Craigp

Craigp, 9 months ago to random

We have the phrase "tilting at windmills" from Don Quixote, a book about a man caught up in stories of the past. He decides to be a knight and goes around "defending" the people from evils such as that "dragon" he sees on top of the hill. A windmill.

What's the phrase for a politician catering to Don Quixote, who points at a windmill, calls it a dragon, and gives his cousin $8,000,000,000 to build a tank to blow it up to "protect the children"?

glassbottommeg, 9 months ago to random

Huh, so Unity has reached the killing-the-golden-goose point of their enshittification: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-to-start-charging-fee-pegged-to-game-installs

20c per install doesn't sound like much to PC users, but that's potentially enough to nuke mobile gaming entirely. Which they know, because they also run the stats system mobile devs use to calculate ARPU/ARPPU.

Unreal taking a small cut of revenue works fine. That's based on you know, money you made.

Unity charging based on "Installs" might actually cost you money in mobile space. Or if you do a PS+ freebie. Or GamePass. Or especially an EpicStore freebie. They know what they're doing, and it's fucking evil.

EDIT: holy shit it's per month (it's listed under "monthly")

#GameDev #Unity3D

Craigp, 10 months ago to random

Am I the only person who simply closes the tab when pieces start moving around and adjusting themselves after load?

Like going to a Steam game, looking for the text blurb- oh, oh, it's slipping down the page, ha ha ha, how fun! There's a stream of it playing RIGHT NOW and that's obviously way more important than the thing we showed you and you're interested in-

Close tab.