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No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal (www.pocketgamer.biz)
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AppLovin’s attempts to acquire Unity last year turned sour when Unity opted for a merger with rivals ironSource instead . Now, in the ongoing shockwave of Unity's unpopular introductio...

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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's because both Unity and Godot use C# while Unreal uses C++ for development. It is much easier to move from Unity to Godot since they use the same language for development. Moving to Unreal basically means starting over.

[–] sirspate@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I mean, UnrealCLR exists

[–] jayrhacker@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Godot has it's own scripting language (hence the prompt converting all the C#/JS code from Unity).

Unreal is C++ but it's also another commercial proprietary engine, so they could rug-pull in the same way.

[–] zik@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Godot supports C# as well as its native python-like GDscript.