Unity, Dystopia, and More Money in Your Pocket

Hi Hackers,

Over the last few weeks, all of Big Tech seems intent on blurring the lines between Sci-fi and reality.

For instance, towards the end of May, the FDA confirmed its approval of Elon-backed Neuralink - a landmark in the company’s journey to creating a “high-bandwidth interface to the brain”.  Then, after already turning Microsoft’s Fortunes around, the AI rave, briefly, spring-boarded Nvidia to the trillionaire’s club. Moreso, seemingly unbothered by all the fanfare around generative -AI, Apple looks to have found a way to grow Metaverse adoption with the unveiling of its Vision Pro.

Brain-machine interfaces, Larger than life language models, the “meta-apple”.

It’s all starting to get a little dystopian, isn’t it?

There’s Money in Unity (for Game Devs)

Back in the real world, Tatum Games & HackerNoon want to reward you for your knowledge about game development with Unity.

The Unity Writing Contestcomes with a $3000 prize pool. You can write any story that focuses on game development with Unity. Feel free to share your projects, learnings, and observations in Unity game development. We also encourage you to write on analytics for Unity games.

Here are some other ideas to consider:

• Why are game analytics important?
• How do analytics help your game succeed?
• Try out MIRKOS by Tatum games and share your thoughts.
• How can MIRKOS’ reputation score be used to prevent Hackers/Trolls from joining your game?
• How can MIRKOS’ spending score be used to increase revenue?
• Google analytics vs MIRKOS analytics.

Sounds good? Get started now!

Weekly Writing Tips

Before you submit your next story, here is a quick reminder about our guidelines and writing tips. Taking note of these will ensure that your article has the best chance of getting published and reaching as many readers as possible.

1. Include disclaimers for AI-generated content: We understand how helpful generative AI can be for a variety of use cases, especially for creating, editing, and, even, translating articles. While we work to define our guidelines regarding AI-generated stories clearly, we ask that you include a short description right after your introduction, detailing how AI was used to create or improve your article.

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2. Always add a featured image to your blog post. Your lead image is worth a thousand words. And because of how social networks work, it is like your second headline.

If you don’t already have the perfect featured image for your story, you can select from our range of AI image generator models, or free image sources.

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3. Use Emoji Credibility Indicators to add context to your stories. Are you writing a guide, a piece of fiction, or even a satirical take on emerging topics? These emoji credibility indicators provide transparency for HackerNoon’s readers and writers. They also ensure that your stories aren’t taken out of context.

To set your story’s credibility indicators on any draft, visit the “story settings” flyout menu and scroll down to “Emoji credibility indicators”. The “?” tooltip will also give a brief explanation of what each credibility indicator means in order to help writers choose the appropriate context.

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These are just some of the guidelines, for a full list click here.

That’s it for now!

You’re all set to write your next masterpiece!