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I am disabled and have played a bunch of games (DRM-free only, via GOG or Humble Bundle) and I can confirm that Unity games are extremely common, including on t
by joveian 7y ago
I am disabled and have played a bunch of games (DRM-free only, via GOG or Humble Bundle) and I can confirm that Unity games are extremely common, including on tiny 2d games, visual novels, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if over 5 of 8 games in the past decade (or at least the last 8 years) used Unity.
Interestingly, from the Wikipedia page it seems that Unity was a result of "our game didn't do well but we made awesome tools". They now have 2000+ employees according to Wikipedia.
The employee numbers on some of these companies is misleading. Nintendo does not just make video games, but the employee count covers everyone. CD Projekt employee count includes GOG and is somehow mostly the developer side, but GOG still has 172 employees (but not a single employee over 50, and only 2 in all of CD Projekt :/, also for anyone else wondering while I'm looking at the stats, GOG is a bit under and the rest of CD Projekt a bit over 25% women). It looks like Valve does both development and Steam with 360ish employees.
Also publishers often do quite a bit of QA and such for games they publish (even if it often doesn't seem like it :/), so comparing publishers with studios that have outside publishers is also not getting the full picture.
Also worth noting the open source RenPy that a number of visual novels use.