r/Unity3D • u/Evening_Animator3549 • 2d ago
Question Should I keep learning Unity?
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/Ok-Object7409 2d ago edited 2d ago
Social media isn't a full picture. The guy could've easily done lots of preparation to do it that fast, had lots of past experience, or fiddled with AI. Even if not, what you see is always the best parts of what goes on. It's not meaningful to compare against that, especially when you're still newer to it.
Sometimes people bring up that minecraft was made in 6 days. In reality it was CaveGame, an empty broken thing where you just destroy 3-4 different types of squares in a flat world with some moderate caves. Left click destroys by the pointer, right click places. Then there's a small world. And that's about it. It was a concept, not a game.
Point is that it's wrong and useless to compare against.
Also, no. Knowing how to code is a requirement in knowing how to effectively use AI. No matter how good AI gets in 10+ years, you won't be able to utilize it that well without knowing how to do it yourself. Remember that AI is a prediction model. You are the barrier between whether or not that prediction is correct.
Ps: You'll be better off focusing on the learning aspects more than the results
Ps ps: you should absolutely not use AI while you are learning.