According to GameDeveloper.com: Unity's much-derided Runtime Fee is receiving a massive rework almost two weeks after its disastrous debut. In an open letter posted on the Unity blog, the company formally apologized for the chaos sowed since the announcement and revealed massive changes to the policy in response to a week of negative feedback from the game development community. The Unity Runtime Fee will no longer apply to games built on Unity Personal. Developers on said plan will also be able to now earn up to $200,000 in revenue according to the terms of service. Those developers will also no longer be required to use the "Made with Unity" splash screen. For developers on the Pro and Enterprise plans, the Runtime Fee will only take effect beginning with the next LTS version of Unity arriving in 2024. Games made on the current or prior versions of Unity will not be included, unless they are upgraded to the next version of Unity. Games subject to the Runtime Fee will have the option to either be subject to a 2.5 percent revenue share or a calculated fee based on "the number of new people engaging with your game each month." Unity says revenue and "new people" (phrased elsewhere as "initial engagements") can both be reported by developers, who will "always be billed for the lesser amount." No game with less than $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be subject to the fee. This is a massive shift from the previous plan, which promised to charge developers anywhere from $.001 to $.20 each time their game was installed. Those rates would vary based on which Unity plan a developer subscribed to and how many installs over a certain threshold their game achieved, and would be charged for all games made in Unity, even ones made on prior versions of the terms of service (though the company would only start counting installations after January 1, 2024). Does this change your opinion on Unity? Or has the bridge already been burned? Link to the Article

Nintendo privately demos Nintendo Switch 2 at Gamescom 2023

Vine-gar · 2023-09-07T18:44:49+00:00

After years of uncertainty about Nintendo's new console, an island of truth about the Switch's successor has emerged from the fog. VGC and Eurogamer have independently confirmed that, "Nintendo privately showed invited developers specially...

Havok Free in May

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http://kotaku.com/359091/havok-goes-free-in-may

The awesome physics engine Havok will become free in May, for non-commercial use.

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