Unity Thinks You’re A Sucker

Are you willing to bet your livelihood on Unity’s new “Unity Runtime Fee“ that will charge certain developers that use their engine up to $ per installation? The game development community is up-in-arms about the recent announcement and rightfully so. It’s a terrible overreach by the top minds at Unity and exploits the very creators that have made their game engine so successful. Without games, game engines don’t matter. Let’s mobilize the frustration and let the top brass at Unity know that this decision is NOT OK. Post on Twitter with the hashtag: #NOUNITYWITHFEES And express your frustrations with this decision to let Unity know that this is not ok. 0:00 Unity’s Announcement Was A Warning Shot 2:18 Why the “Unity Runtime Fee“ Is An Opportunity For You 4:25 How You Can Fight Back 5:07 How We Can Change Game Dev Software Forever ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STAYATHOMEDEV ►► TWITTER ►► ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game Engine Alternatives (via GamesFromScratch): Unreal Engine – Commercial/Source Available – 2D/3D Godot Engine – Open Source – 2D/3D GameMaker – Commercial – 2D Construct 3 – Commercial – 2D GDevelop – Open Source – 2D Defold – Open Source(ish) – 2D Cocos Creator – Hybrid – 2D/3D PlayCanvas – Hybrid HTML – 3D BabylonJS – Open Source HTML Flax Engine – Commercial/Source Available WickedEngine – Open Source O3DE – Open Source – 3D UNIGINE – Commercial – 3D Stride Game Engine – Open Source – 3D Bevy Engine – Open Source Rust – 3D Fyrox Engine – Open Source Rust – 3D Heaps/Haxe – Open Source – 2D/3D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resources: UNITY PRICING CHANGE ►► KOTAKU STORY ►► GODOT ENGINE ►► GODOT FOUNDATION ►► GODOT ENGINE LICENSE INFORMATION ►► ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #godot #godotengine #unity