Ryan Miller

Best optimization tips by Unity engineers at Unite Compilation of best Unity tips by Unity engineers gathered at Unite conference. I spent a bunch of time rewatching those talks so you don't have to.

gamedev.center/best-optimiz...

Hundreds of chunk scenes? Is that for a huge streaming world or something? Almost sounds like prefabs/addressables would be better at that quantity.

I remember hearing this years back, but couldn’t remember the source. Thanks for the link!

That's pretty good!

I've done the whole

Environment
- Static Models
-- child objects
- Colliders
-- child objects
- Interactive Models
-- child objects

Thing and I don't love it.

Unity Devs: How do you organize your scene hierarchies in Unity? Talking about Environments/Props. I don't really want to group everything. Do y'all use those scene hierarchy plugins that make fake folders? Do you make =====NPCS===== header gameobjects? Something else? TELL ME!

Exactly, just like an RPG. Is this an RPG? I think so. Maybe. Sorta.

This is entirely reasonable because I don't need my dialog to branch, use conditionals, or set variables. Simple is good!!

And for those curious, here's what the dialog content scriptable objects themselves look like. For whatever reason I prefer to roll my own solution here than use something like Yarn/Dialogue System/etc.

How the dialog appears is up to the PlayDialog that requests the DialogContent get played. It's an enum that goes into a dictionary lookup, so it should support 100 different dialog styles (please no, I'm kidding, I think I just want 2???)

I've decided to keep both dialog bubbles and the text box. Figure they'll be useful in different contexts. That's enough time working on Dialog UI, time to get back to ... gameplay? art? level design? 🤔

Made a stem for the dialog bubbles 💬

Hey you got the new Retroid Flip! Looks super cool.

Working on a 'bubble' version of the dialog player UI. I got positioning + screen clamping working. Next up will be the 'stem' graphic and placement. Maybe some padding.

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Can’t wait to see what you come up with! 😄

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

Microsoft Makes AI Mandatory For Employees: What It Means For Your Career We explore what that means for future careers & why thriving in the age of intelligent machines will require more than technical know-how; it necessitates the human edge.

Microsoft Employees are being forced to use AI, so this result is unfortunately unsurprising www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Ok don't get too excited, I put together a graphics settings screen. Contain your excitement!! It is only a menu screen.

planning ahead:
you must survive through '25
absorb the kicks in '26
keep on devvin' in '27
dire straits in '28
this is fine in '29
stay sturdy in '30

Easy: the team wants to use Slack and Microsoft forces them to have meetings on Teams.

I didn't think I could like Microsoft less, but here we are.

Built-in FBX Support and better physics, I mean, I had to give it another go!!!

Why am I making things in Godot now? It's pretty cool actually. Much improved from the last time I tried it. I gotta get back to Unity so I don't restart this project again 😖

It defaulted to english for me, but the selectable countries do not include any North America. I accept and understand this. Just curious why they haven't hit NA yet and thought somebody might know.

Fairphone looks great, but wait, they don't work in North America?

Hope you can get some rest and answers. Sorry to hear this happened.

EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops Behold, the tallest chart in Game File history. PLUS: EA execs were paid (a little) more for boosting generative AI

NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago

Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart

To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL

Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

I moderated a panel at XP Game Summit a couple weeks ago, which was a really rad event! They just recently sent some cool photos 🤩

It's been a little while! I have been adding a health bar, as well as items and food that you can eat to heal. There's a whole Item Manager / ID / Pooling thing too, but that's hard to show in a video.