Quoting: elmapul"Again though, this only highlights some of the dangers of using proprietary game engines for your projects. "

unreal engine is kind off open source...
i'm not sure about their licence but the code is

Source code being available is not really sufficient at all for this sort of thing and yeah UE4 licensing terms are very far from open source or free software. id Tech 4 is open source, Godot is open source. A bu ch of engines are open source. But none of the major ones(UE4, Unity, CryEngine, Lumberyard, Source, etc) are.

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Quoting: TheRiddickWell they do provide you with the full source code.

True enough, but not on terms that comply with the free software definition [External Link] or the open source definition [External Link]. Hence Lumberyard's EULA is not on OSI's list of approved licenses [External Link] or the FSF's list of free software licenses [External Link].

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No Lumberyard is not open source or free software. It is just royalty free.

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Unity has a response up on their blog: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/01/10/our-response-to-improbables-blog-post-and-why-you-can-keep-working-on-your-spatialos-game/ [External Link]

In the comments section, their community team also writes the following: "We believe that Improbable has traded and continues to improperly trade on Unity’s engineering effort, goodwill, and reputation by using Unity’s technology and branding in a product that Improbable markets as a game development platform. While Unity is committed to enabling the continued success of customers that develop games using the Unity Engine, Unity will not tolerate Improbable’s improper actions."

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BSD is not Linux "at the heart of it". Where would you get such an idea?

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CD Projekt RED are looking for DX programmers for Cyberpunk 2077 so Vulkan is not likely: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED/743999681547993-graphics-programmer [External Link]

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Where do they mention Linux first? Not under "Multi-Platform Editor" or "Multi-Platform Deploy" here: https://godotengine.org/features [External Link]

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I am definetly looking forward to the full release of Ion Maiden. It gets a lot of things right that many modern games don't and it is based on Eduke32 and the Voidpoint team consists of community members.

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Quoting: KristianThat is true enough. But if all the games leave Steam for Epic's store, Steam won't continue to have "the most users".

Steam users have game libraries built over years, they aren't going to drop steam just because there's a better deal or a cool exclusive game in the other store. Steam can lose some player-hours but certainly not users.

People continuing to use Steam to play their current games matters little to Valve's(and similarly GOG's etc) financial situation if people cease buying new games since there are no longer any new games being released because developers and publishers stop releasing them since they want 88% instead of 70%.

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Quoting: KristianThe thing that could be worrying would developers abandoning Stean(and GOG etc) due to Epic's 12% cut. If few or no new releases appear on Steam they are in trouble.

If Epic's store becomes dominant and it doesn't support Linux thatvwould be bad for the Linux marketshare.

It's not easy to ignore Steam, as they stll have the most users, but I think Valve has to reduce their cut in the long run, to avoid slow price induced erosion.

That is true enough. But if all the games leave Steam for Epic's store, Steam won't continue to have "the most users", since the users will leave with the games.

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