The Future of Unity’s Game Engine

I attended the Unite conference in Amsterdam to see what Unity had in store and what they are planning for the future. Can they turn around after the runtime fee mess?

Thank you to the Unity Insider team, Kal, Phillip, for flying me there.

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[CrossCoderDev]

I’m still cautiously optimistic. I think a lot of us are waiting to see how everything pans out. I’ll still use the engine but I don’t think it’ll be for any serious projects in the future. Can’t promise anything though. 😅

[michaelsleeman]

I'm glad that Unity is not only walking back that terrible policy, but hired a guy that knew what went wrong. I'll return to Unity in a while, I got started on other projects and the Unity controversy took a lot of motivation for learning about Unity. I hope Unity will continue the comeback and improve.

[drinkwwwaterrr]

Im cautiously optimistic for Unity, I REALLY wish they forgot about AI and used their resources on more key features

[galacticgon]

I personally will be using Godot personally going forward.
Seems like a much better engine for for my projects, 2D is good, very fast, good support and open source, and lots of new love because of the Unity stuff.
Here's hoping Unity keeps going in a good direction though!

[puttiputt]

Really nice overview. I died at the end because it was too cute, awawawa. Enjoy the holidays/New Year's~

[Hossimo]

Thanks for your honest comments on unite, I personally moved to unreal for my non gaming projects after the whole fiasco and I don't see myself going back yet, but it's good to see maybe they will be taking the release schedule more seriously.

[TriggerlyDev]

Not gonna lie, pretty excited for Unity's future now

[harribarri]

Thanks Samyam for the video, Unity seems like it has a better future but i feel like its been going down hill for too long for it to be able to catch up.

[dudemannxs]

I have used Unity since it first started. I have been able to do great things with it for years but noticed over the years that it got bloated. Hopefully, it will be able to "right the ship". Godot feels like Unity 20 years ago at a fraction of the install size. Unity came to be because there was a desire for "Flash 3D." Godot may be the new Flash and rightly so.

[GingerNingerish]

Wish I could have been there with the rest of the insiders, maybe another time! Great video though, things are certainly looking a bit brighter.

[awzimmer]

every Samyam video contains some kind of veiled humor, you just have to find it

[shotbyadrone]

I loved it. 😍 Thanks for your great content.

[CibuYT]

I don't care about unity anymore to be honest, I'm waiting for godot 5 !

[Gulpy]

I feel like Unity's leadership is blind to what their target client is. They want to compete with Unreal and be on the cutting edge, but in reality, they are an engine for smaller studios and indie devs. The way unity works makes it easy to quickly iterate on ideas (in relative game dev terms) and is really approachable since C# is the language of choice. I just hope the new CEO sees this and steers the engine in the right direction.

[TREXYT]

Hi Samyam, can you tell unity team to allow us to emit particle in multiple positions with only 1 particle system please ? If we could edit unity engine components (exemple particle system) it would be awesome! But for now we can't. Nice video btw!

[xr.melissa]

I'm particularly excited about Sketch (for UXR purposes) and the WebGPU stuff!

[teemupulkkinen]

Great video! I am not sure if you are interested in Unreal Blueprints but I would love to see you do a Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints video. And to hear your thoughts about the feature.

I have been trying to learn more about Blueprints myself as I am more of a game designer than a programmer and the visual node system has been a bit easier to wrap my head around than writing things in C++. Although I hope to learn C++ eventually as well.

[DanielKierkegaardAndersen]

Haha, you had to include a clip of my flossing 😂

[haunterdaunted]

I'm cautiously optimistic, as well. As an inspiring game dev who loves the Unity game engine, I really hope that things turn around for the better. Thanks for providing such an informative video!

[TamilgamingFunnymoments]

I have created two canvas in unity the keyboard nav works on the main menu canvas perfectly but When i enter the options canvas no button is selected and i cant nav without mouse. what i should do ?