Hacker News with Generative AI: Unity

Vibe-gamedev: a tool for AI vibecoding with Unity (github.com/ryholmdahl)
vibe-gamedev is a Unity package that creates an interface between the Unity editor and AI agents, allowing end-to-end vibecoding for game development. It serializes GameObjects to JSON files that can be read and edited by agents, then deserializes those files back into updated GameObjects.
Game Development, Artificial Intelligence, Unity, Tools
5 points by friendshaver 23 days ago | 0 comments
Unity's struggles continue with fresh wave of layoffs (theverge.com)
Unity has been hit with another round of layoffs.
Unity, Layoffs, Gaming Industry, Business
7 points by jarsin 44 days ago | 1 comments
Alexandre Mutel a.k.a. xoofx is leaving Unity (mastodon.social)
Gaming, Unity, Developers
9 points by bj-rn 49 days ago | 0 comments
Unity CEO's Internal Announcement to Staff Amidst the Layoffs (80.lv)
Unity, Layoffs, Business, Video Games
11 points by pjmlp 50 days ago | 1 comments
Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails (gamedeveloper.com)
Unity has spent $205 million laying off 25 percent of its workforce this fiscal year and it looks like the company isn't finished yet.
Unity, Layoffs, Business, Video Games, Technology
27 points by myth_drannon 52 days ago | 1 comments
Unity Editor subscription price increase. (unity.com)
After extensive consultation with our games community and customers, we’ve decided to cancel the Runtime Fee.
Unity, Gaming, Business, Subscriptions
18 points by psham81 93 days ago | 0 comments
What is DOTS? (group47.com)
Game Development, Unity, Programming
23 points by tobr 96 days ago | 10 comments
Valve's Flickering Lights (alanzucconi.com)
This article will explore the origin of the popular flickering light effect, seen across many of their titles including “Quake”, “Half-Life”, “Half-Life: Alyx” and “Portal”. A Unity package to use this very effect can be download at the end of the article.
Gaming, Visual Effects, Unity, Software, Game Development
6 points by PaulHoule 121 days ago | 1 comments
Breaking out of VRChat using a Unity bug (khang06.github.io)
This vulnerability is patched in VRChat 2024.3.1p4 and Unity 6000.0.20f1, 2022.3.48f1 and 2021.3.44f1.
Virtual Reality, Gaming, Security, Software Bugs, Unity
42 points by sonixier 131 days ago | 5 comments
Ask HN: How many studios / developers have moved away from Unity? (ycombinator.com)
It's been over a year since the Unity runtime fee debacle, I'm curious for those in the games industry how many studios or individual developers you've seen that have moved on from Unity to something like Unreal or Godot.
Gaming Industry, Game Engines, Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot
22 points by 1000nettles 134 days ago | 12 comments
Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation (unity.com)
Unity, Software Updates, Licensing, Game Development, Business
40 points by vyrotek 176 days ago | 38 comments
Unity is cancelling the runtime fee for games customers (unity.com)
Gaming, Unity, Business
150 points by dagmx 204 days ago | 76 comments
Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up' (gamedeveloper.com)
Godot was a big winner when devs revolted against Unity's Runtime Fee: but its founders were worried about a surprise influx of users.
Game Development, Godot Engine, Unity, Business, Industry News
160 points by kruuuder 210 days ago | 140 comments
Random Thoughts about Unity (aras-p.info)
Unity, Game Development, Programming
107 points by luu 227 days ago | 76 comments
Unity Catalog: Open, Multi-Modal Catalog for Data and AI (github.com/unitycatalog)
Open Source, Data, AI, Data Catalog, Unity
17 points by ramoz 295 days ago | 4 comments
Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++ (austinmorlan.com)
C/C++, Software Development, Game Development, Unity
65 points by sph 322 days ago | 44 comments
Unity 6 preview is now available, contains WebGPU support (unity.com)
Unity, Gaming Development, WebGPU, Software Updates, Game Engines
10 points by astlouis44 338 days ago | 1 comments