The Unity meltdown sucks for students and educators, too
Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Unity's controversial new fee system has developers, as well as teachers and students, thinking about dropping the engine.
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Game Developer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Unity's controversial new fee system has developers, as well as teachers and students, thinking about dropping the engine.
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Remember to add shadows and highlights, to each layer, and then, merge the layers, before exporting the file and bringing it into the game engine. You don't want dozens of layers in the game engine, in each scene, or it will make the PC or console process the levels too slowly and may even make the game crash. See you next blog!
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Mircosoft Game Dev
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The engine isn't popular yet in Japan. Almost no one had ever heard about the engine besides the event's organizers. The educational resources are not on par yet and switching engines is an involved job. I met a few professional translators who already like the engine. It went well, but.I
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The event is used for conferences (educational mostly), business, mixers, award ceremonies (IGF), technology showcases and partying hard with fellow developers. Developers and companies are enthusiastic and amazed when we show them Godot, the games that the community is making, the maturity of the engine, etc. No one knows about Godot.
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