Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-Up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming

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  • bevy

    A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

  • I was crowing to my game dev buddy about how he (a Unity C-sharp developer) ought to check out Bevy and Rust because the Rust type system is friggin’ awesome!

    Code examples: https://bevyengine.org/learn/book/getting-started/ecs/

    License is Apache 2.0 OR MIT:

    https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/LICENSE-APACHE

    https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT

  • ImageSharp

    :camera: A modern, cross-platform, 2D Graphics library for .NET

  • Here's an example:

    https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp/blob/main/LICENSE#L2...

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33301518

    Again, nothing stops someone from forking and maintaining.

    Are you saying this is not legally enforceable? Because I am under the impression from my legal council it is. I can ask again to get more clarity.

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  • upbge

    UPBGE, the best integrated game engine in Blender

  • It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.

    Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects

    And

    https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...

    If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.

    [0] Beginner friendly 2D library:

    [1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

    [2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/

    [3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/

    [4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/

  • GDevelop

    :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.

  • It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community.

    Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects

    And

    https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-al...

    If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are and neither of these cover everything. There are plenty of engines popular in the Python community that no one outside of it are aware of. Such as Arcade [0], Python-Tcod [1], Ursina [2], UPBGE [3], and Panda3D [4]. But based on your description you'd really like https://gdevelop.io/. It embraces exactly what you're describing where you can build a game but just installing entire features others have made and put online into your game.

    [0] Beginner friendly 2D library:

    [1] Rougelike: https://python-tcod.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

    [2] Beginner friendly 3D engine (built on Panda3D): https://www.ursinaengine.org/

    [3] Blender Game Engine Fork: https://upbge.org/

    [4] Highly flexible code first 3D engine: https://panda3d.org/

  • Simple-Calendar

    A simple calendar with events, tasks, customizable colors, widgets and no ads.

  • Simple mobile tools shows its definitely possible [0]. Simple gallery pro has 110k reviews, for example.

    >You have a better chance of winning a lottery, happens every day.

    Agreed here, though.

    [0] https://www.simplemobiletools.com/

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