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A message to our community: Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee - After deep consultation with our community, customers, and partners, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Runtime Fee for our games customers, effective immediately. Non-gaming Industry customers are not impacted by this modification.
Unity

Power progression in games: Crafting rewarding player experiences - Within this article I will be exploring power progression, how it is a fundamental element of game design, and why it taps into the human desire for growth and mastery.
gamedeveloper.com

Blender Trick For Setting Up Road Mirror Reflections - 3D Artist Faiz Azhar, also known as Kyokaz, showcased this behind-the-scenes, magical application of Blender's Ray Visibilities, rendering objects invisible to specific ray types, on a road mirror included in a larger atmospheric night-time scene, drawing inspiration from Indonesian urban landscapes.
80.lv

How To Write a Good Story That Doesn't Give Me Headaches - "When someone says a video game has a good story, they mean it has a story."
bottomfeeder.substack.com

Graphics Tricks from Boomers - Recently I released a 4096 bytes Atari intro, featuring some bandwidth impossible sprites drawing in fullscreen. I hope technical inner details could please any graphics enthusiasts, and not only boomers :)
arnaud-carre.github.io

Videos

Unity | Making a Stylized Gold / Metal Shader Graph - Here's the Gold Shader post with the Graph file
MinionsArt

R3: Observer Pattern on Steroids - Reactive Programming is not just for the hardcore devs! R3 is the new, modern reimplementation of Reactive Extensions for C# and the replacement for UniRx... and it's easier to use than you think. If you know the Observer programming pattern and understand what an extension method is, you can use R3 to supercharge your next project in Unity or Godot with Observable Streams, Subjects, Subscriptions and Operators!
git-amend

Game Dev Hack: Stop Using CONDITIONALS! Use the STRATEGY PATTERN Instead - Tired of messy conditional statements clogging up your code? In this video, we dive deep into a clean and scalable solution that will transform the way you approach your algorithms!
Pigdev

How to create a UI carousel in Unity || Unity UI Tutorial - You will learn how to create a UI carousel for your game over the course of this tutorial. The result can be customized in many ways and entries to the carousel will be created as Scriptable Objects so that you can create those separately and mix and match as needed.
Christina Creates Games

You should TRY this great STRATEGY! - The developers BiteMe Games recently did a really interesting experiment that I think more people should try.
Code Monkey

How to Make Games when you SUCK at Art - So, how do you make a game that people want to spend money on if you’re terrible at art? Most advice out there suggests getting better at it, but this video is for those who want to make progress on their game now, without waiting years to improve their art skills.
Sasquatch B Studios

My Process for creating pixel art scenes in Blender - Didn't cover everything but hopefully this gives you a basic idea how you can bring pixel art into 3d
Tim Morrow

Assets

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BurstSDFGenerator.cs - Signed Distance Field generator for Unity with Burst support
runevision Open Source

Smart Addresser - Automate Addressing, Labeling, and Version Control for Unity's Addressable Asset System.
SmartAddresser Open Source

Night Optimization Kit - Boost Unity performance with the Night Optimization Kit! Includes NightJob System, Dynamic Culling, DotTrail V2, Nightpath FlowField Pathfinding and NightPool. Maximize efficiency in your games!
CyberAgent Game & Entertainment Open Source

RuntimeUnitTestToolkit(v2) - CLI/GUI Frontend of Unity Test Runner to test on any platform.
Cysharp Open Source

InputSystemActionPrompts - Automatically set controller prompts in text and icons in your Unity game UI.
simonoliver Open Source

Unity Grass Instancer - Unity C# super simple approach for GPU instanced grass (+ occlusion/frustum culling)
MangoButtermilch Open Source

Visual Pinball Engine - VPE is a toolkit with the goal of making it easy to create pinball machines digitally. It uses Unity's High Definition Render Pipeline and comes with extensive editor tooling that aims to provide all the features needed for such a task.
freezy Open Source

Unity Utility Library - Welcome to the Unity Utility Library, a growing collection of handy extension methods, helpers, attributes, and other utilities designed to enhance and simplify your Unity development workflow. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting, this library aims to provide tools that will help streamline your coding process and add efficiency to your projects.
adammyhre Open Source

YNL-Editor - Enhance your Unity Editor experience with this toolkit. It provides essential extensions and interfaces specifically designed for the Editor environment.
Yunasawa Open Source

GeoVfx - Examples of geographical data visualization with Unity VFX Graph
keijiro Open Source

Korpi Engine - Simple, modern, code-only C# game engine!
japsuu Open Source

Unity-SDF-UI-Toolkit - UI components that render based on SDF. Rounded corners, outlines, SDFTexture editor.
TLabAltoh Open Source

Burst Triangulator - 2d Delaunay triangulation with mesh refinement for Unity with Burst compiler
andywiecko Open Source

Graphlit - Custom Node Shader Editor for Unity
z3y Open Source

core - What is core? An action-RPG roguelike game. A GUI-Tool for editing the game itself. A framework for writing such games. A modular engine which can be used as a library too.
damn Open Source

Unity 2D Pixel Perfect Collider - Unity 2d pixel perfect collider is a simple c# script that comes jam packed with features to help you automatically generate pixel perfect colliders.
RandomiaGaming Open Source

Custom tags and text animation for TMP - Extend Unity TextMeshPro with custom tags and text animations
oneir0mancer Open Source

VitalRouter - The source-generator powered zero-allocation in-memory message passing library for Unity and .NET.
hadashiA Open Source

Development Acceleration System for Unity projects - The DevAccelerationSystem helps to enable features to speed up development iteration from code perspective. It includes ProjectCompilation checks for all your target platforms with different scripting define symbols combinations in your project.
FoxsterDev Open Source

Game Management - Essential and minimalistic game management tools: messaging, service locator, data-storage and more
chark Open Source

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UnityGAS - Gameplay Ability System from Unreal to Unity
h2v9696 Open Source

Lightmap switching tool - Tool that allows switching different baked lightmap sets on a unity scene at runtime.
laurenth-personal Open Source

Vloxy Engine - Performance oriented voxel engine for unity.
VloxyEngine Open Source

ProceduralMotionTrack - Simple procedural motion with Unity Timeline.
keijiro Open Source

UIMask - Reverse Mask of Unity "Mask" component
dreamcodestudio Open Source

CarController - Simple car controller for Unity requiring only a body with four wheels.
NilsSlui

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Spotlight

Monito - Follow Monito to uncover the truth behind the disappearing stars and explore their beautiful 3D pixel art world.
Monito Game

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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