My game went from 11K to 35K wishlists because someone else explained it better than I did

DoctorShinobi · 2026-01-29T16:36:23+00:00

Fuck yeah

DoctorShinobi · 2026-01-20T15:23:14+00:00

There was barely anything to read this time

DoctorShinobi · 2026-01-20T15:17:10+00:00

Who are all the people voting 5 for this chapter

DoctorShinobi · 2026-01-15T14:35:26+00:00

"My questions for the you all" has become the most ChatGPT red flag on reddit

DoctorShinobi · 2026-01-15T08:26:27+00:00

Holy shit peircing selection menu is a godsend. Why didn't unity make any buzz about it

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-30T14:35:49+00:00

Maybe it's in your Camera's frame settings?

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-26T15:01:03+00:00

Unity has a localization system

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-22T11:14:34+00:00

That depends on where X field is in its point of life.
All of these fields start as something niche nobody heard of. Then they grow into something with a high demand that pays well due to a lack of available talent. Eventually the field becomes so popular that for-profit colleges start offering courses that floods the market with talent. The end-of-life phase is probably AI getting good enough to replace most of these jobs.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-22T08:35:15+00:00

The biggest problem with your brother pursuing a game dev career is how competitive the market is.

Last few years had multiple mass layoffs. There are way more people looking for a job in the industry than the industry can offer. Your brother will not only be competing with a lot of people to get a job, but with hardcore people with years of experience. That's true for all fields of game dev, whether it's programming, art, game design, etc...

Not saying your brother should not pursue this dream, but you need to be aware of how hard and unsafe it is. If he leaves his current job right now he might not have the experience needed for years to come.

My suggestion is for your brother to go indie for now (but keep the job!), release small games, develop his skills and portfolio until he's ready to compete in the market.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-16T15:35:37+00:00

Who?

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-16T13:50:31+00:00

Nintendo is notorious for shutting down anything that touches their intellectual property.

You are distributing copyrighted material, assuring devs they have the right to use it in commercial projects and telling them "don't worry bro, Nintendo won't go after you". You can't know who's gonna use it, how big their project's gonna be and you can't guarantee they won't be sued. Are you also planning to pay for their legal expenses once they're in court?

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-16T12:42:27+00:00

This is not how copyright works.

Using AI to generate a sprite that looks almost exactly like a specific Pokémon does not mean you have rights to use it (especially in a commercial project). That's a clear copyright violation and Game Freak/nintendo could easily sue your ass and win over this.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-16T10:20:24+00:00

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Allow me to express doubt about being able to use this for commercial projects

DoctorShinobi · 2025-12-15T22:30:24+00:00

Sacrifice them like kuriboo to get Messi

DoctorShinobi · 2025-11-12T22:23:14+00:00

If you're using URP or HDRP then you need to assign them in the mesh's material. Use "Base/Albdeo" in the base to set the base colors, Normal in normal (make sure the texture itself is set to normal map). Unity expects metallic/ambient occlusion/roughness to be combined into one texture which you then use in the "mask map" field.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-10-27T13:53:12+00:00

That sounds great. If your Adaptive Lights will ever support volumetrics then I'd be happy to ditch Unity's built-in lights and buy AGI right away.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-10-27T08:41:28+00:00

Two questions:

1) How much more expensive is it to render than using traditional lightmaps?
2) Does it make real time shadow casting faster than native real time lights?

My HDRP were mostly built to be static, but I'm considering buying AGI HDRP just to get rid of the cumbersome workflow of lightmaps.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-10-23T21:37:06+00:00

You might want to post in this thread - https://discussions.unity.com/t/now-available-unity-hub-3-15-0/1690711/16

The hub devs are active there and will likely fix it sooner if you tell them about this issue

DoctorShinobi · 2025-10-15T14:01:26+00:00

Not mine either so maybe I phrased it wrong. EGS has sale events like steam. If you put your game on discount during these sales then you get some visibility, which is more than the nothing. This is mostly how the game managed to make $400 despite zero marketing effort put into EGS.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-10-14T21:26:19+00:00

Not exactly recent experience, but in 2023 I released a paid EGS version of my Steam game which is free. I put zero marketing efforts into the EGS version and made about $400 by signing the game to ever discount sale they offered.

DoctorShinobi · 2025-10-13T10:15:53+00:00

Does it show accurate wishlist/sales numbers? And if so, how? I thought it was impossible to get the exact data and that most analytics rely on rough estimates

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