One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

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    -31 year ago

    But the code is easily visible and you can compile it yourself. If you say “I only run software I 100% knows what it does because I can read it’s source code” then Unreal Engine fits, it’s open source.

    • @rbits@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That’s not why people want an open source game engine though, they want it to be open source so that they can’t do a unity

      I agree the phrase “open source” is a bit confusing

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        01 year ago

        they want it to be open source so that they can’t do a unity

        That has nothing to do with open source, that has to to with licensing, which I’m pretty sure isn’t an issue anyway since I think Unreal versions are tied to specific license versions, i.e. if you download the engine under one term, thats the only one you have to use