EverNightX: I don't know of anything comprehensive. Off the top of my head I think Rayman Origins, Pathfinder, cuphead, Mimimi games (like Desperados III), and Solasta.

neumi5694: Here are some: House Party, Beat Saber, Death's Door, Pillars of Eternity, Superhot, Kerbal Space Program, Ghost of a Tale, Return Of The Obra Dinn, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, 99 Levels to Hell, FAR Lone Sails, My Friend Pedro

dtgreene: Do you have a better source for that news? One that doesn't auto-play video, and preferably one that's text-focused rather than video-focused?

idbeholdME: Not really sure what you mean. If it's ads that bother you, just use adblock or something like NewPipe on a phone. It's just a video talking about the latest features in version 5.3 with in-engine demonstrations.

If you want it in text form, here is their roadmap which briefly describes the new additions in 5.3:
https://portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-unreal-engine-public-roadmap/tabs/88-unreal-engine-5-3

Or if you want it all, here's the release notes:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/unreal-engine-5.3-release-notes/

Lexor: Well, I am not going to lie, this situation made me very very sad. :/

I would like to receive some personal guidance "what now?" for the game project I'm working on but I'm not sure if I should ask about it here (as it can be easily buried under other subject-related posts) or maybe posting separate topic will be much better idea.

amok: 5 - Games may be removed from player accounts.

amok: which gives you a key to unlick the full game.

rtcvb32: You've obviously never done programming before.

EverNightX: Why would it effect GOG any different than any other seller?

Lucian_Galca: Because a lot of games simply don't sell as much here as on Steam.

amok: 5 - Games may be removed from player accounts. The retroactive fees means that after January, sucessful indie games will be punished and we may see them removed before then.

clarry: So what do you think these files store if not textures or data? Why don't you look inside?

clarry: How did you arrive to the conclusion that they are storing empty unused space as opposed to textures, normals, audio, or whatever data?

clarry: ROFL!

AB2012: The correct way of publishers dealing with this is a class action lawsuit vs Unity with the goal of having the court declaring the combination of "charge per install, retroactive installs included" billing + lack of transparency in how Unity claim to be 'counting' them as an "unfair contract". Then they can just legally refuse to pay and Unity would have no choice but to go back to the drawing board.

neumi5694: Here are some: House Party, Beat Saber, Death's Door, Pillars of Eternity, Superhot, Kerbal Space Program, Ghost of a Tale, Return Of The Obra Dinn, Cuphead, Hollow Knight, 99 Levels to Hell, FAR Lone Sails, My Friend Pedro

Kalanyr: I suspect that they don't dial home during the GOG install process necessarily but at the point in time they write registry data ( or it's other OS equivalent ) for the first time because it records at least some pirate installs and those don't usually use an installer. So you'd probably have to block the Program executable or whatever DLL Unity uses to call home for each game

rtcvb32: Because building an engine is difficult. Kinda like asking to start a taxi service, but you don't want to buy a car for it, so just build it... go ahead, back yard, get to it....

I don't know about you, but writing using trigonometry to get 3D graphics, adding textures, as well as bounds checking, writing your own interrupts to handle sound and music, then attaching that to work with Vulcan DirectX and OpenGL, then on top of that making a game to go with it, aka sounds, music, models, animations, and then the core logic, AI reactions, etc. And if you really want to build from scratch, write your own compiler and own language(s) to go with it, and your own libraries and toolkits.

These common 'engines' are at this point considered part of 'the wheel' i would think at this point. They say don't reinvent the wheel. Even in the mid 90's there were software packages including 80% of basically the DOOM engine to get your started to make your own FPS games.

edit: You know i'd agree with you if it was back in the MS-DOS days. You didn't need special hardware drivers to switch to graphics modes, or anything to handle timing. It literally set a few registers, call specific interrupt, the BIOS would take over and switch graphics, then you are given an address (B0000-CFFFF if i remember right) and you write your pixels onto the screen memory buffer and it would automatically copy to the screen on the next refresh. You set a timer to go off on a counter which would be your timer, which at it's slowest was like 16hz (i'd have to check).

Most models like in Mechwarrior likely had mech models with like 30-40 polygons, and checking if a hit had to be considered was just a box around the mech before getting into more detailed checks. And you could forego or include some textures and it wasn't a big deal.

I think you seriously underestimate what is needed just to get the framework working, before actually working on a game. And if you have to spend 1-2 years building an engine before you start on your game, you likely will get burned out LONG before you finish it.