Unity introducing new fee attached to game installs(www.gamedeveloper.com)

It essentially allows for special closed source builds. These closed source builds can have the engine support for consoles and still be in keeping with Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo’s licenses.

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TwilightVulpine@kbin.social

8 points

1 year ago

I didn’t know that. How do the developers get access to these builds? Are they sold? Or do they need to build it themselves?

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520@kbin.social

10 points

1 year ago

So, basically the console manufacturer gives you the SDK, integration code, etc after you sign their NDAs. After that, you can either use what they gave you to port it yourself to that console, or you can pay someone else for their build.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.2/tutorials/platform/consoles.html

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taanegl@beehaw.org

12 points

1 year ago

This, right here.

Hey EU. How about lowering that barrier to entry by pumping a couple of million Euro’s into cold-room reverse engineering the API’s and developing an open source alternative that can be distributed freely.

We’ll invite Sony lawyers, Microsoft lawyers, watch them cope and seethe as their framework is made more open…

…aaaand then realising that a lot more people will take the shot to pay for actual licensing. Go figure.

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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz

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1 year ago

You’re still going to need them to sign your binary for the console to recognize it as legit.

Circumventing the official path worked back in the 80s and 90s, but modern consoles and their SDKs were designed with those lessons in mind.

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