Despite reports last week that suggested the Unity game engine was courting potential buyers, the company has no plan to sell the engine, according to a post on the Unity forums by one of the company's co-founders.
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According to the forums post (found over at Gamasutra), Unity co-founder and chief technology officer Joachim Ante posted that selling the Unity engine would be counter to what the company is all about: providing smaller game developers with accessible tools to help compete with established companies.
"Sometimes when we talk to our partners, discussions turn to talk of acquisition," Ante posted. "Our response has always been that for Unity it is best to be an independent company. This has been true for the last 10 years, it is equally true today."
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The Unity engine has become a new standard for independent game development over the last several years. By offering powerful tools and multiplatform support, Unity has let startup game developers create games without spending a huge amount of time or resources porting it to various consoles. The company even offers a free version of Unity to developers that pull in less than $100k each year, making comprehensive development software accessible to even more people.
The original report said that a presentation pitching Unity to buyers had been making its way around to big corporate players, including Google. It also reported that Unity had been in at least one serious talk with a potential buyer.
