Privilege of Ubiquity

STALLED ENGINE: Creators of the popular game engine, Unity, made some disquieting news this week when it announced some changes to its licensing policy for developers. Andrew and D. Bethel do their best to break down the changes and examine some of the response from developers.

TOPICS:

(00:00) Intro - 2023 a pretty good year for video games?

(02:10) The Unity debacle

(28:19) Outro - Dan bought a PS5 and is only playing old games

(32:23) Outtakes

RELEVANT LINKS:

• Sinclair, Brendan. "Unity Adding a Fee for Each Time a Game Is Installed." Games Industry.biz, Gamer Network Limited, 12 September 2023.

RELEVANT EPISODES:

• "Fair Point, Dude" (1 June 2018): Where Andrew discusses his dabblings with game development in the Unity engine.
• "An Optimistic Dystopia" (12 August 2022): Where D. Bethel shares his thoughts on his initial playthrough of Stray.

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