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Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails (www.gamedeveloper.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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Summary by brave leo :

Unity continues to lay off employees with abrupt communications and 5am emails.
The company has laid off 25% of its workforce this fiscal year, costing $205 million.
Many former Unity employees report that they were not notified beforehand about their layoffs and only received a 5am email notification.
Unity has been criticized for its poor communication and treatment of employees during difficult times.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is there something to be worried about here with the Unreal Engine being the only big business in town in terms of indie game development for 3d game engines?

I mean obviously yes, but how worried should we be of this becoming a bottleneck?

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Godot has been making leaps and bounds. Obviously not close to UE, but if it maintains its rate of improvement, I can see it becoming a more and more common choice in the indie space over the next few years

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Godot has a great name, I gotta give it that. I was going to make a Beckett joke but then I realized that was just what it was named after lol.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Support open source engines!

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is unreal engine not an option for indie devs?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nah, it definitely is, in fact I have noticed a disconcerting number of indie games I REALLY like especially 3d games with physics engines are on the unreal engine.

I have always been a massive fan of at least the creative output of projects on the unreal engine, I don't know much about the politics and details around how it is to actually create games on the unreal engine or anything though. I just don't trust Epic honestly or whoever owns them now or rather I don't trust the incentive structure... but yeah I wish the unreal engine success I am just asking how people see the state of similar engines in this moment.