Godot has a Humble Bundle of examples and tutorials right now.
Unreal Engine is also extremely powerful and comes with the bonus of being able to learn how to use it by making maps for Fortnite.
Unity will quietly waive fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation
Submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
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gk99@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’ll just link it here for anyone who wants to see it.
Jerkface@lemmy.world 1 year ago
humblebundle.com/…/everything-you-need-to-know-ab…
You can discard everything past the first question mark.
Mmagnusson@programming.dev 1 year ago
GameMaker is also a very capable 2D engine that you can use for free until you want to export, by which time you can get a subscription less than a cup of coffee.
Plenty of other engines beyond unity, no matter the game you want to make.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
learn how to use it by making maps for Fortnite
Oh wow! I don’t like fortnite, but I really appreciate the pre-existing test/training environment
highsight@programming.dev 1 year ago
Once again, Unity shows that it doesn’t care about its PC games.
Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What is it with big companies suddenly shitting on their users?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Interest rates went up, shareholders asked for returns on their investment and companies are trying to get there in the least amount of time no matter the cost. Even if the cost is total destruction of the trust in their companies. CEOs are stupid like that.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Is it really that they are stupid, if it works for them and boards keep hiring them after doing so?
Or is it that they and the boards turning a quick profit by bleeding the company dry and fucking over employees and customers alike for their own gain are simply the beneficiaries of an unfair system?
SimulatedLiberalism@hexbear.net 1 year ago
The complete financialization of the US economy.
Nearly every single S&P500 company is majority owned by institutional investors, with 88% of them having one of the Big Three (Vanguard, Black Rock and State Street) as their top investor, and with the only exceptions being Tesla, Amazon, Alphabet, Berkshire Hathaway, Facebook, Oracle, Walmart, Comcast and Kraft-Heinz where insiders are still the top shareholders. The Big Three has 15-20% controlling stakes in nearly every large American corporation, and through the means of coordinated proxy voting, dictates the policies of the board of directors.
These institutional investors are financial capitalists who see the companies as investment vessels, not as industrial capitalists who want to grow their respective industries. They could not care less if the companies go bankrupt as long as they see a return in short term profit. Vanguard, for example, has a deep $7.7 TRILLION assets and do not care at all if some of their businesses go down.
Then you have private equity firms, also known as “corporate raiders”, who raise high stake loans to perform “leveraged buyouts” of established companies. They conduct “financial engineering” i.e. paying themselves dividends, lower wages and force overtime without pay, layoff employees, skirts labor laws, refuse to honor contracts, strip off assets and saddle the companies with debt until these are forced to declare bankruptcy. Then, like true parasites, they ditch the host and jump on to the next companies to suck off their wealth built up over the past century.
You also have venture capitalist (VC) firms that leveraged Obama’s Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) era after 2009 to raise capital to profit from tech/software companies. You can read this article about how Andreesen Horowitz perform their operations to destroy software startups:
The thing about these two strategies for VC is that they both can turn a profit. That second one, though, works a little differently than the first. Regardless of whether the company succeeds, pumping its valuation before selling your shares can mean you will make money, even if the business itself doesn’t survive in the long term. But hyping a startup isn’t something a VC can do alone. He needs help. He needs the media.
It happened to Groupon. It happened to Substack. It happened to Imgur. And many others, and it will happen to Reddit and all other software companies in America.
This is by no means only restricted to software companies though, for the rot of finance capitalism had already been sown since Reagan’s and Clinton’s deregulation era that massively expanded Wall Street’s influence, and subsequently fueled most prominently by Obama’s low interest rate monetary policy for them to encroach into every crevices of American industries.
Cisco, used to be the world’s leading telecommunications company, now a shadow of its former self after being financialized by Wall Street.
Boeing, used to be the world’s leading aviation engineering company, now churning out defective products that nearly never happened in its history, after being financialized by Wall Street.
Intel, used to be the world’s semiconductor pioneer, now struggling to keep up with Taiwan’s TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung, after being financialized by Wall Street.
And this is the fate of America - a financial oligarchy will continue to devour and strip off every remnant of the American industries built up since the past century, with nothing powerful enough that can stop it in its tracks.
reflex@kbin.social 1 year ago
xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 1 year ago
If you put ! at the beginning of your link it embeds the image
reflex@kbin.social 1 year ago
Where at the beginning? I format it like this:
and the best I can do is get it to show the preview button.
Volume@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mild shock! Remember when they ‘joined forces’ with IronSource, a company that develops ‘ad technology’ last year? Is anyone really surprised by this?
vildis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
This was the first thing that came to my mind as i heard the monetization news.
What i don’t understand is in what world throwing away your credibility first would be considered a “good business move”
casmael@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Okay here we fucking go
alienanimals@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck Unity’s greedy CEO John Riccitiello
qooqie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it’s time to get of the unity train as soon as possible. This shit stinks and they might take a step back, but they’ll always push that limit again. Unreal engine has always been super fair about the monetization imo
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
While Unreal monetization is better, their EULA and ToS and as bad as Unity so they can do the same thing anytime.
qooqie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They could, but I’ve always heard/read they make so much money from everything else they really don’t care too much to fuck over devs like that. Have they ever done something similar to a dev team? Honest question
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Unity be like:
Market share? What is that? Can you eat it? Let’s get rid of it.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ah so that was the plan the whole time.
ringwraithfish@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yup. Do something so absurd to generate the rage, then apologize and announce your true intentions under the guise of a compromise.
ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
the other shoe hath fallen.