Ask HN: Will games made in Unity3d be playable in 10/20 years?

Posted by DaveSapien on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:39AM
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A question for my fellow #gamedevs. Thinking 10, 20, 30 years into the future. How big a danger is it that games made in #unity3d will go the same way as games made in Flash? (Meaning not impossible to play them now, but a pain todo so). Thoughts?

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Re:Ask HN: Will games made in Unity3d be playable in 10/20 y... by quirkafleeg3 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:47AM (#21593208)

Seems very unlikely that they will be unplayable. Built Unity games are just .exe files, where flash games are in a format that requires flash to run. In other words, unless the format of standard executable files changes, unity games will still be playable.

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Re:Ask HN: Will games made in Unity3d be playable in 10/20 y... by DaveSapien on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:57AM (#21593568)

Until there is an 128bit cpu architecture and I cant republish because Unity has went out of business or there is a change in there licensing agreement...

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