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871.
by SXX 3y ago
> This is demonstrably untrue. It wasn't all that long ago that there were no game engines available for use, and yet small devs managed to produce a ton of great games anyway. Audience expectations for production quality of art, an
872.
by SXX 3y ago
I am co-founder of indie game company. Like in any business there is tons of things you have to deal with: hr and managing people, making good game prototypes and pitches, finding funding or publisher, negotiating contracts, crunching for m
873.
by SXX 3y ago
What you describing is only possible for hobby game developers with extremely small scale of a game or development time of 4-5 years. Majority of game developers simply dont have skillset to work with audio, graphics APIs and cross platform
874.
by SXX 3y ago
So you don't like Unity because of everything happen and how they threated game developers. And for that reason you want to refuse to pay those game developers? As it's now Unity dont collect any telemetry.
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by SXX 3y ago
I wish to just work on making cool games, but unfortunately my damn landlord and grocery store only care about profit and charge me money every time I have to deal with them.
876.
by SXX 3y ago
Accidentally Godot's Development Fund was announced like a day before Unity debacle.
877.
by SXX 3y ago
Building own engine and tools is not financially viable for 99% of game development companies.
878.
by SXX 3y ago
There is a big problem with creating actually free assets: * If everything will look completely different from original game majority of fans not gonna like it even if quality gonna be really high. As you can guess fans of old games are rea
879.
by SXX 3y ago
There is iOS port of VCMI: https://wiki.vcmi.eu/Installation_on_iOS It's actually works, but you need to manually sign, install IPA and upload game assets on your phone.
880.
by SXX 3y ago
VCMI engine is free and open source software licensed under GPLv2. Original game assets (music, sprites) are proprietary and you have to buy them in order to play. There actually Heroes 3 Mac demo that can be legally used as alternative sou
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by SXX 3y ago
They tried to take sustainable B2B middleware business and make new Google out of it. And they keep failing, but still paying exorbitant amounts to their execs. According to their SEC fillings their staff almost tripled in just 4 years >
882.
by SXX 3y ago
VCMI dont conflict with licenses because it's not reverse engineering effort, but engine created from scratch and licensed under GPL. Pretty much like OpenMW, OpenRA and other purely open source projects. Of course to play it you need
883.
by SXX 3y ago
Yeah you can switch to Pathfinder, but you wont just forget about D&D existence and there still gonna be tons of friends unaware of drama who prefer D&D. Like there is still tons of Star Wars fans who continue bring money to Disney
884.
by SXX 3y ago
It is not the same. D&D fans can of course shit on WotC and Hasbro, but they would still be D&D fans in the end of day even if changes were not reverted. Fans can't just go and become fans of "free and open source D&D&
885.
by SXX 3y ago
https://itch.io/games/platform-web/tag-godot
886.
by SXX 3y ago
In my opinion they intentionally keep it misleading. And fact that every once in a while someone posts about their project with "open source" in title is good proof that it does confuse a lot of people.
887.
by SXX 3y ago
It is literally in top menu bar. Leading to page that says that Defond is not actually open source.
888.
by SXX 3y ago
> due to open source licensing issues. It's have nothing to do with licensing. MIT License that Godot licensed under is perfectly fine for keeping console support closed-source or source-available. Problem is that Godot didn't
889.
by SXX 3y ago
They are free to run their business and we are free to point out how they distort meaning of "open source". They can easily call it "source available" and no one will bother them. There is actually open source game engin
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by SXX 3y ago
This is basically happen with almost every SaaS. They start with clean interface, performance while being used-friendly running by burning VC money to capture market. Then end up being user hostile products that locked in users to milk them
891.
by SXX 3y ago
> AMD maintains it but do we know how they are generated? Probably not. Basically those files are generated from AMD GPU register data files where majorify of registers are documented, but there of course bunch of magic numbers as well p
892.
by SXX 3y ago
While she is not a noname journalist I doubt many people from Russian anti-war community would recall her name before this investigation. There are few dozens of journalists and media figures well known in Russia opposition, but she was nev
893.
by SXX 3y ago
Yes it took them more than two decades to get there, but unfortunately it's not enough to just make good games to achieve kind of success Larian achieved. It's really takes a lot of work on financial and investor attraction side w
894.
by SXX 3y ago
They'll give out free rides for those willing to become content creators.
895.
by SXX 3y ago
You can also try to build something great and end up with a shitty product or just go bankrupt. AAA gamedev is not just about wanting to make a good game and caring - it's all about production pipeline and management. Larian grown to 4
896.
by SXX 3y ago
Like it or not, but Star Citizen delivered exactly what majority of whales who donated millions into it wanted: spaceship garage simulator. Some people were happy to pay for their space ship "NFTs".
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by SXX 3y ago
Problem is that you can't align work of art with "customer expectation" unless you funding book 9 of 10 in some series or someting like that. Your overall fantasy fans won't be able to explain what their expectations are
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by SXX 3y ago
Author bring crowdfunding of Divinity: Original Sin as a reason of Larian success, but truth is that ~$1,000,000 they collected is nowhere enough to make game like that. Though having this kind of investment from 20,000 fans can be enough o
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by SXX 3y ago
> Is there any reason to expect them to be as dystopian as you predict? Bill description on UK Parlament website: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2022/april/have-your... >The Bill
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by SXX 3y ago
At least founders team often can't be semi-global. A lot of VCs simply wouldn't bother working with you if some people on your board are not from US and it's even worse if someone live in some developing country. For them it&

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