1y ago

Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity

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Unity's Runtime Fee debacle cost it the trust of several indie developers, and led to Slay the Spire 2 being made in Godot.

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1y ago

Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity

www.gamedeveloper.com /business/slay-the-spire-devs-followed-through-on-abandoning-unity

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1y ago

Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity

www.gamedeveloper.com /business/slay-the-spire-devs-followed-through-on-abandoning-unity

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Good for them. Respect++.
- @surely_not_a_bot will remember that
I've got to imagine Epic is pretty pissed at Unity right now. Both had a pretty sweet gig "competing" against each other.
But since Unity's brain-dead maneuver, we suddenly have a foss alternative to both, and they might actually have to innovate now.
- As much as I like to shit on Epic, but UE 5.x is pretty much innovative with each minor release. Watching the release videos of what the engine can do in realtime is always impressive. They are used as realtime backgrounds for movie sets.
  
  Unreal 5 is… unreal.
  
  I think it's funny you try to show how good the game engine is by saying it's used in movies. Like sure it's impressive, but graphics don't make a game. Give me one good game with simple graphics built in Godot, rather than 100 fancy locking $80 micro-transaction infested always online games.
- Yes but at the same time Unreal doesn't really compete with Unity at all when it comes to 2D games. Unreal is primarily meant for 3D games and maybe you could make a 2D one work in it but Unity has a lot more resources for 2D games. That's why games like this switched to Godot instead of Unreal cause Unreal wasn't really an option. I could be wrong but when Ive made some projects in Unreal it didn't really seem to have any options for 2D games like Unity has.
  
  It's got all of the functionality you need but nothing in UE is "boilerplate" for 2D, meaning they don't have the functions built for you to use out of the box. Godot has all the boilerplate for a complete novice to use after a few tutorials videos. Haven't used Unity for maybe a decade so idk about them.
- Unity wasn't innovating but I think it's unfair to say that epic were not.
  Part of the problem is that Unity don't actually use their own engine.
- Considering Epic is funding Godot iirc, I'm sure they're more than happy with their competitor shooting themselves in the foot.
  
  No mention of Epic in Godot's transparency report.
Unity HQ be like
- I hecking love working with Godot btw, nothing is perfect but man is it glorious shiny FOSS and extremely usable!
  
  And it’s going to get so much better with more people flocking to it!
  
  What I love most about Godot is that it doesn't give a fuck whether you want to use python-like code or write your own libraries in C#/C++. 10 minutes and you've got something working.
- Whoa whoa whoa. Thats some dangerous words. Slay the Spire is highly addictive.
  
  I just bought it for my phone a couple days ago, and it sucked up my weekend.
  Just one more game!
Godot is awesome. I hope all the attention that has been spewed upon them thanks to Unity's fuck up doesn't spoil it.
I had to delete this game from my phone cause I couldn’t stop playing it…
- Don't get Balatro.
  
  Help. I am addicted to Gambling
  
  Not in iPhone yet luckily!
Doesn't STS run on Java, not Unity?
- StS2 was being developed in Unity iirc, and they moved to Godot for that new game (and possibly also future games?).
- Don't know what engine they used for STS, but apparently they were making STS 2 on Unity:
  At the time, it said it'd made much of Slay the Spire II in Unity, but would still migrate to a different engine if Unity stuck to its guns.
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  Great website.
  
  libgdx
  Which is a game dev library for Java, so OP was right.
- From the article:
  At the time, it said it'd made much of Slay the Spire II in Unity, but would still migrate to a different engine if Unity stuck to its guns.
- Perhaps they were saying they started on unity and decided to migrate to Godot instead
Another jewel in Godot's crown. Love to see it
Perfect.
Of course they did. Godot is a freaking dream for most game genres.

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