Collective letter to unity from game development companies
homagames.com
homagames.com
And I see a lot of Connect 4, Farmville Idle type games on their websites with lots of suspicious marketing and premium features. Homa Games even has a rather blatant Donut County clone.
...I get it, mobile devs gotta develop for the market, and maybe I'm missing some of their gems. But when they say things like:
> ...we’ve invested years in shaping an industry that touches the lives of millions worldwide...
> ...it has inspired us to create new immersive worlds...
It feels a bit disingenuous, like they are trying to come of as struggling indie masterpiece devs. I would feel much more sympathetic if I saw, say, Mobius Digital in there.
Unity does this too, and it bothers me even more.
What gives you the right to claim that you speak for me?
>Sincerely,
>Homa, Azur Games, Voodoo, Century Games, SayGames, CrazyLabs, Original Games, Ducky, Burny Games, Inspired Square, Geisha Tokyo, tatsumaki games, New Story, Playgendary, Supercent, KAYAC,
>and all who sign this letter, engage in other forms of protest, or simply stand in solidarity with the gaming industry
But organising people is _hard_ and so we tend to give up a lot of control for a little convenience. Unity can pull the rug at any time, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. However, if 1000s of independent game developers had a share in a similar company whose constitution dictated that it was for the benefit of those independent game developers, and they could vote out directors that allowed it to deviate from that purpose, then this scenario we're seeing today would be a lot less likely.
Anything new since? /s