Update from Rex Raphael aka Juicycleff #1049
Description
Project Update & Future Direction
Hello everyone,
First, I want to sincerely thank every contributor who has kept this package alive over the years. Life took a major turn for me—I got married and welcomed a baby—and as you can imagine, that significantly limited the time I could dedicate to maintaining my open-source projects. Despite that, this project has always been on my mind.
I’m fully aware of the outstanding issues. Through my work helping teams who could afford to bring me in, I spent a lot of time addressing real-world scalability challenges with Flutter and Unity. That experience led me to reimagine Flutter Unity Widget from the ground up.
Introducing Game Framework
Out of that work came Game Framework:
👉 https://github.com/xraph/gameframework
👉 https://gameframework.dev (WIP) just landing public now.
This is a re-designed, next-generation evolution of Flutter Unity Widget. However, I didn’t want to create another open-source project that risks becoming under-maintained. To avoid that, I involved several developers I’ve mentored, and together we designed a cloud offering around Game Framework.
The goal is simple:
- Reduce boilerplate and setup pain to just three CLI commands
- Provide pub.dev–compatible hosting for Unity exports
- Offer a production-ready workflow for shipping game framework projects
Beyond Unity
While Unity is the starting point, we’re not stopping there:
- Unreal Engine support is planned
- Support for another engine where we can modify the source is also in progress
- Much more is coming
I’m sharing this a bit early, but I’m genuinely excited about what’s ahead. The cloud platform’s dashboard and backend are already complete—what remains are some business and legal steps to formalize the team running it. An official announcement for the cloud offering is coming soon.
Open Source Commitment
- Game Framework will always remain open source
- The CLI source code and cloud registry will not be open sourced
- Flutter Unity Widget will remain available, but my primary focus and active development efforts are now fully on Game Framework
- Game Framework already supports Unity 6
Also most of my OSS activities now lives here https://github.com/xraph
Thank you again to everyone who has contributed, reported issues, and kept this project alive. I truly appreciate the community’s patience and support.
— XRAPH