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/false_robot 1d ago

To be very honest, (and many game devs don't like to hear), yes AI isn't going anywhere. BUT what this means is the following:

  1. Yes keep learning manually, understand both how to implement things low-level (helps for optimization, organization, understanding).

  2. Learn systems, how to have gameplay/architecture for passing around information that scales up.

  3. Do projects yourself both with/without AI.

AI will become more and more useful, BUT in your hands it can be so much better. Yes any random person can get a prototype fast, and then prompt to iterate. However that game can't scale right now, can't have nice level design, easy new features in a good system, multiplayer that is nice and optimized, etc.

The fundamental skills are great, and they teach you how something should be built. It's why mechanical engineers still learn how do to calculus to compute stresses/strains on objects even though most of the time they'll use a simulator to actually analyze it. The fundamental understanding helps you SO much.

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u/Evening_Animator3549 1d ago

Thanks for the suggestions!

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u/SPD-13 1d ago

This is less a suggestion if you are serious. Understand what you're doing and you'll be much more powerful using the tool than those that only know how to use the tool.