Unity

So regardless of whether or not it's like, like in a workflow is a completely different conversation right now on whether or not it's going to be received at all by an audience.

Yeah, like for me, again, the benefits and the positive side of it is amazing, especially for the engines out there, right? Like, for example, for Unreal and Unity, for most of last year, yeah, and Godot, like for most of last year, the conversation was around how AI is going to kill them.

even though we maintain that this is just going to be a complementary tool, and this is how it makes it better.

And just this direct plugins now, like for example, obviously, Unreal is a proper showcase that Astra did when it launched.

It's transitioned beautifully.

So tell me, you worked on, it was a Unity engine, right? A modified Unity?

Yeah, I mean, even from the start, we knew like we would use Unity because we didn't want to write our own engine, right? But like back then, nothing was prepared for 2D.

Like just nothing, right? It was so painful.

So we basically had to rewrite the entire engine anyway.

And also, if you would have used Unity in that way, right, where you make 2D stuff, but with that stuff that was prepared for 3D, the game would have just run awfully, right? So we had to rewrite the entire engine and everything.

And so we call it Moony D internally, right? And we kept that branch going forever, basically.

So yeah, it's based on Unity or it was based on Unity.

It was in the development for some time.

Anyway, so I had to add all the different networks, obviously, from Unity, Google, Integral, Meta, Moloch, Opangle, Lyft, Alplavin Exchange, which is already there anyway.

So all of these connectors had to be in place.

And also this had to be in place as well.

Right now, I would say like massive chunk, like you can go generate like 3D objects, like 2D objects with cloud code.

You can connect it with, you know, MCP to Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, and the game prototype will be built in one hour.

I have all the videos like for each engine, right? Like you can take a look.

But the key thing is, again, but you can create that game prototype or even complete game if you spend like one more week.

And maybe I was too general, but that is applicable to any aspect, to environment assets, to characters, to game mechanics, all of that.

Because imagine like...

Even right now, you can just describe game mechanic to Cloud Code, connected MCP to Unity, and there will be that game mechanic, most likely.

It will do 90% of job, right? I think, and another thing, I think, to understand the core principles of game development, like 3D and all the other aspects is also very, very appreciated.

right? Like, don't chase the fantasy.

The game development now is so democratized, right? Between Unity and Unreal and Godot and like whatever other emerging things and then the emerging AI technologies are there.

Pick a technology, learn it, and make a game.

Just make a game.

You can actually use, and we'll get to that, you know, you can synthesize 3D or stereo as well.

You know, you can use a rendering engine like Unity or Unreal, and you can actually create a scene and then render any, you know, all the point of view that you want and it's pixel perfect and so on.

But again, right, you don't capture what I call the long tail, the long tail, which is all this messy situation that you can't think about.

And for that, I think you need to have not nearly as much, but even if you had a million of these stereo pictures, for a billion of the regular mono pictures, I think that would go a long way to fix the

You just mash it to the flat, perfect, before we consume it, right? And the whole point of the technology and what we've been doing at Leia for the last 10 years is saying, hey, the 3D content is meant to be experienced in 3D.

And therefore, let's create technology that's going to allow any device, a phone, a tablet, a laptop, a computer to essentially express that content the way it was meant to.

So take any game today, any game that has been created with Unity or Unreal Engine, like literally any game for any console is 3D behind.

It's essentially 3D objects, 3D meshes, textures, and so on, but it's 3D.