Issue #266 - Shaders, Testing, Trailers, and more
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Keep the new year going strong with more game dev tutorials and helpful content. Enjoy!
Unit Testing for Unity Developers - Let's face it Unity developers — you write buggy code. I write buggy code. AI writes buggy. Many software engineers consider unit testing as the key to catching bugs early and preventing regressions. But do they work for Unity developers?
DEV Community
Learn OpenUSD - Accelerate OpenUSD workflows with a free curriculum for developers and 3D practitioners.
NVIDIA
Deadlines - Game Conference Guide - Deadlines for events All upcoming (and past) deadlines for showcase sessions, awards, expo, festival, competition, networking and other events targeted towards indies, studios & individuals.
Game Conference Guide
Steam Vs People Algorithms – How To Market A Game - Often I will collect data from hundreds of game devs and I can see a very clear cause and effect relationship between an action a game developer takes, the Steam algorithm responding, and then traffic and wishlists increasing.
howtomarketagame.com
Reverse Engineering Call Of Duty Anti-Cheat - I’ve been reversing Black Ops Cold War for a while now, and I’ve finally decided to share my research regarding the user-mode anti-cheat inside the game. It’s not my intention to shame or promote cheating/bypassing of the anti-cheat, so I’ve redacted a few things.
ssno
Dissolve shader: VFX's bread and butter - If there is one shader trick anyone should learn about when creating visual effects, it's dissolving, as it is very versatile and allows you to do many effects with just 1 shader.
Thibaud Goiffon
Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction (2009) - Inform 7 gets a lot of attention for its English-like syntax. I'm not going to talk about the natural-language aspects of I7. I'm going to talk about the underlying programming model, the system of rules and rulebooks.
eblong.com
Videos
How a Super Smash Bros. Fighter is Designed - Super Smash Bros. features 89 different characters from across gaming history. How does director Masahiro Sakurai keep them cohesive and balanced while honouring their individual legacies? Let's find out.
Game Maker's Toolkit
You can (FINALLY) Use Shadergraph for UI - Unity Health Bar Tutorial - This flew under the radar for me for a little bit, but I was SUPER STOKED to see that Shadergraph (for a little while now) actually has support for UI, so now it's much easier to make beautiful UI art using shaders. So in this tutorial we'll make an animated (and fully functional) health bar in Unity!
Sasquatch B Studios
Building the Wobbly Physics of Crunda - Usually feedback is scaled to how important the input or action is but we can tune this curve so that in a high juice game even small inputs can produce large amounts of feedback to the player
Dananabread
How to Create a Level Loading Animation in Unity 6 (Tutorial 2025) - Learn how to create an awesome level loading animation in Unity 6! In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to create a dynamic falling blocks effect that brings your game levels to life when they are getting loaded.
JD Dev
Game Dev is Problem Solving - I want to talk about problem solving. In Game Dev or more specifically gamedev as problem solving
ADHD Game Dev
This is how we make Trailers at Coffee Stain Studios - Today we're breaking down the entire process of how we make our trailers here at Coffee Stain Studios!
Coffee Stain Studios
Recreating Mario Party's Board | Mix and Jam - Time to take a look at the Mario Party boards! What is your favorite game in the franchise?
Mix and Jam
AI Groups And Formations in Unity C# - Game AI Mastery Part 2 - Learn how to create groups of NPCs that move in various formations in Unity 2022.3. This is the second episode to the AI Mastery series.
Zeus Game Assets
Serialize Methods Like a PRO in Unity and Unlock NEW Possibilities! - Learn how to create a powerful Serialized Callback System in Unity! This tutorial dives deep into Unity’s serialization and reflection capabilities to dynamically store, rebuild, and invoke methods at runtime. We’ll walk through the implementation of the SerializedCallback class, a flexible parameter handling system, and a custom property drawer that provides an intuitive inspector UI for method selection and parameter editing.
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Assets
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Enhance Your Game Development with over 50 Free CC0 Sound Packs. All CC0 and free to use however you want. No newsletter sign-ups or ads. - Hey game developers! I wanted to share an incredible resource I recently created: SignatureSounds.org. Offering a variety of free and CC0-licensed sound packs that can significantly enhance the audio experience of your games.
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unity-xcode-builder - A GitHub Action to build, archive, and upload Unity exported Xcode projects.
buildalon Open Source
Unity-Theme - Create palettes of colors and components for change specific color on a specific visual element. Very useful to UI.
IvanMurzak Open Source
NoiseShader - Noise shader library for Unity
keijiro Open Source
unity-package-tools - A set of developer tools to make it easier to create and distribute packages for the native Unity Package Manager.
jeffcampbellmakesgames Open Source
unity-plugin-spritesheet-3000 - Custom pipeline plugin about how to make work together Adobe Photoshop's files with Unity Engine's sprites
am1goo Open Source
Editor-Screenshot - A unity editor script for taking screenshots in the editor.
rurre Open Source
unity-webgl - An easy solution for embedding Unity WebGL builds in webApp or Vue.js project, with two-way communication between your webApp and Unity.
Marinerer Open Source
SimpleSignIn - A set of assets for Unity to authenticate users on different platforms with OAuth 2.0
hippogamesunity Open Source
The Complete Learn To Code 2025 Bundle - Learn to code games like a pro Achieve your New Year's resolution and learn to code! This comprehensive curriculum will help you level up your skills with courses like Unreal Engine 5.5 Game Developer's Toolbox - Essential Templates and Assets, Godot 4 Game Creator's Pack - Essential Templates for Instant Game Development, and many more. Our collection of 40+ courses includes Humble Bundle-exclusive content available only to our community. Familiarize yourself with popular tools like Python and Unreal Engine, all while supporting Direct Relief with your purchase!
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Anime-Speed-Lines - Post-processing effect to procedurally generate a anime/manga-style vignette of lines typically used to portray speed or surprise.
MirzaBeig Open Source
Inputs-Manager - A new customizable and dynamic Input alternative for Unity, based on the New Input System
BxB-Studio Open Source
com.utilities.audio - A simple package for audio extensions and utilities for Unity (UPM)
RageAgainstThePixel Open Source
RTSCameraController-Cinemachine - A RTS style Camera Controller for Unity 3D's Cinemachine system.
Nickk888SAMP Open Source
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Animate - Animate tweening engine for Unity
sttz Open Source
ProjectBabble - An open-source mouth tracking method for VR
Project-Babble Open Source
unity-gauges - A simple utility script for creating gauges to maintain stats such as health, energy, stamina, ect.
ashblue Open Source
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Spotlight
In Sink: A Co-op Escape Adventure - Work together to solve puzzles and escape a desert island in this stylized multiplayer co-op adventure. Success requires more than just you and your partner thinking alike - you'll have to communicate and stay In Sink to overcome the challenges ahead.
[You can get it on Steam]
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My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam
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