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Is this an advertorial?

lproven 3y ago
[Article author here] No. This is what happens when one of a dozen press releases I get every day, all containing loads of hype, has a few buzzwords I recognise from pre-Windows pre-Mac pre-Lisa tech. I asked the PR person some questions. They had no idea at all. So, they put me in touch with the CTO, I asked him the questions, and realised this was something huge and complicated. We had a video chat, he absolutely blew my mind with some of the demos, and I tried to boil it down into a relatively short article. I guess I boiled it down too much if it came over like syrup. :-(
- taspeotis 3y ago
  Thanks for replying. My suspicions were raised because absolutely everything is effusive. Like: > It can now talk to Unity, which we've previously called "the most popular cross-platform game engine favored by video game developers". This might be true but in light of recent events you might temper the enthusiasm for Unity a bit by calling it beleaguered.
  - lproven 3y ago
    You did read the dateline on the article, right? > Thu 23 Mar 2023 // 10:02 UTC TBH I do not follow videogame news at all, really. I read Penny Arcade, though. That's where some of this crossed my personal radar. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/15/disunity https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/15/disunity https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/18/undercraw https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/18/undercraw Note the dates in those URLs. My impression is that the controversy is more recent than the article, and back in March, Unity was not as "beleaguered" as currently. Not that John Riccitiello (whoever he may be) was popular. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/20/low-and-slow https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/20/low-and-slow When I wrote "we previously called" that means "someone else from the Register said this in the past". The link was to a 2017 article. The real purpose of the backlink is to explain what Unity is to readers who don't know. I personally am not enthusiastic about Unity. I am not a gamer or a developer. I am totally indifferent to it. I don't care in any way. I have bought one (1) new computer game in the last decade. I think it might have been written with Unity but I don't know and I don't care. I'm impressed and enthusiastic about the technology behind Croquet, but I personally have no particular use for it myself. It is still cool tech, though.

[Article author here] No. This is what happens when one of a dozen press releases I get every day, all containing loads of hype, has a few buzzwords I recognise from pre-Windows pre-Mac pre-Lisa tech. I asked the PR person some questions. They had no idea at all. So, they put me in touch with the CTO, I asked him the questions, and realised this was something huge and complicated. We had a video chat, he absolutely blew my mind with some of the demos, and I tried to boil it down into a relatively short article. I guess I boiled it down too much if it came over like syrup. :-(

taspeotis 3y ago
Thanks for replying. My suspicions were raised because absolutely everything is effusive. Like: > It can now talk to Unity, which we've previously called "the most popular cross-platform game engine favored by video game developers". This might be true but in light of recent events you might temper the enthusiasm for Unity a bit by calling it beleaguered.
- lproven 3y ago
  You did read the dateline on the article, right? > Thu 23 Mar 2023 // 10:02 UTC TBH I do not follow videogame news at all, really. I read Penny Arcade, though. That's where some of this crossed my personal radar. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/15/disunity https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/15/disunity https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/18/undercraw https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2023/09/18/undercraw Note the dates in those URLs. My impression is that the controversy is more recent than the article, and back in March, Unity was not as "beleaguered" as currently. Not that John Riccitiello (whoever he may be) was popular. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/20/low-and-slow https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2022/07/20/low-and-slow When I wrote "we previously called" that means "someone else from the Register said this in the past". The link was to a 2017 article. The real purpose of the backlink is to explain what Unity is to readers who don't know. I personally am not enthusiastic about Unity. I am not a gamer or a developer. I am totally indifferent to it. I don't care in any way. I have bought one (1) new computer game in the last decade. I think it might have been written with Unity but I don't know and I don't care. I'm impressed and enthusiastic about the technology behind Croquet, but I personally have no particular use for it myself. It is still cool tech, though.