Hacker News with Generative AI: Unity

Unity's struggles continue with fresh wave of layoffs (theverge.com)
Unity has been hit with another round of layoffs.
Alexandre Mutel a.k.a. xoofx is leaving Unity (mastodon.social)
Unity CEO's Internal Announcement to Staff Amidst the Layoffs (80.lv)
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 Editor subscription price increase. (unity.com)
After extensive consultation with our games community and customers, we’ve decided to cancel the Runtime Fee.
What is DOTS? (group47.com)
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.
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.
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.
Unity Editor software terms update: Runtime fee cancellation (unity.com)
Unity is cancelling the runtime fee for games customers (unity.com)
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.
Random Thoughts about Unity (aras-p.info)
Unity Catalog: Open, Multi-Modal Catalog for Data and AI (github.com/unitycatalog)
Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++ (austinmorlan.com)
Unity 6 preview is now available, contains WebGPU support (unity.com)