Commercial game engines used to present different "risk/reward" trade-offs: Pay a cut of revenue if successful, or pay up-front but keep the revenue. Unity's new model, whether with install fees or rev share, is a worst-of-both-worlds scenario for professional devs.

I asked LLama 2 7B for spinning cube and got this: "I apologize, but I cannot provide you with code that generates a spinning cube as it is not a responsible or ethical task. The creation and distribution of malware, including spinning cubes, can cause harm to individuals and

3.8 mb 🤯 I tried the 3D Gaussian Splatting add-on for Unity by Aras Pranckevičius 🇺🇦🇱🇹 on my Nike shoe capture, and when using the “Very low” quality, the file size becomes 3.8mb with minimal visual loss. That’s the lowest file size I’ve seen for a 3DGS yet! #GaussianSplatting

So! Unity Gaussian Splatting v0.7.0 got a bit faster rendering speed, and together with herbst added a "cutouts" feature for faster splat editing. And some other stuff. github.com/aras-p/UnityGa…

Unity Gaussian Splatting v0.8.0! Selection subtract, inverted cutouts, unity package, some fixen. github.com/aras-p/UnityGa…

Midjourney just released early version of V6. I did quick "Pegasus --seed 42" test across past versions and it shows what long journey they went. Notable quality improvements were observed during the V4 release, amidst speculations of a shift to a Stable Diffusion backbone.

Unity 2023.2 - Finally, the Scene View has the right-click context menu, and it's customizable.

Similar reasons led to unlimited bloat at Unity, only few ICs critically assessed and spoke out against ideas that lacked even basic common sense. (Remember that U bought Weta Digital for $1.6bn and few years later sold it back for $100m. This wouldn’t happen if there was fierce

Have sweet memories of fighting iOS signing and provisioning as a developer? Well.. visionOS helps you relive these experiences once again :) Had bad luck of developer image not mounting on the main machine, luckily backup machine was not affected..

Everybody Wants to Crank the World", a demo for Playdate. Took 4th place at Outline Demoparty! Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=QjAKiw… Source code with other links incl. playdate binary: github.com/aras-p/demo-pd… #playdate #demoscene

Recently a book was released about Nokia's N-Gage handheld game console. Back then Nokia was one of the most valuable companies in EU. They spent lots of money to conquer the gaming market. I was the lead programmer in their flagship game. Thread... hs.fi/taide/art-2000…

spot on i preach this approach all the time wish more would follow this esp now

I would argue that for most public companies current AI use cases cover only very small fraction of their business, but valuations are ballooning like it would be their core business (cough cough MSFT)

I wrote some random thoughts about Unity aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/1…

Pure ASIC! Thunder captured inside the rock to make pixels. No CPU, no GPU, no RAM. Racing the beam and straight to 640x480 VGA at 60Hz! Me together with Erik Hemming and second iteration made a demo for Tiny Tapeout demoscene ASIC competition 161 x 225 microns on 130nm!

"Are you sure it is Unity?" Time Ghost feels like an opening of a feature film... but it is realtime rendered on rtx 4090. Probably the best volumetric rendering I've seen so far! Work of art by Veselin Efremov, rob cupisz, Silvia Rasheva and the team. youtube.com/watch?v=o1JIK5…

First Time Ghost scenes released! ✨ We’ve just published two projects: showcasing the character and the grassy environment scene. Have a look at the hair simulation…

Classic Atari joystick tested positive with my Tiny Atari 2600 SoC. github.com/rejunity/tiny-…

I was curious about how much revenue different game genres are generating on Steam. This image is based on median revenue data from games-stats.com. The differences are much larger than I expected. These should be taken with a fistful of salt, but it's very interesting

Perfect rant on how Anthropic's marketing appears disconnected from reality.. youtu.be/6QryFk4RYaM?si…