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How to get better fps on PC while porting games to consoles - In this article, we will discuss the best optimizing practices for console builds, which may also help you improve PC build performance.
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awesome-mixed-reality - A curated list of awesome resources for Mixed Reality development.
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Get our new technical e-book on multiplayer networking for Unity developers - Are you an experienced developer of single-player games that plans to make your first multiplayer project in Unity? Then be sure to check out our new technical e-book for multiplayer networking, which is now available to download.
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6 steps to a successful playtesting process for an indie developer - Maxim Kiselev, an indie game developer best known as the co-creator of HighFleet, outlined the playtesting roadmap for indie developers.
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I found how to make the censor effect - Shadergraph for creating a censor effect
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Videos

Coding Adventure: Rendering Fluids - We've succeeded in the past to make a bunch of little balls behave like a fluid, but can we now make them look like a fluid too? In this video we'll explore a few different techniques, and also attempt a simple simulation of foam and spray to liven things up!
Sebastian Lague

Retro PS1 Inspired Texturing & Modeling Tutorial | Blender and Substance Painter - Hello everyone and welcome to a new tutorial video! This time we will be taking a deep dive in to modeling and texturing a PS1 inspired retro model.
Pixel Perfect

The Fastest Way to Design Levels in Unity 6? (Pro Builder Explained) - Learn how to create stunning game levels using Unity's Pro Builder! This tutorial covers everything from installing the Pro Builder package to mastering tools like primitives, UV mapping, texturing, and snapping. You'll also explore advanced features such as creating custom shapes with Poly Shape, edge loops, bevels, and texture atlases. Whether you're prototyping or refining your game world, these techniques will elevate your design process.
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Clean and Extensible: Chain of Responsibility in Unity Projects - Chain of Responsibility is a powerful design pattern that shines in Unity development for creating modular, extensible systems. In this video, we explore its application through two examples: a quest system that cleanly handles state transitions like starting, completing, and failing quests, and a debugging toolkit that processes logs, state saves, and null checks in a dynamic and flexible way.
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Learn Procedural Animation in Unity (Free complete course - Unity tutorial) - Here is a FREE course that teaches you how to create procedural animations in Unity! Learn how to procedurally animate your characters in Unity3D! This t …
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How-to: Build a Functional Ragdoll in Unity! - Join the Unity Pro Training team as they teach the Unity Community how to build, rig and use a functional ragdoll, all with a holiday season twist!
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Getting Started with Netcode for Entities! (DOTS Multiplayer Tutorial Unity 6) - Netcode for Entities is Unity's awesomely fast toolstack for making multiplayer games with Unity DOTS. Here lets learn how to use it, how to set up a Unity 6 project, install the packages, connect the clients and server, synchronize entities with RPCs and Ghosts, while also looking at the various multiplayer debug tools and the Multiplayer Play Mode package.
Code Monkey

I made a physics engine in C++ just to make Angry Birds! - So throughout my programming journey, I have coded many cool projects from scratch, like 3D renderers, game engines, and even multiplayer. But there is one area that I was never brave enough to touch, and that is physics simulation. So if a car hits me tomorrow, I want to die happy knowing that I basically went through all the basic hard stuff in game development programming.
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Assets

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UnityInspectPlus - This plugin helps you view an object's Inspector in a separate tab/window, copy&paste the values of variables in the Inspector, inspect all variables of an object (including non-serializable and static variables) in an enhanced Debug mode and more.
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Unity-SDF-UI-Toolkit - UI components for Unity that render shapes with outlines, shadows and rounded corners using signed distance functions (SDF). And an SDF texture editor that allows users to edit Bezier curves and convert them to SDF textures within the Unity editor.
TLabAltoh Open Source

TextMeshProMax - The ultimate Unity Text Mesh Pro helper package.
kwan3854 Open Source

unity-texture-toolkit - Texture2D exporter, kind of
esterTion Open Source

Optimized-UI-for-Unity - A package for Unity that is designed to greatly simplify user interface development
TarasK8 Open Source

unimic - Unity's Microphone class, enhanced.
adrenak Open Source

Facepunch.Steamworks - The Steamworks C# implementations I found that were compatible with Unity have worked for a long time. But I hate them all. For a number of different reasons.
Facepunch Open Source

UnityClipboardImage - Lib to read Clipboard Image data in Unity
NullTale Open Source

TrueTrace-Unity-Pathtracer - A High Performance Compute Shader Based Mesh Pathtracer in Unity3d without RT Cores
Pjbomb2 Open Source

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Pbd2d - Unity Position Based Dynamics in two dimensions
andywiecko Open Source

ToyPathTracer - Toy path tracer for my own learning purposes (CPU/GPU, C++/C#, Win/Mac/Wasm, DX11/Metal, also Unity)
aras-p Open Source

Animation-Repathing - Feature rich Unity Editor tool to help streamline the process of changing the paths of animations
hfcRed Open Source

lir - Largest Interior Rectangle implementation in C# for Unity.
Evryway Open Source

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Spotlight

Electro Bop Boxing League - Climb up the ranks and claim your spot among the greatest mechanical fighter in this Atompunk / Electro Swing themed auto-boxer! Outfit your boxer with a variety of parts, abilities, belts and crew upgrades earned through fights or daily events. [You can wishlist it on Steam and follow them on Twitter]
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My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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