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The fallout to Unity’s recently announced price changes, including the new Unity Runtime Fee, keeps getting worse. While Unity have been mostly radio silent since the announcement, Unity developers certainly haven’t been. Now, they are fighting back in the only way they can, by hitting Unity in the pocket book. …
On Monday we reported on Unity’s new pricing plan which proposed among other changes, to add a Unity Runtime fee starting on January 1st to all Unity developed titles (ever) that met certain income thresholds. To say this was unpopular with developers would be an understatement. Since the initial announcement …
The Godot Foundation have just announced the new Godot Development Fund. This is a mechanism, similar to the Blender Development Fund, meant to help support the development of the Godot game engine through financial donations. Details from the Godot blog: Reducing platform fees, amplifying impact The Development Fund will make …
Today Unity have announced several massive changes to their pricing structure and the plans available to users of the Unity game engine. The heart of the changes is a new Unity Runtime fee, that kicks in January 1st (even on already shipped Unity titles!), which will require developers to pay …
Since launching the Epic Game Store back in 2018, Epic Games have announced a number of incentives to attract developers to their platform. This includes offering royalty free usage of Unreal Engine and a very developer friendly 88/12 revenue sharing model. Today they have announced an even better developer split… …
The ongoing lawsuit between Epic Games and Apple, started all the way back in August 2020 is now over, with Apple winning on 9 of 10 claims. This was decided by the US Ninth Court of Appeal upholding the decisions of Judge Rogers in September 2021 (TL;DR summary here). Details …
If you are an indie developer creating PC games, it has just become easier to publish your title to the Epic Game Store thanks to new self publishing features. Details of the new feature from the announcement blog: We’re pleased to announce the Epic Games Store is now open to …
If you are an indie game developers, with a PC or Console game in development with at least a playable demo, the just launched Game Dev Fund might be ideal for you. It is an early stage investor and mentoring program composed of several game and game engine developers ( …
Last June Unity announced they would be laying off 4% of their workforce, or slightly over 200 people. A few days back Unity CEO John Riccitiello announced that Unity would be laying off an additional 284 employees. Unlike the earlier layoffs though, these ones are mostly from overlapping positions, most …
Launched last month by key Godot Engine leaders, W4Games just announced they have received an $8.5M investment from a number of different sources. W4Games was formed to support Godot engine development in several areas where it currently faces difficulty, including support for proprietary consoles as well as in corporate use. …
