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Lots of great ways to relearn this week. Enjoying!
5 ways to improve your game development skills – Want to improve your gamedev skills? You’ve come to the right place. Below, we’ve curated a selection of courses and projects that are popular with our developer community and guide you through engaging, gamified learning experiences. Read on to discover five ways to reach new heights with your next project, no matter your skill level.
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The quest for very broad contours – An exploration of GPU silhouette rendering.
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CD-ROM Shader: Diffraction Grid – Part 1 – This post will guide you through creating a shader that reproduces the rainbow reflections seen on CD-ROMs and DVDs. This tutorial is part of a longer series on physically based iridescence.
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Sort a million sprites – Let the GPU handle it, they are very good at that.
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The lost art of handheld demakes – However, as we found out when we spoke to several developers who were cutting their teeth in this era of demakes, it was also an exciting creative frontier as they followed the philosophy of the late Gunpei Yokoi of applying lateral thinking with withered technology.
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Unit 2023.1.0 Alpha 13 – Unity 2023.1.0 Alpha 13 and 2022.2.0 Beta 10 have been released.
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Videos
Seamless Textures for Unity with Midjourney – 5 minute tutorial – AI methods can be very helpful for Indie Game developers. In this video I show you how to generate seamless textures using Midjourney and Materialize and how to use them in Unity.
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See the player behind objects in Unity 2D – In this video we will use the Sprite Mask component to create a 2D x-ray effect – making the player visible behind other objects. We will also make sure that we can only see the mask when the player is actually behind an object instead of constantly.
Sunny Valley Studio
Unity – 3D Endless Runner Full Tutorial – I show you how to make a 3D endless runner from start to finish.
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Set up matchmaker | Unity Gaming Services – Learn how to use Unity Matchmaker to match the right players, at the right time, in the right place – with out-of-the-box integration with Unity Game Server Hosting (Multiplay).
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Animate your character in Blender (for Unity) – Welcome to the latest installment of the Low Poly Character series. Today we will create 2 custom animations for our character – Idle & Jumping Attack. Then we export it from Blender and import it into Unity.
PitiIT
Zelda Breath of The Wild Toon Shader Graph – Unity Tutorial – In this video we show you how to recreate Zelda Zelda Breath of The Wild Toon Shader Graph in the Unity engine.
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Resources
The craft of game design – A crash course in game design
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- Keeping the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers
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Learn how to make games in Unity 2022 – Improve your Unity developer skills with these courses. Do you want to make your own game in Unity or turn your development passion into your profession? Get this bundle of over 100 hours of online courses from GameDev.tv! Get full training in coding 2D and 3D games in Unity with C# and build your own multiplayer game with Mirror. Learn how to create and publish mobile games and discover essential development techniques for different genres. Plus, your purchase supports One Tree Planted!
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My 2k plus free instrumental pieces for you under creative commons 3.0 BY – [Direct link to assets and the link to the Reddit post]
Antti Luode
Over 10,000 free (CC0) game assets – I feel like there are people here who could benefit from some of my free asset work! In the past year, I’ve released over 30 free Public Domain asset packs totaling over 10,000 textures and tiles and put together some rather niche graphics tutorials.
twitchcoe
Gore Sound Effects Library (Free) – We have everything you need for your upcoming halloween, creepy, gory, terrifying and bloody projects.
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Sherlog – Flexible logging for C# and Unity – Sherlog is a very lightweight logging library with a clear focus on speed, flexibility and extensibility. It supports local and remote login, allowing you to receive log messages from other devices over the air.
sschmid open source
Unity Explorer – An in-game user interface for exploring, debugging and modifying Unity games.
sinai-dev open source
rosettaUI – Code-based GUI library for Unity development menus.
fuqunaga open source
Debugging – Editor debugging tools for Unity. All these methods are accessible through DebugUtils..
vertxxyz open source
Unity Debug Sheet – Hierarchical debug menu system for Unity that makes it easy to create intuitive and organized debug menus.
Haruma-K open source
UnityDeferredStickers – Improved version of Unity’s delayed decals system with layering support and some basic truncated clearance.
SanielX open source
Visual pinball machine – A library that implements the world’s favorite pinball simulator.
freezy open source
Voorhees – A terrifyingly fast C# JSON microframework.
grahamboree open source
Unity URP Temporary Anti-Aliasing – This is a Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) solution for Unity’s Universal render pipeline. URP doesn’t have a TAA fix yet, so this may solve aliasing issues for developers using URP.
CMDRSpirit open source
MotionMatchingByDreaw – Animation system for Unity engine based on motion matching.
draw131313 open source
T4 Templates – This Unity editor extension provides a T4 text template processor. T4 template is a combination of text blocks and control logic that can generate a text file. The control logic is written as fragments of program code in C#. The generated file can be of any type of text, such as a source file, source code or web page.
deniszykov open source
Unity-Target-Scanner – Target Scanner Script for Unity with features like field of view, height difference, warning zone.
vaibhavdevstuff open source
Light Probe Intensity Adjustment Tool for Unity3D – A tool that allows you to change the brightness of your light probes in Unity3D.
kemalakay open source
Gameframe.AssetCache – Library for caching and unloading assets.
coryleach open source
Unity Plane Mesh Splitter – A tool that allows you to split any mesh into smaller submeshes. Initially it was designed to work with imported Tiled2Unity terrains, but I’ve rewritten it to work with anything you can think of.
artnas open source
Unity Event Aggregator – Event aggregation in Unity made easy! Unplug your GameObjects for simpler and cleaner code.
Eric Freeman open source
Quick build for unity – Create test builds quickly without polluting the default build settings.
smidgens open source
parallaxer – Created a parallax system to speed up the implementation of parallax effects in Unity projects.
SoftBoiledGames open source
Stamp tool (extended) – This is similar to the existing Unity Terrain Stamp Tool, but supports special mouse control and other functions.
Roland09 open source
Unity-Hierarchical-Finite-State-Machine – Implementation of hierarchical finite state machine unit.
AlexBlackfrost open source
TrainAR – TrainAR is a holistic triple combination of an interaction concept, didactic framework and authoring tool for Augmented Reality (AR) training on Android and iOS wearable devices (Blattgerste et al. 2021).
jblattgerste open source
Unity3d UICircleSegmented – Custom image for uGUI, circle split into segments, with skip offset, sprite lap, global offset, circle distance gradient etc.
mitay-walle open source
Unity Curved Path Generator – Unity auto curved path generator and tracker.
KimYC1223 open source
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onirism – Onirism takes you into the wonderful world of Crearia for a great adventure! Help Carol put her enemies to sleep, using a variety of toys and skills to aid you in your quest for Bunbun in this colorful universe!
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