New Xenko Game Engine - Uses C# and Free Open Source

Good, good. Maybe soon UT will give me that official position. I think so far I've only had 1 or 2 admin laughs.

 

Yep...

Everyone, stare at the front page and wait for a Unity Comedy Show to appear...

 

Wouldn't miss that.

 

and then suddenly I'll get a stuck in a big job at work and disappear from the forums for months D:

 

NOOOO!!!

(On second thought, Hippocoder will be going "Yes... No more of that for a while!")

 

Too bad they have the same subscription prices as Unity, but this is really overpriced
https://store-dev.xenko.com/get-xenko
Because they lack many other features you can find in Unity Personnal and (terrain system, lightmapper , plugins etc ...) and the support team is too small to get faster bug fixes or new features.
At least the Free version have a black theme editor lol

 

The biggest challenge for this engine to make any headway will not be 'having some features better than Unity' and being 'nicer to work with'...

These are the real challenges...

• Having a large, knowledgeable, supportive community
• Having a knowledge base of posts across the internet, with people documenting fixes for a multitude of issues
• Is the engine proven in the real world across platforms and devices?
• SDK support for the engine. How many 3rd party SDK's actually support this engine?

These are the kinds of questions developers need to ask before jumping ship, and ask themselves, is it worth investing the time into it?

Unity has had a 10 year head start (after releasing their beta), and is very established in all the above aspects.

Also, charging $75 US a month for their first tier, comparable to Unity's Plus tier, which devs can get for $35 US a month is not a great way to gain loyal followers, they need to rethink their pricing strategy if they want to pull away and compete with Unity users.

 

this is becoming a trend now
https://doc.xenko.com/latest/en/manual/xenko-for-unity-developers/index.html

 

They just need to hire hippo to make it all better again.

 

Reminds me of "Unreal for unity developers" article:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/FromUnity/

 

Exactly. . . . now we just need to wait from CE or LY to do the same

 

I had to use that. When fiddling with Unreal for uni. Still doesn't change the fact that Unreal engine is fundamentally different.
Anyway, not the topic so I'll shut mah mouth now haha

 

It looks like no one was interested to pay 75$ per month for low updates , almost no support , and empty community
https://xenko.com/blog/changes-to-the-xenko-license/

 

Godot simply destroyed them.

 

Nope this is not the reason lol