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Comment by raincole | original | What to learn to be a graphics programmer
[−]raincole · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:47 UTC · link
> I can spot a unity or unreal game from miles away. They have a smell if you will that is very hard to escape.

Confirmation bias. Are you saying Hollow Knight, Cities: Skylines and Escape from Tarkov have the same kind of "smell"?

It's as ridiculous as saying that you can spot a SaaS written in Rust from miles away.

[−]lowbuzz · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:37 UTC · link
Yeah, there are some unreal "slop" games, even big ones, that just look like UE5 looks with kinda default settings, but there are also games made with these engines that look nothing like that.