Promising fan project ‘Pocket Fighter EX’ cancelled ‘because Unity betrayed its developers’

If you are a fan of the Capcom vs SNK spin-off series, so you may have heard of it Pocket Fighter EX.

An unofficial homage based on the Neo Geo Pocket title Match of the Millennium built using Unity, this was the work of a single person – MarcDWyz – and I saw characters from Street Fighter and King of Fighters fighting each other.

An initial version of the game was released in 2018 for Windows PCs, but we have now learned from MarcDWyz that the project has been cancelled.

“I will never go back to the Unity engine after what they did,” the developer said on social media when asked why the game was canceled. “I would have to start all over again. Before I could even do that, I would have to redevelop my vast 2D framework AND restore the netcode to another engine.”

When asked to elaborate, MarcDWyz replied:

Unity Engine tracks players with spyware in every game made with it to extort funds from developers. They changed the rules overnight and went after EVERY game made with Unity, past and present. I won’t let them do that to me, or you. I stopped using it.

MarcDWyz explains that he is currently learning how to use Unreal Engine and is creating a 2D framework for it in his latest project, Mega Man: Masters of Space.