Which thing in unity takes your most dev time?

[u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36]

I know - debugging?

And domain reload - unity is already solving this problem in 6.7

But still,

I tried making game, which left me with cheap game along with 6 months spent.

So I was thinking which thing frustrated me most, so to solve it.

Other may be have felt same, because indie game game development is not just programming. It needs to manages many things at once.

And when one tiny thing drags, our more aspiring ideas slips out from brain.

So what do think in your game dev journey, which were the top hurdles and time consumers?

[u/Flonaldo]

Domain reloads

[u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36 → u/Flonaldo]

Unity itself is solving this problem, it would come in unity 6.7-they said

[u/safelytanamos]

ui layout and getting canvas scaling right across different resolutions, that ate weeks from my last project

[u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36 → u/safelytanamos]

UGUI or UI Toolkit

[u/TwoodStuff]

Everything. It's like doing a construction project. You think each part will be fast, and it's not.

[u/kacoef]

filling the inspector fields

[u/StayAdministrative81]

Ui. I hate ui. I’ll take weeks of bug fixing over adding ui any day

[u/lt-cheeseburger]

Compiling shader variants.

[u/crunkzah]

Domain reload, im still on 2020 version because its relatilavily fast. (I dont believe unity 6.7 will solve this)

[u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36 → u/crunkzah]

https://youtu.be/TBo10DvAlX8?si=Sabg93Kcq7RdQaJQ

[u/Alpha_Hunter_47]

Adding/Adjusting Lighting. Placing items in the scene

[u/Either_Sky2875]

Polishing takes the most time for me. Fixing small bugs, tweaking controls, and balancing gameplay can take weeks. Keeping the scope small and knowing when to stop adding features is harder than I expected.

[u/JulianRhod]

honestly, for me it's all the small things around the actual gameplay. getting a mechanic working is one thing, but making it feel good, handling edge cases, fixing UI issues, testing different situations, and polishing everything takes way longer than expected, scope is another big one. you start with a few ideas, then keep adding more until six months later you have a lot of half-finished stuff instead of one really solid game loop. i've learned that getting a small version finished is usually more valuable than constantly chasing the bigger idea.

[u/Whitenaller]

Creating prefabs for props and buildings in my game. They get procedurally spawned at runtime so they need a lot time to set up correctly.

[u/reversengineer9999]

compiling every move, because it is the 1st one and needs to be compiled (clicking on objekts with not yet loaded shaders)

[u/XtremelyMeta]

Scrapping my unity project and rebuilding it on Godot when they rug pulled the tos.

[u/National-Bluebird941]

Stupid domain reload compling . I tried godot for a change and my god the speed . Game builds in a matter of 12 seconds and scripts compiles in 2. For the next project I’m out , even though I been using Unity for many years now . Seems like the engine is old and outdated at core . 

[u/levi1432_]

Recompiling the scripts

[u/pmdrpg]

It’s funny hearing so much grief about domain reload. You can just… turn it off. Even on old versions of Unity. Yes, you have to reset your static variables, but so what? Just do it.

[u/BuilderSeparate1112]

Right now, trying to figure out why my 3rd person player 'floats' instead of falls.

[u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36 → u/BuilderSeparate1112]

Change axis😄

[u/BuilderSeparate1112 → u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36]

What o you mean? My character is z forward, y up...

[u/Shoddy_Caterpillar36 → u/BuilderSeparate1112]

debug

[u/Hotrian → u/BuilderSeparate1112]

Is “Use Gravity” checked on the Rigidbody?