I would prefer developers start to look to FOSS engines such as Godot; Panda3D; etc but I guess Unreal is a better choice than Unity since it is at least open source.

Last edited by PublicNuisance on 7 February 2022 at 3:48 pm UTC

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI would prefer developers start to look to FOSS engines such as Godot; Panda3D; etc but I guess Unreal is a better choice than Unity since it is at least open source.

Visible source, but not really open.

I think we mean the same thing but use different wording. It's why I emphasized that it wasn't a FOSS engine. To me FOSS is not only having access to the source code but the freedom to use it; redistribute it; fork it; etc where open source is just being able to view the code.

Quoting: PublicNuisanceI think we mean the same thing but use different wording. It's why I emphasized that it wasn't a FOSS engine. To me FOSS is not only having access to the source code but the freedom to use it; redistribute it; fork it; etc where open source is just being able to view the code.

There's actually a very clear definition on what constitutes Open Source:
https://opensource.org/docs/osd

(Also, FLOSS = Free Libre Open Source)

Ok maybe it's not 100% open source but at least you can see and compile the code of the engine and in my case make changes (yes i changed the code a little for some games reasons and compiled all the engine again), but remember i was using it on windoze, first, i passed form that OS to ubuntu and i think people (the idie game developers) can learn something of the transition, was not easy, i already used linux for only servers but never imagine the power of compiling graphics apps over it, and develop 3D content, is stuning the results achieved, i think that maybe someone could make a distro focused on 3D development with tootls like blender, unreal engine, gimp and so many others i dont remember right now, for me was a little hard but now i feel cant go back, regards .

Just being able to make a game fully on Linux without chewing through your desk in frustration is a viable and worthy goal in and of itself.

Making one using exclusively oss is a mountain I wouldn’t wish to climb just yet.

Last edited by damarrin on 8 February 2022 at 9:56 am UTC