I think the biggest culture shock to me that occurred while getting into game development for the first time was seeing how vastly opposite the embrace of open

I think the biggest culture shock to me that occurred while getting into game development for the first time was seeing how vastly opposite the embrace of open source is versus the web world. I mean I get it, games are often based on some "secret sauce" that developers don't want to give up or something, or maybe it's the licensing deals from publishers that cause this. But up until the ubiquity of Unreal/Unity in the last few years, game dev has been an almost strictly closed source affair it seemed. Every single third party tool or library seems to have some kind of licensing fee involved.