would only apply to new Unity versions, starting with …
In another blow to the game development industry, Epic Games have just announced massive layoffs across the company. Part of the layoffs include divesting of two recently purchased companies, Bandcamp and Super Awesome. The layoffs will impact about 16% of the Epic workforce with about 830 employees impacted. The following …
With several Unity developers moving to the Godot Game Engine the C# language support in the Godot engine just became much more important for future developments. Right now C# support is not perfect with for example the following platform limitations: As it stands, Godot 4 has moved to a new …
Ever since the massive backlash over the Unity Runtime Fee many Unity developers have been looking at the alternative game engines. To help users in this process we have started the _____ Game Engine for Unity developers series starting with the Godot Game Engine, followed by the Defold Game Engine. …
Miguel De Icaza, the founder of Xamarin and Ximian before that, the creators of the Mono cross platform C# development platform as well as the GNOME Linux desktop, has just brought Swift programming language support to the Godot game engine. Using GDExtension, the Godot 4.x extension mechanism used by other …
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Best of Synty GameDev Assets Bundle. This bundle if a huge collection of low polygon style game art packs from Synty. The assets come in both Unity and Unreal Engine formats, as well as raw asset form making …
Now that Unity have seemingly settled on a new pricing structure it is time to look at the pricing differences between Unreal Engine and Unity. We will run through 5 different scenarios describing game development studios of different sizes. First a quick overview of pricing structures. For game development projects …
Unity started a firestorm off a week ago when they announced a poorly thought out and overreaching Unity Runtime Fee and to say that Unity developers didn’t like it would be a bit of an understatement. This was back on September 12th and finally on September 22nd they have announced …
Perhaps the most uplifting story resulting from the Unity Runtime Fee fallout, was the announcement yesterday that Re-Logic, the maker of Terraria would be supporting Godot and FNA with large monetary donations. FNA is actually a fork of another popular open source game development project, MonoGame. (You can see our …
