Unity AI out in Open Beta to give developers the fabled "make game" button

Because faster is famously always better when it comes to game development.

I dislike Unity since they have build in the call home spy functionality: singleplayer games that send telemetry to Unity etc. Now they force beginners to create slop games with stolen data instead of learning how to make games. I am sure, that low level entry point will lead in more slop games pretty soon, where people think they can make money flooding the stores with generated slop games.

Could it be that too many serious game devs switched to Godot or Unreal Engine after their previous enshittifications, so they decided to pull newcomers with "here everyone can create games" or companies to tell "your game studio can do the same work with 5x less artists in half the time", not saying that many people don't want to play slop?

8 years ago I thought that neuronal network algorithm will be a great deal for game development, not because it can generate assets, but because it can change or calculate data on runtime. My hopes were that usernames can be voice generated by TTS while all static texts are spoken by actual voice artists. Other hopes were that animating clothes physically correct without clipping to a much lower performance impact than doing actual math will become a standard technique build in engines. Everything trained ethical correctly of course (because it does not require large models). The reality is, biggest companies are allowed to steal all data to sell them combined via a so called "model"-file ... or worse, just selling the access to it ... to generate the whole game instead. And instead of cool technical improvements to simulate visual physics we get double FPS fake images that increases the latency.

If technologies can be used in a good way and a bad way, why we always decide to use them in the worst way possible?

Edit:
I am not afraid AI will replace serious game development any time soon. But game stores will look more and more like YouTube: 80% slop and 20% actual games on the search results and for little Indies it will get even harder to get found. So less people can live from that work, even if these games are good.

Last edited by PlayingOnLinuxphone on 5 May 2026 at 11:15 am UTC

Ahhhhhh yes this is what I have always wanted. For the longest time, I have told my wife "you know, with my limited game time, what I REALLY REALLY REALLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYY want is a flood of extremely low quality garbage that I have to sift through to get to anything worth playing. That's what I dream of"

And now it's coming true! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 🤬

Even before this--even before ChatGPT launched, to be honest--there were more new games published on Steam alone in a week than I could have gotten around to playing in a year. Then add in those that are published on other game stores, consoles, phone app stores, and itch.io. If you want to go back further, shovelware was a drag even in the twentieth century. I have no idea what the promoters of this technology would consider the best case scenario for it; I'm not sure they do either. But I'm certain it will mean more crap, less quality, and reduced visibility and sales income for people who actually invest time and care in their work.