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This week has to be Christmas for people who developed an engine not named Unity.

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Love2D has been there forever. It's not a replacement for Unity.

The only open source project that remotely resembles Unity is Godot.

I forgot Stride: https://www.stride3d.net

It was not completely open source, but it is now (if I didn't read it wrong).

Well, a lot of what people make with Unity could be done perfectly well with Löve. It's not intended to replace the Unity target public, but Unity is used well beyond its target public.

Huh thanks that explains the game engine influx.

For those who missed it like me, Unity raised prices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344

... and added costs where there were none: $0.20 per install

https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updat...

I'm a big fan of love2d, but for _almost everyone_ it's not a replacement for unity.

Looking at https://steamdb.info/tech/Engine/Love2D/, there's only two games on that list that (based on steamspy numbers) that would actually be affected by the recent pricing changes.

If you're objecting to Unity on moral grounds for it's new DRM philosophies, or it's CEO, well those were just as valid almost 10 years ago.

Yeah. I've had fun with Love2D but it's not even an engine, really. It mostly just wraps SDL functions (and a few other libraries). If that fits your use case exactly, go for it! But if you're looking for the FOSS equivalent of Unity, Godot is pretty much exactly that.

Except most of them are not focused on C#, have console support and tier 1 from all vendors in the games industry.

Yea on the indie discords, people are massively unhappy. But there is no alternative right now.

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