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Unity (former game engine company) has merged with an actual adware and malware distribution company. That's not an exaggeration. Fake Flash installers, was blacklisted by Microsoft's anti-malware tool, VirusTotal entires, that kind of thing. https://blog.infostruction.com/2018/10/26/adware-empire-ironsource-and-installcore/ https://www.benedelman.org/news-021815/ Don't build your games on engines you don't have the source code to. 41 comments
 
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
@cancel  
touch fluffy tail
damn if only someone had warned us about the dangers of proprietary software
imagine how different things could have been 
gif in displayname :bop_cat:
@cancel hilarious, this company is like a ship hitting an iceberg over and over again for ten years. VC will fuck up your brain 
Be
@cancel "What if that process was no longer "first create; then monetize?” What if creators had an engine for live games that by default enabled them to gain early indicators of success for their games through user acquisition of their prototype, and gave them a feedback loop to improve their games based on real player interactions as early in the process as possible?" Imagine if we got rid of anything resembling joy or art from the process and refined it into pure capitalism! 
Aks :kde: :fedora:
@cancel Unfortunately I am vendor locked with one of my titles. As solo hobbyist dev i just dont have the time/money to get all the assets separately, so I've relied on unity bundles a lot. I could perhaps ask the asset creators (mostly 3d models) if I am allowed to use them outside of unity. Another thing is that as much as I hate this, learning new engine comes with a cost: time. I will have to see how this develops over time, i dont have high hopes tho..
Aks :kde: :fedora:
@cancel What I am worried most is that if unity games will be bundled with some malicious crapware with them now. And I really dont want that to anyone who plays my games. If that's what happens, I believe learning new engine is going to be good idea. That being said, I am going to use Godot in future for other projects. This current unity project though, it's something i want to really make correct and pour all my knowledge in.
Aks :kde: :fedora:
@cancel Last bit of ramble: I believe the ad-crap is mostly focused on mobile and web games however. That's where it's mostly used after all.
𝓑Ⓡ𝐚η𝔡Ⓞ𝓷 :autism:
@cancel Anyone looking for alternatives might find this helpful: https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools This is a big list of FOSS creative tools that I've been contributing to. There's a ton on it and it's still growing. There's even a Game Dev section with lots of resources (I have a couple minor additions to put up later today, as well). @hazelnot: GDevelop is an awesome engine to start with. It's like GameMaker, but free and open source with lots of cool features.
Haunted Owlbear
@cancel this is so absolutely status quo for online ad services firms that I'm barely even surprised
Snappy/DM me the word 'bread'
@cancel Valve's Source engine is the way to go when it comes to making video game.
Dizzy H. Slightly Voided
.@cancel Me: "Hm, I'm thinking of trying to get back into Unity3D --" (this happens) "-- No I'm not."  
翠星石
@cancel It's nice for you to call out proprietary malware, but care to explain about this proprietary malware that you yourself rent out?: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
You seem to offer the source code under a proprietary license, but after all, there's nothing stopping you from potentially stripping out possible malicious features built in and it'll be hard to tell that you did so.  |
Gregory's Server
... if you can avoid it. Pico-8, GameMaker (though they're on some crappy subscription thing now), etc. are all OK for making smaller games. If you're going to invest many months or years of your life into some long-running project, maybe consider Unreal or Godot, instead.