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Completely agree! Unfortunately this is the Unity MO. A tool that's a bit half baked. They have been doing a hell of a lot better lately though.

Unity native files are still pretty much a nightmare to merge. With that said I find it's not too hard to break things up in a way that multiple people can work on separate pieces …

Unity video player leaves a lot to be desired. The standout option for a more elaborate video handling was typically AVPro. It's a really good option, with that said with vlc stepp…

Man I do ponder this all the time.

Isn't this what git lfs is effectively?

Indie dev here. Making games is hard it is one of the few spots in software where all disciples have to come together to make something compelling. I've done a lot of programming o…

Article was good.

This is kind of profound.

Would love to know what industry you ended up in. Daydreaming about working with my hands out and about one day lol.

A rare show of vulnerability on hackernews. I commend you and echo the sentiment! I really appreciate you sharing your story. Know that it does not define you and you are absolutel…

As a game developer who's primary tool I utilize is Unity I always find outside sentiment about it funny. There's no doubt that Unity has put its users through the ringer over the …

Yeah these were my thoughts exactly.

I 100% agree. It's funny to me that for a website that's focused on people and companies creating new things, people here can be extremely hostile and jaded to the idea. The pessim…

Just want to second this. I've been using unity for almost a decade now and enjoying it despite the many caveats and idiosyncrasies I come across. The bottom line is, I definitely …

I was wondering whether or not this would go "mainstream". Kind of wild to see the Times pick up this story.

I absolutely loved far cry 2. Dynamic fire and gun jamming were standouts.

Definitely agree. The biggest issue in the US is the will to change things. As you've mentioned, during the pandemic, we've seen how rapidly things can change when everyone is alig…

Preach! Been a self employed game developer for almost 10 years now. I think a lot of people fail to realize how incredibly hard it is to make a product (even a great one) and make…

Just out of curiosity what would say is the optimal way to learn from an encyclopedia, research paper or Wikipedia?

Completely agree. ChatGPT can be an incredible tool for getting a lay of the land on a subject or topic you don't know much about. On that note, search in that regard always remind…

Just out of curiosity are you using got 4 or 3.5?

Hello HN! I don't often see a lot of game dev content on hacker news, so I thought it would be fun to add some! I just spent the last 5 months updating my mobile game Command Cente…

Definitely down. Holy smokes!

Likely similar to many of you, I have been using ChatGPT quite a bit lately. My main gripe with it though is that the actual interface is quite limited, and I don't like having to …

Thanks! That would be an amazing idea. I get the feeling though that the scales are starting to tip in their favor where we are going to be needing them more then they are going to…