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Unity have quietly dropped a new bundle on the Asset Store, the Unity 30 for $30 Mega Bundle. This is a collection of up to 30 Unity assets organized into two tiers, one at $20 and the other at $30. The bundle is organized as follows, with the $30 tier …
After the disaster that was the Unity runtime fee announced on September 12th, the Unity developer world was absolutely set on fire. There was massive developer backlash as well as an outright revolt against Unity Ads and IronSource. All the while, the leadership team at Unity were completely silent until …
Introduced at SIGGRAPH 2023 was a paper called 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering that set the graphics world on fire. A technology for capturing the real world in 3D similar to NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields), Gaussian Splats have one major advantage that is especially important to game …
The folks over at Humble Bundle have learned a way to make a good bundle great… just add Godot to the Audio Odyssey bundle! They just added a Godot plugin to the Audio Odyssey bundle, joining plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity. Other than the plugins the bundle contains a …
In the aftermath of the ill-advised Unity run-time fee, Unity faced massive backlash from their developers including an organized protest turning off IronSource/Unity Ads. Ultimately Unity admitted they messed up and announced a vastly pared back price increase, which most importantly would only apply to new Unity versions, starting with …
With several Unity developers moving to the Godot Game Engine the C# language support in the Godot engine just became much more important for future developments. Right now C# support is not perfect with for example the following platform limitations: As it stands, Godot 4 has moved to a new …
Ever since the massive backlash over the Unity Runtime Fee many Unity developers have been looking at the alternative game engines. To help users in this process we have started the _____ Game Engine for Unity developers series starting with the Godot Game Engine, followed by the Defold Game Engine. …
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 …
