Dissatisfied with the donation of 200000 dollars to the open source engine by the developers of Unity Talaria

In protest Disputed changes in fees related to Unity game engine, popular games《 Terraria 》Developer of Re Logic plans to donate to two open source game engines 100000 dollars, and further donations will be made every month in the future.

In a statement released on Twitter (X), the studio said: "The Re Logic team has been following with interest and sadness An event that occurred in Untiy. The previously industry-leading and user-friendly game engine has been taken away by the dark forces, which has had a great negative impact on the game industry. At best, this makes us feel depressed. Although we don't use Untiy (except some elements of the host/mobile platform), we think we can't stand by, because these predatory actions will affect game studios around the world. "

The studio also condemned the recent move by Unity to charge developers "runtime fees" based on the number of downloads and installations by users. The studio said: "We clearly condemn and reject the recent changes in terms of service/fees proposed by Unity, as well as the introduction of improper strategies."

"The saddest thing is, Unity The most tragic part is that the trust cultivated over the years has been abandoned and squeezed developers, studios and game players in another way. This action is totally unnecessary, turning everything into a tragedy - this is a warning that the industry will not forget soon. "

The studio said that it would donate 100000 US dollars each to Godot and FNA, the open source game development engine, and would donate 1000 US dollars each month to the developers of the two engines, and the donation seemed to last forever. As one of the most successful independent games in history, Terraria seems to have a deep pocket.

Both Godot and FNA are fully open source engines developed by the developer community. Among them, Godot is the mainstream choice that many independent developers turn to. While it natively supports the Python language variant GDscript, it can now support the C # and C++languages that Unity developers are accustomed to, and it also has multi platform support. Although porting is more troublesome than Unity, the games produced by developers will be completely owned by them. Modifications to the engine itself allow it to do what many developers want. Sonic Colorful: The Ultimate Edition was produced using the modified Godot engine.

On the other hand, FNA It is the reconstruction of Microsoft's XNA Game Studio 4.0 Refresh library, developed by game developer Ethan Lee, which also supports multiple platforms. This engine was used to produce the previous 2D soul action game Salt and Shelter.

Although Unity made a backward step and apologized for the "installation fee" decision, according to Bloomberg News, they are not ready to completely cancel the plan of collecting the "installation fee", but only set some restrictions for it, such as the ceiling of 4% of the total lifetime income of the game. Moreover, even if Unity completely cancels this plan now, it will be a disaster. This company has completely lost the trust of developers.