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Making a Ground Indicator VFX in Unity Visual Effect Graph - Visual indicators are a staple in most game genres, serving a wide variety of purposes.
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6 ways to start building for Android XR with Unity 6 - Curious about creating something new for Android XR? Here are six ways to get started.
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It’s a wrap: 2024 technical content roundup - So far, we've published more than 35 free e-books, over 40 video tutorials, 8 sample projects, and 50+ articles to help programmers, artists, technical artists, and game designers work as efficiently as possible with Unity.
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How To Build A Conveyor Belt With Houdini & Unity - Technical Artist よしむ shared an article on how these mechanisms work. Please note that the article is in Japanese, but it's still understandable with the help of an auto translator.
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A complete step-by-step marketing strategy for videogames - Marketing for videogames
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Videos

Creating A Replay System In Unity - I've always admired games that do interesting things with replay mechanics. I think fondly back at my days playing Halo 3 and messing around in the theater mode or making sweet action movies from all the sick stunts I pulled off in the director mode for Driver 3 but even more recently one of the most impressive uses of a replay system to me is the one in the Forza series. I adore that if you screw up your perfect line you can just rewind the race there and then. There's no doubt about it replay systems are just cool
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How-to: Build a Functional Ragdoll in Unity! - Join the Unity Professional Training team as they teach the Unity Community how to build, rig and use a functional ragdoll, all with a holiday season twist!
Unity

10 Useful C# Attributes for Intermediate and Advanced Game Devs - C# Attributes are a powerful tool for customizing and extending the behavior of your code, especially in game development where performance and clarity matter most. In this video, we explore attributes that can elevate your projects to the next level. From controlling memory layouts with [StructLayout] and [FieldOffset], to ensuring robust runtime behavior with [NotNull] and [UsedImplicitly], this guide dives into practical use cases for both performance optimization and tooling enhancements.
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I Scraped the Entire Steam Catalog, Here’s the Data - I scraped data from the entire Steam catalog, analyzing over 140,000 games across 40+ data points, including genres, ratings, prices, and player feedback. This video highlights some of the most fascinating insights—driven by curiosity and a passion for exploring data and game development.
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How Balatro Was Made and Why The Creator Expected to Sell Only 6 Copies - This Balatro documentary details the development of roguelike deck-building indie game Balatro and goes behind the scenes of its creation.
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AI Navigation 2.0 - Runtime NavMesh surfaces - In this video we’ll look at spawning in layouts and dynamically creating NavMesh surfaces during runtime, how to check when an agent has reached its destination in a turn-based game, setting area costs and adding AI randomness for multiple characters.
Unity

Unity VFX Graph - Interactive Particles Effect Tutorial - Let's see how to create interactive particles in Unity! Quite useful for effects that need to interact with the player movement for example.
Gabriel Aguiar Prod.

Assets

New Year Sale is LIVE! - Unity’s New Year sale is LIVE and features more than 1500 assets up to 60% off. Plus, shoppers get an additional 10% off on purchases of $120+ with code: NYS24.
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ScriptableObjectCollection - A library to help improve the usability of Unity3D Scriptable Objects by grouping them into a collection and providing easy access through code or user-friendly inspectors!
brunomikoski Open Source

NotionToUnity - A tool to download Notion databases into a Unity scriptable object for use in Unity projects. Handy for game data such as items, localization, skills and more!
CarterGames Open Source

TinkStateSharp - An uncomplicated library for dealing with mutable state in a nice reactive way.
nadako Open Source

VoxReader - A C# library to read .vox files created with MagicaVoxel
sandrofigo Open Source

moon - A lightweight game server framework implemented with Actor Model
sniper00 Open Source

StaticEcs - C# Entity component system framework
Felid-Force-Studios Open Source

UnityJigglePhysics - A unity addon for adding stretchy bouncy physics to bones and meshes.
naelstrof Open Source

VoxelTerrainGenerator - Fully Destructible GPU Compute Volumetric Terrain Generator in Unity HDRP
jedjoud10 Open Source

VfxGraphAssets - Unity VFX Graph custom asset library
keijiro Open Source

Urp_ssr - Screen space reflection for Unity 2022 and Unity6
EricHu33 Open Source

UnityCommandLineInterface - A lightweight unity command line console system
529324416 Open Source

GameDev Market - Best of 2024 Bundle - 75+ assets to create endlessly. Game developers, build your worlds with this bundle of 75+ assets from GameDev Market! This massive collection features a diverse range of high-quality assets, including detailed tilesets, unique character sprites, huge music and sound effects packs, and so much more. Perfect for indie developers and seasoned studios alike, this bundle has everything you need to help bring your game to life, and help support The Michael J. Fox Foundation with your purchase!
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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.
yasirkula Open Source

UnityDynamicPanels - Draggable, resizable, dockable and stackable UI panel solution for Unity 3D
yasirkula Open Source

massive-ecs - Sparse set ECS with rollbacks. Unity package.
nilpunch Open Source

UnityMapGenerator - Procedural Stages replaces conventional static terrains with procedurally generated environments, offering a fresh and varied experience with each stage while striving to maintain the familiar feel of vanilla stages.
Lawlzee Open Source

serializereferenceeditor - Unity SerializeReference Editor
elmortem Open Source

Dynamic Floating Text (FREE) - Dynamic Floating Text provides you with the ability to create customisable floating text effects, useful for combat, dialogue and more. Uses TextMeshPro and supports both 2D and 3D.
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Steamworks.NET - Steamworks wrapper for Unity / C#
rlabrecque Open Source

Shop up to 50% off Gamemaster Audio - Publisher Sale - Gamemaster Audio is best known for creating professional, high-quality audio assets for game developers. Each package is designed to help save time and money and improve the audio quality of your project. PLUS get Punch Sound Pack for FREE with code GAMEMASTERAUDIO
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Animated-Cursor-Unity - Create an animated cursor in Unity
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Spotlight

RoboSamurai - RoboSamurai is a 3rd-person fast-paced sword-fighting action/slasher game about Nix: a robot mechanic turned katana-wielding fighter. Set in a cyberpunk dystopian city filled with corruption and tyrannical corporations waiting for him to let his guard down.

[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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