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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 …
Last week Unity announced their new Unity Runtime Fee, which was met with more or less universal hatred. News got worse after that, when it was discovered Unity had quietly altered their terms of service and that Unity reps were reaching out to clients saying they wouldn’t have to pay …
This is a question that comes up quite often in video comments, is it legal to use the assets from the asset store of one game engine, in a different game engine? Perhaps you want to take advantage of giveaways or sales that are happening on a game engine that …
Using Asset Store Assets In Other Engines — Is It Legal? Read More
Due to the recent price changes at Unity more developers than ever are looking to move to another game engine. Of course if you have a game in progress or thousands of dollars in asset store assets, leaving isn’t a simple process. Today’s feature, the Utu Plugin goes a long …
Move From Unity to Unreal Engine in Minutes with Utu Read More
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 …
With all the recent controversy surrounding Unity since their ill advised runtime fees more and more Unity developers are expressing their outrage. Increasingly many of those Unity developers have expressed a desire to move to a different game engine (many of our recommendations are available here). One very common consideration …
With the recent pricing changes at Unity which have not been well received several developers are now actively searching for Unity game engine alternatives. The following is a quick rundown of suggestions, source code availability, 2D or 3D functionality and a link to learn more about that engine. As you …
