Professional game makers care very much about how Unity operates as a business these days.
Absolutely, it’s a flashy demo, but it’s hard to overlook Unity’s recent controversies. Trust takes a while to rebuild, especially when business practices are involved. On the other hand, if Unity 6 can really streamline workflows and deliver on performance, devs might give it another shot. Guess it’s a wait-and-see situation, right?
Never forget, every Unity demo we’ve seen has a ton of custom tools. For example, in “The Book of the Dead” they had all these custom tools, even some obscure AO tech for trees that didn’t work when I downloaded it. I remember complaining about it on their forums. Unlike Unreal, Unity’s never really “what you see is what you get”. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the short film, but Unity has always been like that, kind of “faking” the real capabilities of the engine. From an investor’s point of view, though, I guess it’s good marketing.
Someone (@kratos_1335) in YouTube’s comments.
not until they’ve unionized ✊
I am not in the position to decide which tech we use at the studio, however, as a Senior my voice is certainly heard when it comes to tech decisions.
And for Unity I can only say: No tech is worth the risk of dealing with such a shady company.
Well said, though I’d love to know how you managed to promote to senior. I’m stuck in the leadup to that promotion.
Oh, that just happened. We didn’t have established processes for promotions for a very long time. The company was a tiny startup when I joined (quite literally in the cellar of the company founder’s place), with a really flat hierarchy and no distinction in seniority.
At the point when the company started to set up a formal process for promotions, I had already been there for so long, that I was considered one of the most experienced people, and that’s how I ended up being filed under “senior coders” in the employee list basically since that category existed… It also was a bit weird, as that happened to coincide with all the COVID lockdown chaos, and I never had a formal promotion talk, just an email with an amandment to my contract, which I didn’t even read too carefully, so I didn’t realize at first that this was not just the yearly pay increase 😉.
Oh, and believe me, the impostor syndrome is strong with me. I would not have promoted me to that role.
I’m in a megafirm you’ve probably heard of, but I’ve been in this role for my third and fourth YoE, so I’m wondering how long it should take me to get to mid-level/senior.
No, the cutscene looks great but I want to make games, not movies with it.
