The Chinese Room's interactive storytelling experiment Dear Esther is getting rebuilt - again - in a new engine.
Environment artist Robert Briscoe revealed the news on his blog, explaining that he's been working on a Unity build for the past few months after running into countless issues with Source during the outsourced development of the Linux and Mac ports. Due to licensing problems and huge middleware bills, the team could not continue to support the ports once the contractors' terms had finished.
Briscoe says that all the drama left him feeling "anxious, not just about the possibility of further ports, but about the future of Dear Esther in the years to come."
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