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But more than that, it can continue to give you the latest best practice skills. And from the perspective of a developer – the certification can help an employment in that case. That’s from the side of someone hiring, from that perspective. And that might help you make the decision easier. And in that case, you might have five candidates, all of them have great portfolios, but only one has the сertificate. And sometimes you might need something else on top of that – to show that the foundational theory is also there. The challenge is that lots of people have good portfolios. The core thing that people are always looking for is – show me your work. I think that certificate is an additional layer. It’s just a tool that some people can use if they want to have another level of ability to understand who the candidate is.īut doesn’t that mean that everybody will want to use it? If you can choose, you want to choose from the best. Doesn’t that move raise the entry threshold to the industry for the developers? Speaking of experts: Unity is starting the Unity Certification Program. Or you can give a Ferrari to a Formula One driver. And he’ll probably drive very slowly or crush the car. So the result is always down to the hands of people using it. The tool is quite capable of making world-class AAA products – I gave you examples. And we’d rather give a tool for everyone, and the result of people creativity would be the difference maker. There’s natural stress between a tool for everyone and a tool for specific people who are great. Aren’t you afraid of lowering the standards of the industry? And no YouTube video has ever won an Oscar. But not every smartphone owner is James Cameron.

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But it is.Īccording to David Helgason, Unity’s democratization will be completed when game making is as simple as movie making. I’d say that is one of the challenges of us being “the engine of the people” – the perception that Unity is not used to make great games. Would you call it the minus of the huge democratization? So what that means it’s just the perception that Unity is not used to make great games. A large number of them make games that are critically successful. When you have 1,5 mln developers, some of them make really great games. So the perception is that engine just makes great things. They have a very small set of developers. There are some companies who make engines and who don’t have a very large ecosystem. And that, I think, happens when you have a very large ecosystem of developers.

Because actually as well as those games there are hundreds of other games that are either not critically successful or not commercially successful or both things. The challenge that the perception is not the case. There are a lot of games made with Unity that fit that characteristics. It’s subjective, but that’s really what it means.

AAA really means that the game is critically acclaimed AND makes lots of money. Unity is not perceived as having many AAA-products. The company is the leader in the engine market, but there is no AAА console project with it. That probably the one area of the friction but we are addressing that. But we recognize that and we change that. And that may be one of the areas where Unity has started to have some stress in the last six month. To give you a bit more of that – when you got that complicated ecosystem, one of the challenges that you might have is how do you maintain the quality across so many things you do. It’s a complicated world, but we see it as opportunities, not challenges. And it’s global now, not just in one area. There’re VR and AR, and Unity itself has 25 platforms and counting, and we have 1,5 mln active developers a month. And we got more than ever these new technologies that can enhance the creativity. There are more platforms for developers to make games on. And the opportunities are around more than ever. We don’t really have challenges – we have opportunities. What are the main challenges Unity faces with today?

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