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 particle system, and shared some tips for VFX artists.

Mars After Midnight - Most of the work on this game so far has been figuring out how to make interesting-looking martians. I've been prototyping this in Python, writing a script that combines individual facial features with a head shape and some extra stuff.

Behind the implementation of .NET's PriorityQueue - In this post, I look at the implementation of PriorityQueue, understand how it uses the underlying array as a heap data structure, and discuss the complexity of the implementation.

My favourite data structure: The trie - The trie is a deeply nested tree. The structure is commonly used for predictive text engines because you can represent all strings as a tree. Then, you can use word probabilities to decide on what word you should recommend.

Local UVs for Sprites in Sprite Sheet/Atlas - Some shader effects can rely on having a 0-1 UV coord across the sprite, but this breaks if the sprite is part of a larger sprite sheet (i.e. Sprite Mode set to Multiple) or if sprites are automatically packed via a Sprite Atlas asset.

Learn Large-Scale Multiplayer with Megacity Metro - Explore multiplayer development with Megacity Metro. This demo will help you build cross-platform games using Unity Cloud Services, DOTS, and the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), enhanced by features like prediction, interpolation, and lag compensation for smooth gameplay, even in high-latency situations.

4 ways to Highlight, Copy Paste Text in Unity with TextMesh Pro - Learn how to copy text from your Unity game to your system's clipboard to paste everywhere and add a colored highlight to your text to make it visible. This works with Text Mesh Pro You can paste text copied like this into input fields in your Unity game, or outside of your game, as it uses the operating system's clipboard.

Jonathan Blow on Advice For Indie Game Developers - Jonathan Blow on Advice For Indie Game Developers

Loading Scenes On Demand Has Never Been Easier! - Loading Scenes and their Dependencies using Addressables either from your build or remotely with Unity CCD (Cloud Content Delivery) is worth it - now more than ever before with the new CCD Manager SDK, it's just so simple. Lower your memory footprint, load scenes on demand and even lower your build size.

Generate NavMesh from Your Terrain Paths #unity3d - Recently I needed to generate a nav mesh that matched up with my terrain and I wanted it to just match with my terrain painting exactly.

I Rebuilt My Engine To Optimise This Properly - I spent the past 6 years creating a game engine, and I've been shocked at the things that can make or break performance. I put together 4 simple optimisations that you can use to make your games run much quicker.

Top 3 Problems Solved With Git Commands - Don't let one more day go by without starting your journey to Git Mastery! Let a professional software engineer show you how to solve the 3 most common problems in Git - Merge Conflicts, Removing Secrets and Disaster Recovery, and learn how to impress your coworkers at the same time.

Prototype To Publish In Unity: Software Bundle - Get your Unity game in motion. Get your game idea out of your head and into the world with this Unity bundle, full of assets and tools to help you hit the ground running with prototyping! Whether you’re looking for 3D models, tools to create your own sprites, or packages full of readymade effects, you’ll be covered. You’ll also get access to a host of toolkits to help you painlessly implement critical game features, everything from quest and inventory systems, to grid and hex-based maps.

HelloMarioFramework - Create your own 3D Mario game with Hello Mario Framework for Unity!

ui-toolkit-safe-area - A Safe Area Container for Unity's UI Toolkit.

UnityWaitForAnim - A custom yield-instruction for Unity to wait for animations to finish.

UnityImport3D - An asynchronous runtime 3D-model importer for Unity.

MarkovCraft - MarkovJunior in Unity.

Descant - An enhanced and user-friendly Unity dialogue system plugin.

Plot-a-function-graph-in-Unity3D - graph creator for Unity3D.

Cinematic SoundWaves: Inspiring Audio For Film & Gaming Software Bundle - A treasury of royalty-free music Game developers, filmmakers, and creators of every discipline, this one’s for you! This bundle is jam-packed with over 22 hours of royalty-free music, ready to add to your latest creation. Whether you’re going for dark and eerie themes for your game, or you need to add some bright summertime vibes to your video project, this bundle has you covered. Pay what you want for 30 music and loop packs, valued at over $1,000 and help support the Children’s Miracle Network with your purchase.

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SaveManager - A free, scriptable object based, local save system for Unity. Works on all platforms using standard JSON Utility.

QuickMaterialSwap - Unity Editor script to make changing materials on an object & its children much quicker.

uimgui - UImGui (Unity ImGui) is an UPM package for the immediate mode GUI library using ImGui.NET. This project is based on RG.ImGui project.

GlassSystem - This glass shatter system simulate window fracture with hand drawn impact patterns. it is inspired by Receiver 2's algorithms: On impact, a 2D pattern is clipped on the glass surface. this list of lines is then converted to a list of polygons (shards), finally the list of polygon is used to build the new meshes and game objects. Contrary to other fracture packages that allows to breaks arbitrary 3D volumes, this package is specialized in realistically simulating two dimensional windows. Moreover it focuses on simulating Annealed Glass which is standard non-security glass.

NavMeshPlus - Unity NavMesh 2D Pathfinding.

SpaceSandbox - Procedural Celestial Body Generator (Unity + C#).

flower - Flower is a dialog system which support the keywords format like KrKr engine in Unity.

UnityNativeCamera - A native Unity plugin to take pictures/record videos with device camera on Android & iOS.

FernRPExample - This project is the implementation of FernRP Package, Include NPR/PBR.

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Loya - Explore, survive, and build walking bases with canons to fight giant monsters in this unique multiplayer open world game!

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My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest Issue #226 - Behind The Implementation

The article is a digest of various game development news, tips, and tools. It covers topics such as mastering Unity for VFX and simulations, creating interesting-looking martians using Python, implementing .NET's PriorityQueue, using the trie data structure, and optimizing game engines. It also mentions several Unity tools and plugins, as well as software bundles for game developers.