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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 22:05:13 JST 翠星石

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   • Ténno Seremél’
   @tennoseremel >a lot of good and great games
   I would argue that if a game doesn't even respect your freedom, it doesn't qualify as "great".
   
   Unity is terrible, as every game built with Unity is automatically proprietary, even if a game developer doesn't particularly want to make a proprietary game.
   
   >and brought to Linux
   That kernel is really proprietary enough, we really didn't need more proprietary software.
   
   Godot is only one free software game engine - plenty more crossplatform engines exist.
   
   Many games are just C++, OpenGL and GLSL, meaning such could be released as free software and you could then just compile it for LiGNUx with a few fixes, but of course almost no game developer does that, even when its been 10 years and they've decided to abandon the game...
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     Ténno Seremél’ (tennoseremel@lor.sh)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 22:05:14 JST Ténno Seremél’

     Have mixed feelings on the whole Unity thing. Unity is kinda a polished turd, but a lot of good and great games where created and brought to Linux with it. There is Godot, but I wonder how many developers will jump towards a next Windows-only engine of the decade instead, whatever it might be.

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