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2023: Alien Bugs Invade EarthNewsDevelopment delayed - Switching Away From Unity Engine
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Development delayed - Switching Away From Unity Engine

2023: Alien Bugs Invade Earth · published 20 Sep 2023, 16:18 UTC

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Because of Unity's decisions on a corporate level, the Unity game engine is no longer viable for developers of small indie games like me. Instead of risking this game's future on the future decisions of a few morally questionable corporate people at Unity, I've decided to migrate this game away from Unity sooner rather than later.

I can't let my efforts be at the mercy of some evil corporate giant that threatens to suck what little money I make from my efforts. (Especially considering how much money I've already given Unity to date)

This is a very unexpected necessity that will cause a lot of extra pain, work, and most importantly, delays in development.

Make no mistake: this game is not dead. It'll be well into 2024 before players see a new update (which was just 1-2 weeks away from releasing! arg!), but development will continue! We will see character animations! Voice acting! No more walls of text! More story! Motorcycles! Psionics! Black triangle spaceships! Space fights!

Just don't ask me how long it'll take before all of this finally comes out.

I'm truly sorry. I'll post another update once development gets back on its feet here.

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