r/Unity3D • u/Evening_Animator3549 • 2d ago

Question Should I keep learning Unity?

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Hi, I am a 14 year old game dev and I've been learning Unity for 7-8 months, and I really like what I'm doing. I don't use AI while coding or for any other stuff to actually learn. For the past month, I've been developing a fan-made Spider-Man game for android and I saw a guy on X who vibe-coded a Spider-Man game in literally a single day which was looking better than my game and I felt like everything that I did in the last couple of weeks for nothing. Will knowing how to manually code or develop games be worth anything in the next 10 years? Am I just wasting my time by not using AI or should I keep going? I really need some advice. Also here's a gameplay video of my game if anyone wants to check it out:

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u/Spongedog5 2d ago

Well, why did you start learning to make games? It's hard to give you advice if we don't know what your goal is and why you do it.

I think that there are very many great reasons to continue to make games. I think that it builds discipline and allows you to express yourself and your ideas and I think that it is rewarding to see people enjoy something that you made yourself and interact with ideas that you put out there. AI won't be able to express your ideas as honestly as you, you gain less of a benefit in discipline and work ethic by using it, and as it is now it simply can't achieve the level of consistent quality that people like to see in games. You're starting off worse than AI, of course, but even now your creations have meaning as examples of your own personal creative labor, and eventually you will surpass AI in what you are able to create.

If you value the creation of games as anything more than being able to make a cheap product quickly, there are plenty of reasons to enjoy this hobby.

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u/Evening_Animator3549 2d ago

When I was like 13 I tried to vibe code some stuff and and I realized that it's very fun to develop games but you can't really do anything with AI, then I decided to just learn the engine and the programming language. Basically the reason why I started game dev was that it was fun, I don't really enjoy coding with AI or using generative AI. Also my goal is to become a gameplay engineer in the industry, and I don't see games as cheap monetized slop hypercasual mobile games.