Tech in general but especially the game industry desperately needs to unionize. If the last couple years doesn't convince tech bros they're just as expendable as all the other working class out there, idk what will. Got to do something to insulate us from "restructures", "rightsizing", and "company resets"

I appreciate you

Yeah it's a bit of a shit show for sure. Unfortunately I do not have anything else lined up right now, I know that's an unsafe decision. My life has been a mess lately I can only handle so much at once and finding different work is exhausting

Small correction they haven't fired 25% of us yet, it is a work in progress

Yep, I started my own game dev journey a year ago after a decade in the tech industry.

My gamer friends: Use Unity Bro its so easy to learn!

Hrm but uh what about cost structure, licensing, all that kind of stuff?

Doesnt matter bro, you can just port it all if it doesnt work!

Well uh, porting is actually a lot of work and burnout is a serious concern so wouldnt it make more sense to-

Youre making this too complicated, what you need to do first is-

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And that conversation was obviously useless.

Anyway yeah, I picked Godot after doing, you know actual research on all the benefits and limitations of various engines.

See, Godot, being open source, and myself, not having a huge amount of money to throw at this, and also not just knowing any reasonable or reliable people that could contribute... I can afford to work with Godot at a comfortable pace and not be driven insane by budgetary concerns and a timetable, and Godot is likely to only improve, and I can improve with it, expand the scope or add new features as they become better supported by engine updates or freely usable nifty tools and techniques proliferate.

Also at this point I am planning on really only supporting linux users, as I am again looking to do this as a hobbyist that isnt really concerned about making a ton of money, and also at this point I just literally despise every technically incompetent person non FOSS user I have ever known, so Godot suits that well.

Oh and linux gaming marketshare is growing rather rapidly.

They probably are, but it's not really about cost, it's about fear. I fear that while it costs $x to switch to Unreal Enigne now, it'll cost $x+10 after a few weeks when they do their next decision, and $x+20 a month or so after that.

Which signals to investors that there is little to no expected growth. If you aren't attracting new customers to grow your user base, then you only have the option to milk your existing customers to increase revenue.

That may work short term, but long term it signals a death knell for the company, since as the old customers retire or the studios close down, the new crop of game developers would have been trained on or adopted a different engine so aren't going to switch to Unity. Eventually they just run out of customers.

ah the mainframe strategy

I also thought of Unity the DE before reading the article

I understand the confusion. This doesn't belong to a Linux community. I mean, I see the relation with FOSS but I'm sure there are FOSS communities out there. The article doesn't even mentions Linux, just Windows and Android.

You do realize this is about the Unity game engine, right?

Was led. He left after the license fee catastrophe.

Licenses are only as good as your most expensive lawyer