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Here is another week of tips, including some on keeping your scope achievable. Enjoy!

Nathan Tolbert pushes the limitations of new games on old consoles - Nathan Tolbert is a lead research software engineer at the National Center for Supercom…

@Jikoob If it works for you then there isn't anything really wrong with it.

Myself I use an asset manager that handles anything that can fit under the category of an asset, images, sound, fonts, models, maps, …

If you make a generic enough manager you can simply add an interface to allow new asset ty…

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A look at the artistic side of things. Enjoy!

Level up: exploring the artistic side of video game design - Existing in parallel to a world of hyperrealistic CGI is a growing segment of gaming using illustration and painterly art to make mesme…

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Some game dev tips before we head into the eclipse. Enjoy!

2D Water Shader Breakdown - I wanted to try out some 2D reflections and ended up with this water shader. Sampling the noise textures with pixelated UVs really helped to make it fit wi…

Hi! I am a Sound Designer and Musician, with background in creating custom effects, programming, and creating audio systems for the game industry. Committed to delivering exceptional audio experiences that enhance gameplay and captivate players. Game title releases: "Halloween match made in terror"…

Hi folks.

We are veterans of the gaming industry and are currently working on the development of an open-source game analytics platform.

We recently released repos on GitHub. The project is very young, it is currently used in one gaming studio.

We are interested in your opinion about the tool, what yo…

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This issue has a bunch of great shader posts, animation related posts, and lots more. Enjoy!

Grass System Extension : Cutting - Here’s the post that explains how to extend the grass system to add the much requested feature to cut grass. The p…

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Another week with more stuff to help you on your game dev journey. Enjoy!

The Process of Mastering Unity for VFX & Simulation - Mirza Beig showed us his cool effects and simulations, recalled his journey with Unity and its Shuriken partic…

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Some more interesting posts for you heading into the weekend. Plus don't miss those flash deals! Enjoy!

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing - There’s a certain simple animation thing that I’ve been using almost since I’ve ever…

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Lot's of great stuff on visuals and their technical implementations, plus a lot more. Enjoy!

2D Destructable Terrain in Unity using QuadTrees - In this tutorial we will create somewhat optimized destructible 2D terrain that will seem familiar…

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Get your dev on for another week. Enjoy!

A New & Unique Approach to Creating Mirrors for Games in Unity - According to the developer, the novel method is faster than ray tracing and more detailed than Screen Space Reflections.
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This is first part of the game development blogs where I will be implementing different Design Patterns in Game Development using Unity Game Engine. Today I will be using Factory Design pattern to demonstrate the infinite enemy spawner level in unity. This is a series so at the end of e…

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Back with another issue, hope your game dev is going well. Enjoy!

Unity Presents a Novel Method For Generating Texture Maps - The proposed framework utilizes a PBR diffusion model in combination with a frozen RGB model.
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Welcome to World of Stickman, an exciting real-time strategy world where you'll take part in epic battles of antiquity with Stickman heroes. Choose your civilization - Romans, Egyptians or Vikings - and go to war to rule the ancient world.

Game Features:

• Epic Battles: Exp…

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Enjoy another issue, I hope you find something useful!

Efficient GPU Rendering for Dynamic Instances in Game Development - This article explores a custom rendering architecture designed to efficiently render procedurally generated geometry. O…

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Some insightful deep dives into how things work this week, plus the usual smorgasbord of great game dev topics. Enjoy!

The most important goal in designing software is understandability - When you're designing a piece of software, the single …

If you search for SoulerCoaster, you will find a multitude of names for it. It is also named Curvemesh, Splinemesh, or Swoosh.

They describe a technique to visualize magic or energetic effects.

It is defined as two quads that are oriented or…

Just sent an e-mail inquiry. Hope to work with you soon!

The project sounds interesting 🙂

LorenzoGatti said:
the screenshot only shows high quality but otherwise unremarkable still images

I saw a “Paper Mario”-type animation there. But yes, a description here is called for.  And if pseudojester doesn't come back and continue the discussion, he's probably spamming us (pushing “sticker…

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Enjoy another week of tutorials, tips and good coding practices!

PID Controllers in Unity3D - This post will cover the use of PID controllers in video games. If you’ve ever used your car’s cruise control, flown a quadrocopter, or piloted a ro…

Hello everyone, I would like to share my article series about JSON essentials in Unity by using Newtonsoft. 

I explained and exemplified serialization and deserialization, beautification to json data output and creating custom json converter to serialize and deserialize interface and abstr…

Hello,

World of Anork version 1.4 is out:
https://anork.neocities.org/

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Keep the new year chugging along with more great tutorials. Enjoy!

AI Content on Steam - Today, after spending the last few months learning more about this space and talking with game developers, we are making changes to how we handle games t…

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Hope everyone had a good end of the year. We are back for the first issue of 2024. Enjoy!

Making small games, which is fun in itself - Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the…

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The past 2 months I've been working on moving away from Unity. Over the years I've made a lot of editor tools for use in Unity, and I found that Godot didn't really suit my project, so I decided to make a custom engine that has all the runtime features that I use in Unity, and to which I would expo…

This ball seems “3d” at all times, it's probably a simple convex mesh that is rotated and translated according to the simulated movement of the ball (treated as a perfect sphere).

Aren't you using a game engine that allows drawing and moving such a simple 3d model easily? What do you find challengin…

The goal is to give our players various items to choose from. For this example, our players will choose a weapon, armor for protection, and boots. We want to visualize these choices on the character.

The imagined system should enable quick equip…

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Short and sweet this week. Enjoy!

Unite 2023: Deepening our commitment to game development - In the Keynote, we’re kicking things off with a preview of the next major, supported version of Unity – with a new name. Say “hello” to Unity 6, our …

I'm looking for non-beginner unity programmers for an RTS inspired by Red Alert, Tiberian Sun, Supreme Commander and other games from the golden age of RTS games. This game will take place in the near future and will feature slightly scifi units but with a very military feel to them. We are current…

Profile the program. It's the only way to know for certain.

Unity has a built-in profiler that can give you a lot of data. Pix is a free profiler from Microsoft that can also reveal issues, and is especially focused on graphics profiling but can also tell a lot about the game when configured properl…

I'll change my focus here then, thanks for the feedback, truly appreciate it :D

@Brian Sandberg We'll definitely consisder that, it's a good idea! :D Glad you like it and thanks for the support! God bless

toaderman said:
Does anyone have any advice on how to start out or recommend any good courses on how to learn Unity and C#?

This depends on your goals.

If your goal is to just make something, then it doesn't really matter much, get whatever you want to dive in to your learning journey. Unity's website…

Lessaria is an exciting indie game in development by an independent studio "Rockbee" using the Unity engine. Drawing inspiration from the beloved Majesty series, our goal is to create an engaging and immersive kingdom simulation experience for players like you.

In Lessaria, you will embark on a gran…

@OsaOsa1993 If you're interested please send me a message with the role you want to fulfill and your discord handle. Thanks for reading through this mountain of text!

The Unity documentation for NetworkIdentity says that every object you want to talk about on the network, should have an identity. So it sounds like you should.

Project Name: Yami

Program/Language: [Unity using C#, version 2020.1.2F1, GitLab use for version control.]

Roles Required: [Programmer, Social Media Manager]

Unity Programmer

This position requires knowledge of git and or Sourcetree as well as some experience working on a team and reading others code. …

We're an international indie team [10+ folks] who have been working on a deckbuilding roguelike with an Eastern European fantasy flavor for about a year. 

Currently, the game is 2/3rds complete relative to our early access release goals. So, we're looking at a timeline of about 3 to 5 months be…

void ToggleValueChanged(Toggle change)
{
	m_Text.text = data.Visit;
	m_Text.color =data. enabledColor;
}

void ChangeType(Toggle m_Toggle)
{
	data.m_Toggle.gameObject.SetActive(false);
	data.acceptedPhoto.gameObject.SetActive(true);
}

these are inside the body of

private void OnMarkerClick(OnlineMaps…

Check the original blog post at TheGameDev.Guru: Static Batching in Unity Like You Never Saw

Reason for this blog post is simple:

Most developers think they know how static batching truly works. But that’s a lie: they don’t.

They just know the basics Unity taught them, while ignoring all the low level…

Explore more options with the Localization package and learn how to localize a dynamic text.

Linear interpolation is everywhere. Games, 3D animation, image creation tools and much more all rely heavily on interpolation, so having a thorough understanding of linear interpolation is extremely important.

This text is somewhat geared towards game developers, however it's general enough to apply…

Check the original blog post at The Gamedev Guru: Don't Let Offscreen Objects Ruin Your Performance - Unity CullingGroup API

Learn how to make your expensive scripts cost nothing while they are offscreen.

Table of Content

• Offwhat GameObject?
• The Performance Cost(s) of Offscreen Objects
• You Have a Rogue …

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Evolving AR from the tabletop to the great outdoors. Bringing the streets of 1941 Lochee to your street. Emulating a museum experience …

Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weta Digital’s tools, pipeline, technology, and engineering talent. Ultimately, this acquisition is designed to pu…

Esenthel Engine - http://esenthel.com/ - the Free and Open Source Game Engine

Just got a Huge Update:

Esenthel Engine Nintendo Switch™ support is now complete and available to all Nintendo Authorized Developers.

Download Esenthel Engine from - https://github.com/Esenthel/Es…

Following the recent announcement of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), AMD is today making the source code for its powerful spatial upscaling technology broadly available to game developers via GPUOp…

Join us in our weekly live webinars to learn more about SCILL - Gamification as a Service and how to gamify your Unity application.

• The power of gamification and why you should get involved.
• What is SCILL - Gamification as a Service?
• Unity SCILL SDK - quick and easy setup.
• Showcase and tech deep dive.
• Q…

4Players announces the launch of its SCILL: Gamification as a Service (GaaS) platform, a free toolset based on features of the well proven engagement and community app SCILL Play.

With GaaS developers can look forward to powerful tools to generate new challenges in their games or apps with minimal e…

Unity, the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced the launch of its Game Growth Program. Aimed at supporting mobile free-to-play games, the program provides developers access to technology, resources, and funding for user acquisition to effe…

Unity has today announced that Unite Now will be back with a second season of programming beginning October 13. The fall content agenda is available now to explore and pick out sessions to join live.

The Creator Spotlight is a brand new series featuring never-before-seen content from the development…

Unity enters the mobile app store fray with its announcement of Unity Distribution Portal (UDP), enabling developers to reach beyond the Google Play store and publish on alternate app stores for Android devices.

The Unity Distribution Portal was created to help make publishing mobile games on altern…

Unity 2020.1 is now available for download. This release is not recommended for production use yet, but it includes updates to the Package Manager, editor workflows, and new programmer tools.

Learn more from the video below.