I'm intrigued that the 11th highest current player count on steam has native linux support and open sourced their engine?
They provide sample files too, I'm not saying they have bad motivations in any way, I'm just curious as to why they decided to do this now. Either way I applaud it!
I can guess that Gaijin Entertainment had some contracts with companies in Russia, but after moving their business out of Russia it's now easiest way to fulfill the terms of some IP licensing deal.
Yandex is doing the same thing, but other way around by releasing more and more of their code as open source. It let them to cleanly trasfer IP from Russia-poisoned company to their Israel company.
And you can also transfer bunch of other currencies much much cheaper. It's mostly question on whatever you have paperwork for bank outside of Russia to accept that payment.
PS: Only normal people are affected by those restrictions. Companies and super-rich cronies can still move their money freely and pay for whatever military components they want from EU / US:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vkontakte....
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vk-social-network-messenger/id...
https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=34596
From legal standpoint 99.9% of game development companies originated from Russia never held any IP within the country legal framework to begin with. It was a rule of a thumb of doing any IT business: register everything on Cyprus or in other functioning country. Usually regional office is only received money from holding company to pay for ads, pay salaries and minimal taxes.
So unlike giants like Yandex they were never under Kremlin direct control and could withdraw out of country rapidly without any losses.
For game development companies like Gajin it was always just one of the markets even if important one.
That sounds really offensive, and not to the companies.
It does, a game or two of Warthunder are my guilty pleasure while waiting for some CI pipelines to finish.
//
// Dagor Engine 6.5
// Copyright (C) 2023 Gaijin Games KFT. All rights reserved
// (for conditions of use see prog/license.txt)
//
Also seems unlikely there would be active work if this was an old version of the engine, and a lot changed between the 2023-09-15 import and the 2023-10-22 update.
At previous companies where we developed a game engine at the same time as the game we were building it for; after releasing the 4th game on that engine it still had the binaries named the codename of the original first game.
So, renaming things can be hard or overlooked.
This is a bid for that piece of government sponsorship.
The recursive acronym name was chosen first and foremost because it's funny, but also to make the point that it's not emulating all of Windows, and definitely isn't something like dosbox or Dolphin in terms of implementation strategy. This is true, but we shouldn't allow it to break our language, no matter how much we love the clever meme!