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I guess Amazon just started to understand they have no clue about how gamedev industry works. They invested heavily in this, but nobody wanted their proprietary
by SXX 5y ago
I guess Amazon just started to understand they have no clue about how gamedev industry works. They invested heavily in this, but nobody wanted their proprietary tech with cloud lock-in.
Now they changed strategy to compete with Epic's Unreal by making the engine actually royality-free and open source. It's very logical step that to compete with source-available product you need one under proper open source license with patents grant.
- dleslie 5y agoThere are countless free game engines, now. As a long time industry veteran: the important portion is how the asset pipeline works and whether I can port existing assets or acquire new ones. Assets are all that matters.
- SXX 5y agoCountless free as in free beer ones, but very few are under real open source license. And of open source ones very few are production-ready. For once there is chance that Amazon is big enough to make porting to consoles less of a pain in the ass.