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Game Dev Digest — Issue #327 - Retro Graphics, Render Graph, Spring Sale and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:57:42 +0000

Issue #327 - Retro Graphics, Render Graph, Spring Sale and more

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Creating fake 3D characters in a 2D engine - How I've created a somewhat 3D looking top-down shooter without using a 3D engine.
remvst.substack.com

Game Devs Explain The Tricks Involved With Letting You Pause - Developers provide some insight into how they all make games stop and start when you press a button
kotaku.com

Indie Game Subscription Service for Developers | Earn Revenue with Indie Pass - Indie Pass helps developers earn revenue and reach new players through a curated game subscription service. Join a growing network of indie titles and expand your audience.
indiepass.com

A Style Guide for NES-inspired Pixel Art in your Retro Game - In computer graphics, there is a concept called the “uncanny valley”.
eirifu.wordpress.com

How solo dev SlugGlove built 102 million spell combinations in Unity for Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times - Learn how solo developer SlugGlove used prefab variants to build a modular magic system with 102 million spell combinations for their RPG, Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times.
unity.com

Videos

Migrating to Render Graph: Understanding the Render Graph Samples - Part 1 - This video provides an introductory walkthrough of the Render Graph API in Unity’s Universal Render Pipeline (URP) using the Render Graph samples.
Unity

So you want to make an Incremental Game? - My tips, tricks, and things to consider when trying to make a successful incremental game.
Aarimous

How To Know If A Game Is Worth Making - Should I Make This Game?
Acrylic Pixel Games

Volumetric Lighting in Pixel Art?! | Pixel Perfect - Clouds, Godrays and Volumetrics Ep.4 Pixel Perfect ~ We'll explore shader programming and coding techniques within Unity
Red Giraffe

Getting Started with Addressables - Unity Addressables makes it easy to manage and load your game assets asynchronously.
Unity

There's a Better Way to Organize Unity Game Actions - Command pattern, undo system, memory allocation - a different way to architect Unity C# code.
Gamedev Engine Room

Radial Menu Systems in Unity | Shapes, Gradients & Interaction - In this video, we build a radial menu in Unity using UI Toolkit, drawing the wheel with the Painter API and taking advantage of gradient features introduced in Unity 6.3. We walk through the math that drives the layout, segment spacing, and input selection, then layer icons and interaction on top to create a fully functional menu.
git-amend

Learn Showcase: Get Started with Shader Graph - Want to dive into Shader Graph but don’t know where to start?
Unity

Why Bad Art Makes Great Games - NVIDIA ultra core ray tracing 8k max AI powered buzzword buzzword is cool and all, but I am growing tired of the endless pursuit of realism. This is a love letter to low-poly and stylized games, and why they tend to stick with me way more than the most realistic ones ever do.
Juniper Dev

Debugging Across Time and Platforms: The Power of Determinism - In this talk you will learn how determinism, and in particular cross-platform determinism, can help game developers implement better tooling for recording player sessions and reproducing issues. From running fast math operations on different CPU architectures, to managing deterministic multi-threading models, and dealing with compiler bugs, learn practical tips to implement cross-platform determinism in your game.
AI and Games Conference

Eight Level Design Guidelines - These are the most important details to remember to include in every map.
Timothy Cain

Assets

Spring Sale & Flash Deals! - 50% off popular assets + up to 95% off Flash Deals
Unity Affiliate

MIGHTY TASKS - Kanban, Gantt, Tasks, Mindmaps, Users and more! - Stop alt-tabbing to web boards while your due date burns. Mighty Tasks is a ruthless in-editor command center. Anchor the schedule to your game, execute the backlog, and take your weekend back.
ShrinkRay Entertainment Affiliate

unity-texture-packer - Utility to combine color channels from different textures into a single output.
andydbc Open Source

Unity-Game-Utilities - A modular Unity utility package providing reusable runtime systems, editor tooling, and experimental gameplay modules editor utilities (events, save system, extensions, projectiles, currency, and more.
mRemAiello Open Source

Unity-Package-CoSequencer - A package allowing easy Coroutine sequencing through both Inspector and code
Kmiecis Open Source

funplay-unity-mcp - The Most Advanced MCP Server for Unity Editor with execute_code, prompts/resources, input simulation, screenshots, and play mode automation.
FunplayAI Open Source

Unity-Skills - AI automation skills specifically designed for Unity
Besty0728 Open Source

Mathfs - Expanded Math Functionality for Unity
FreyaHolmer Open Source

Yogurt - Async Managed Component-Oriented framework for Unity
Hoodrij Open Source

LOD-generator - Batch LOD generation and FBX export for Unreal Engine and Unity — Blender addon
Colosyn Open Source

unity-isometric-pixel-pipeline - Pixel art isometric render pipeline for Unity 6 URP — toon shading, GPU grass, outline, sharp upscale
bababuyyy Open Source

Unity-AI-ProBuilder - AI-powered 3D modeling tools for Unity ProBuilder. Enables AI assistants to create and manipulate editable meshes through natural language commands.
IvanMurzak Open Source

AudioConductor - Audio Conductor is a tool that enhances the usability of audio features (AudioClip/AudioSource) in Unity, providing greater convenience in managing and controlling audio assets.
CyberAgentGameEntertainment Open Source

Wars & Wastelands Game Dev Bundle - Wow! Warzone assault assets await within—pay what you want for the Wars & Wastelands Game Dev Bundle and help support Girls Who Code!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Asset Store MEGA 15 - Don’t wait—pay what you want for an elite collection of visual and audio assets from the best devs in the biz with our latest Mega Bundle!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Spotlight

Davy Jones' Deckhand - Master melee-based card combat, explore an open ocean by surviving roguelike voyages, and unleash outrageous counter-attack chains in this nostalgic, swashbuckling adventure. Will you break free from Davy Jones' locker?

[You can wishlist it on Steam and visit their website]
Cass Bay Games

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #326 - UI Toolkit, C#, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:17:25 +0000

Issue #326 - UI Toolkit, C#, and more

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Why Nightdive Focuses on 'How You Remember It' in Video Game Remasters - Nightdive’s Grover Wimberley explains how the studio balances nostalgia and modernization, works with modding communities, and chooses which classic games to remaster.
80.lv

How a Solo Developer is Building an Authentic CRPG in Unity - Learn how Revenge of the Firstborn uses Unity, 3.5 SRD rules, modular architecture, and AI-assisted tools to build a modern CRPG. This interview explores combat systems, performance optimization, prefab workflows, and solo dev strategies.
80.lv

C# in Unity 2026: Features Most Developers Still Don’t Use - The Unity engine has evolved a lot in modern days, but I noticed a trend where Unity developers are still using "outdated" techniques when writing their C# code.
darkounity.com

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon - Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999).
larstofus.com

Videos

7 Reasons UI Toolkit Is Better Than UGUI - UI Toolkit in Unity has come a long way, but a lot of developers are still sticking with uGUI.
Game Dev Guide

Survival Building System in Unity (Sockets + Snapping) - In this video, we build a clean and flexible survival building system in Unity inspired by games like V Rising, where modular pieces such as floors, walls, and doors snap together using sockets. We focus on the core concepts—piece types, socket rules, snapping logic, and placement—so you can understand how the system works and extend it in your own projects. If you’re interested in building systems for survival or sandbox games, this is a solid foundation to start from.
git-amend

Migrating to Render Graph - Render Graph Samples Part 1 - Kick off our new Render Graph video series and learn how to migrate your project to the new Render Graph system in Unity 6 with the Universal Render Pipeline.
Unity

You're Not Using C# Events To Their Full Potential - C# events in Unity are more powerful than you think. Most developers never go beyond subscribe and unsubscribe.
Gamedev Engine Room

Path to CoreCLR - In this GDC 2026 session, Joe Valenzuela, Senior Director of Unity’s Core Engine team, gives a whirlwind overview of the most anticipated updates on the roadmap.
Unity

Mark LaCroix: On GDC, Indie Success, and the value of Community - @Aarimous and Mark LaCoix sit down to chat about how GDC went this year, his work on Blippo+, and the value we have both found in game dev community.
Scope Creepers: A Game Dev Podcast

Lighting In Unity in 10 Minutes/1 Hour/1 Day | Clocked - In a hurry to light a scene? Got a little time to spare? Join Sarah and Esteban as they showcase techniques for creating dynamically lit interior and exterior scenes using Unity's suite of lighting tools in this episode of Clocked!
Unity

Big News for the S&Box Game Engine - S&box, Facepunch's spiritual successor to Gary's Mod (and future competitor to Unreal Engine for Fortnite and Roblox) just released two major announcements.
Gamefromscratch

Assets

MESH COLLIDER OPTIMIZER – Advanced Animation Collider & BlendShape Colliders (50% Off) - A powerful Unity Editor tool that automatically analyzes, optimizes, and rebuilds Mesh Colliders in a few clicks reducing physics cost, improving performance, and streamlining your workflow. 50% Off Launch Discount
Unity Affiliate

Shop up to 50% off Hovl Studio - Hovl Studio specializes in premium AAA-quality VFX for Unity — spells, projectiles, explosions, shaders, and materials. Clean, optimized, and production-ready assets trusted by developers to elevate their games instantly. PLUS get Map Track Markers VFX for FREE with code HOVL2026
Unity Affiliate

CALVINBALL - All sorts of random publicly-available information, assets, scripts, and more.
trentpolack Open Source

net.peeweek.gameplay-ingredients - Gameplay Ingredients for your Unity Games - A collection of runtime and editor scripts that ease simple tasks while making games and prototypes.
peeweek Open Source

GenEvent - A high-performance, 0GC and attribute-based Event library for both .Net and Unity, which using code generation and without runtime reflection
Puring103 Open Source

GridForge-Unity - A high-performance, deterministic spatial grid management system for simulations and game development.
mrdav30 Open Source

Neuro - Data serialisation and management toolset for Unity
Ninjadini Open Source

UnityDataTools - Experimental tools and libraries for reading and analyzing Unity data files.
Unity-Technologies Open Source

DataBinding - Data binding for Unity gameobjects. If you like MVVM User Interfaces, this is where to start.
JochenHeckl Open Source

unity-history-window - A simple selection history window for Unity
acoppes Open Source

UnityRuntimeTransformHandles - Runtime Transform Handles for Unity
manaporkun Open Source

UGizmo - Highly efficient gizmo drawer for Unity
harumas Open Source

Color-Changer-For-Unity - Non-Destructive Real-time Texture Recoloring Tool for Unity
puk06 Open Source

NovaShader - Multi-functional shader for the Particle System that supports Universal Render Pipeline (URP) of Unity.
CyberAgentGameEntertainment Open Source

RSUV-Bit-Packer - Framework facilitating the use of Renderer Shader User Value (RSUV) in Unity.
FredMoreau Open Source

unity-camera-and-input - A camera controller and input wrapper
insthync Open Source

RadioUnityStream - Stream live internet radio in Unity using pure C# supports Icecast/SHOUTcast and HLS streams with no native dependencies
sjbmcg Open Source

HTML-to-UGUI-Baker - Convert AI-generated HTML prototypes into Unity UGUI interfaces with automated workflows for multi-resolution support and seamless JSON integration.
mrrizzs Open Source

UnityStarter - A production-ready, modular Unity framework with UE-inspired Gameplay Ability System, zero-GC infrastructure, and hot-update support. Battle-tested, DI-friendly, and cross-platform optimized.
MaiKuraki Open Source

KrasCore-Mosaic - Mosaic is a Next Gen Runtime Unity ECS Tilemap solution, heavily inspired by LDtk, built using Entity Component System
Fire-Aalt Open Source

VNovelizer - An Excel-Driven Unity Visual Novel Plugin
Fakecorps Open Source

unity-cli-loop - Your Unity project's AI autopilot. Compile, test, debug, repeat—until it just works.
hatayama Open Source

StaticEcs - C# Hierarchical Inverted Bitmap ECS framework
Felid-Force-Studios Open Source

Graphlit - A node shader editor for Toon and PBR shaders
z3y Open Source

I've created over 150 light cookies for use in Unity (CC0, public domain) - Hey everyone! I've created a package that includes over 150 light cookies which work perfectly in Unity.
kenney.nl

Asset Store MEGA 15 - Don’t wait—pay what you want for an elite collection of visual and audio assets from the best devs in the biz with our latest Mega Bundle!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Massive Game Dev Asset Collection - Say hello to a massive library of game dev assets all designed to save you time and money on your next project—these assets pack a punch!
H
umble Bundle Affiliate

Spotlight

Among Giants - Among Giants is an open-world game where the player gets to explore the planet at their own pace, deciphering the alien language to get a better understanding of what has happened to humanity by hunting down colossal giants that roam the world and extracting their final memories.

[You can get it now for Meta Quest, or visit their website]
kmonkey

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #325 - UI, Worflows, Patterns and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:00:15 +0000

Issue #325 - UI, Worflows, Patterns and more

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Custom Meshes in UI (BIRP & URP) - Hi all, Here is how to render custom meshes in Unity UI (Overlay). Actual custom meshes, not a rendertexture :).
Minions Art

Here is how I made the "Liquid in a bottle"-effect in my game. - [video tutorial]
old.reddit.com

Festivals – How To Market A Game - [see a list of upcoming festivals to apply to]
howtomarketagame.com

How to Write a Sentiment Report — Victoria Tran - Reddit, Twitter (X), Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, reviews, press writeups, TikTok, Tumblr ahhhHHHHHHHH oh god there are so many places someone can talk about your game.
victoriatran.com

Tutorial: How to create graphics like in Disco Elysium - I posted a 2.5D render showcase this week. Developers asked for the implementation details. This guide explains the Camera Projection Mapping and Shader Graph setup.
old.reddit.com

Scaling Unity Workflows for Medium To Large Projects - Learn how Mega Cat Studios uses Unity’s core modularity, Assembly Definitions, automated tests, and Git best practices to keep medium and large projects maintainable and performant.
unity.com

Best Practices For Bringing Your Unity Game To Steam Deck - Josh Steinhauer-Li joined us to discuss the challenges of optimizing Ardenfall, an Elder Scrolls-inspired indie RPG, for the Steam Deck, as well as implementing controller support, while also sharing valuable advice.
80.lv

Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter - This blog post and the companion video both explain an erosion technique I’ve worked on over the past eight months.
blog.runevision.com

Videos

25 Unity UI Tips to Speed Up Your Work (and enjoy it a lot more) - In this tutorial I'm sharing 25 Unity UGUI tips to speed up your UI design! From hotkeys and editor settings to layout tricks and working with presets: these tips will save you time and make building Unity UI a lot less frustrating. Whether you're a beginner or have been using Unity for a while, I'm sure you'll find something new here!.
Christina Creates Games

How To Make RAGDOLLS in Unity (INSANELY EASY) - Today we will go through how to create ragdolls in Unity the EASY way—and actually use them in your game.
Game Dev Pilot

I Broke Down All of GDC 2026 So You Don't Have To - I went through all of the GDC data for #gamedevelopers and shared my thoughts on the industry trends that are affecting #gamedev.
Tim Ruswick

Transparent pixels from scratch, 80s style - When you don't have specialized sprite hardware, you have to do all the drawing and animation manually.
Coco Town

Game AI's Existential Crisis (Part 1) - Game AI, the practice of implementing artificial intelligence to craft the experience of players in video games, is facing an existential crisis.
AI and Games

Alpherior : On finding post launch Success and Steam Bundles - @Aarimous and Alpherior sit down to chat about the the success of his first game Genome Guardians and how he's approaching releasing his 3rd commercial game
Scope Creepers: A Game Dev Podcast

How I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 - I built a custom open-world engine for the N64. In this video, I break down how I achieved a seamless, massive world with zero loading screens on N64 hardware.
James Lambert

I Built a Physically-Modeled Engine Sound System for Games - Custom engine sound systems for your game.
AK Audio

Fretless Music System - Join us for a livestream with the team behind the RPG Fretless. You’ll learn about their music system with insights on their development journey.
Unity

Building Scene Transitions in Unity (Without Singletons) - In this episode of the Unity Scene Persistence series, we build a clean and scalable scene transition system for metroidvanias
Night Run Studio

Speed Up Your Workflow In Unity With Scene Collections - This episode dives into building a Scene Collection Tool in Unity — essentially a simple editor button that lets you quickly find and load multiple scenes
Game Dev Guide

What's New in 6.4 - Unity 6.4 is here with workflow improvements, graphics updates, optimization features, and more. In this video, we cover what’s new in Unity 6.4, including B...
Unity

Invisible By Design - Devcom 2025 - Great UX in games is often invisible — but essential. In this session, Lionel Cornelius Jr. shares his wealth of knowledge of how his work shapes the way pla...
Lionel Cornelius Jr

The Observer Pattern Wasn't Enough. Can This Pattern Fix It? - Tight coupling in Unity C# is a problem the Observer pattern alone can't fully solve.
Gamedev Engine Room

High-Performance Animations With LitMotion - LitMotion is a modern tweening library for Unity built around a different idea — instead of animating components directly, it generates values you can bind
git-amend

Assets

Bundle Collection Sale - up to 70% off - Already bundled for value, now up to $200 off. Shop full collections across 3D, tools, audio, and more. Plus, get an additional 10% off all purchases of $100+ with code SPRING10.
Unity Affiliate

Asset Store MEGA 15 - Don’t wait—pay what you want for an elite collection of visual and audio assets from the best devs in the biz with our latest Mega Bundle!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Shop up to 50% off SwishSwoosh - SwishSwoosh is a project started by MadRooster Game Audio Lab, a team of sound designers, composers and software engineers creating tailored sound effects and music for video games. If you got lost in the pile of thousands of audio files all over the net, you are in the right place. PLUS get Sci-Fi Weapons: Bullet Hell Sound Effects Pack for FREE with code SWISHSWOOSH
Unity Affiliate

I made a list of great, free assets that might not be super... - Hi! I've recently gone through many of the free assets on the asset store and had a lot of fun with the things I found (and tested). Here's a...
old.reddit.com

AdvancedTerrainErosion - Advanced Terrain Erosion heightmap generator for Unity + Burst
lpmitchell Open Source

Rish - R[eact]ish UI system for Unity
clockworklabs Open Source

Unity-Skills - AI automation skills specifically designed for Unity
Besty0728 Open Source

Ibralogue - Robust, extensible dialogue framework for the Unity game engine
Ibralogue Open Source

TypeSelector-for-Unity - Effortlessly select derived types in the Unity Inspector to streamline and accelerate your project development.
FelipeIshimine Open Source

Unity-Textures-Hunter - Provides summary of all textures and atlases in Unity project
AlexeyPerov Open Source

unity-cli-loop - Your Unity project's AI autopilot. Compile, test, debug, repeat—until it just works.
hatayama Open Source

Unity_Font_Replacer - Unity_Font_Replacer
snowyegret23 Open Source

Color-Changer-For-Unity - Non-Destructive Real-time Texture Recoloring Tool for Unity
puk06 Open Source

unity-control-protocol - Rust-based Unity Control CLI + C# bridge layer. Exposes editor, debugging and lifecycle structured tool access outside of Unity. Highly recommended for heavy agentic development workflows. - mflRev...
mflRevan Open Source

UIManager - Unity UI system with layers, transitions, window groups, and strongly typed window IDs — built for complex in-game UI.
brunomikoski Open Source

splashedit - Contribute to psxsplash/splashedit development by creating an account on GitHub.
psxsplash Open Source

Audio Machine Pro - Easy SFX and music - Get the Audio Machine Pro - Easy SFX and music package from hugojobe and speed up your game development process. Find this & other Audio options on the Unity Asset Store. [Lite version available as well]
assetstore.unity.com Affiliate

Spotlight

Go! Go! Mister Chickums - GO! GO! MISTER CHICKUMS is a fun, classic single-screen platformer inspired by arcade hits from the 80s. Playable in single player or couch co-op mode for 2 players. Are you ready to take over the leaderboards?

[You can get it now on Steam]
com8com1 Software

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #324 - Steam, DLC, Patterns, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:02:29 +0000

Issue #324 - Steam, DLC, Patterns, and more

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Two Steam games had a similar idea, but only one is a top seller - Retro Rewind and Rewind 99 are both VHS rental store management games vying for attention on Steam, but only one of them exploded on Valve's platform
polygon.com

How Little Nightmares VR is Powered by Unity, Lighting, and Design - Iconik, the game development studio behind Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes, breaks down how they adapted cinematic horror, environmental storytelling, and performance-heavy visuals for immersive VR across multiple platforms using Unity.
80.lv

4 Hidden Costs of Traditional 3D Tools - Traditional 3D tools hide costs in developer bottlenecks, long iteration cycles, and complex stacks. See how Unity Studio helps teams save time and budget.
unity.com

Building on the Social Layer of Games: What’s New from GDC 2026 - At GDC 2026, Discord gives developers more ways to close the gap between connection and play.
discord.com

How voxels enabled a juicy gameplay loop in Donkey Kong Bananza - Nintendo's Kenta Motokura and Tatsuya Kurihara discuss the relationship between voxel-based environments and gameplay in Donkey Kong Bananza.
gamedeveloper.com

Videos

The Architecture Behind Roombattle's DLC Content Loader - DLC system in Unity — how do you add new content without breaking your game? In this video, we break down how an indie team from our Discord community built ...
git-amend

Pyrite64: An AMAZING and POWERFUL Nintendo 64 Game Engine! - Pyrite 64 is a incredible piece of software... you can basically think of it like a light weight Unity game engine... for the Nintendo 64!
Gamefromscratch

How I Created Pixel Art Oceans | Pixel Perfect - Stylized Water Ep.3 Pixel Perfect ~ We'll explore shader programming and coding techniques within Unity, perfect for game devs looking to enhance their projects
Red Giraffe

Unity 6.4 is OUT - What's NEW?! - Unity 6.4 is here! In this video I cover all the new features, updates, and improvements in the latest support release. From Entities as a core package to built-in Project Auditor and awesome upgrades for URP, 2D, and more—let’s break down what’s new and what it means for your projects!
Code Monkey

The Man Who Solved Indie Game Development - In this episode of the Dev Dream podcast, I sit down with legendary indie game developer Edmund McMillen, creator of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy, to talk about the design philosophy behind his newest game, Mewgenics.
Dev Dream Pod with Blake Gocey

The Observer Pattern Fixed My Unity Code. Then Broke It. - Unity's Observer pattern is everywhere - but most tutorials skip the part where it starts hurting you.
Gamedev Engine Room

Assets

Shop up to 50% off SURIYUN - Publisher Sale - Suriyun Studio offers stylized anime characters and cute monsters with built-in animations, plus a Unity-ready MMO template designed for quality and efficient workflows. PLUS get Pspsps Monkey for FREE with code SURIYUN2026
Unity Affiliate

FAB.com Free Assets - Stone Golem, Scrapopolis Steampunk Village, Advanced Universal Spawner
fab.com

FlowTween.git - Custom Tween Tool for Unity
AhmedGD1 Open Source

Unity-Agent-For-Claude-Code - This is Claude Code Tool for Unity Shader
KULEEEE Open Source

Medicine - A set of source generators and utilities for writing fast, simple and robust code in Unity.
apkd Open Source

Lua-CSharp - High performance Lua interpreter implemented in C# for .NET and Unity
nuskey8 Open Source

UnityHFSM - A fast, tried-and-tested hierarchical finite state machine library for Unity, designed to be easy to use yet powerful without compromising performance.
Inspiaaa Open Source

VisualStateMachineV2 - A Unity C# visual node-based state machine editor. Design, visualize, and manage finite state machines (FSM) directly in the Unity Editor. UPM package.
PaulNonatomic Open Source

ServiceLocator - A Unity C# Scriptable Object based Service Locator. The precursor to ServiceKit.
PaulNonatomic Open Source

unigame.buildpipeline - Command based scriptable build pipeline for Unity 3D
UnioGame Open Source

ShaderLabFormatter - An VSCode plugin for formatting of Unity ShaderLab
litefeel Open Source

UMVC - UMVC - Model-View-Controller Generator built for Unity
loic-lopez Open Source

UnityPathTracing - A real-time path tracing rendering system built in Unity URP
Kuan-Mi Open Source

Pixel-Adventure-Unity - 2D Game Engine - Unity game
StephenSouth13 Open Source

MercuryMessaging - A framework and encompassing toolkit to facilitate nonspatial communication in the Unity game engine.
ColumbiaCGUI Open Source

SharedMeta - Democratizing client-server game development. A deterministic framework bridging Unity and Microsoft Orleans. Write game logic once in C# - it runs on the server (Orleans grains) and replays on the...
CoreGameIO Open Source

SimplyShip - Simply Ship - The Easy Setup Unity Build Server
DanielSerebro Open Source

unity-cli - Control Unity Editor from the command line. No MCP, no Python, no dependencies — just a single binary.
youngwoocho02 Open Source

unity-cli-loop - Your Unity project's AI autopilot. Compile, test, debug, repeat—until it just works.
hatayama Open Source

NeoxiderTools - Ready-to-use Unity tools that integrate easily into your project. 150+ modules for fast game development without unnecessary complexity.
NeoXider Open Source

unity-mcp-pro-plugin - 147 AI tools for Unity game development via MCP (Model Context Protocol). Connect Claude, Cursor, and AI assistants to your Unity editor.
youichi-uda Open Source

unity-mcp-server - Unity MCP Server — 268 tools for AI-assisted game development. Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client to Unity Editor & Unity Hub. Scene management, GameObjects, components, builds, profilin...
AnkleBreaker-Studio Open Source

Unity-URP-Volumetric-Light - Unity package for versions 2022.3 and Unity 6. Adds support to render volumetric lighting for both the main and additional lights in URP. Compatible with URP render graph in Unity 6 and above. - Cr...
CristianQiu Open Source

Unity-BMFontImporter - A Unity script that imports custom bitmap fonts from AngelCode BMFont files, enabling efficient support for large character sets (e.g., CJK fonts). It extends the Unity Default Font system by pre-g...
Yuuenn Open Source

TonkersTableTopia - WYSIWYG table layout system for Unity UGUI. Build and edit tables visually merge, split, insert, delete, and resize rows or columns with zebra striping and pixel or percent sizing. Works in edit an...
TonkersTinkers Open Source

CustomToneMappingURP - Custom tone mapping extension for URP
aki-null Open Source

Assembly Architect - I made a unity asset to help visualize and manage assembly relationships, fix assembly related errors, and estimate compile times.
old.reddit.com

Simply Ship - The painless, portable, and powerful automated build system for Unity developers.
danielserebro.github.io

Supreme 3 - Best of Unity and Unreal Assets - An environmental asset bundle frenzy Dive into the latest asset collection that offers the widest range of stylized towns, buildings, and more with The Supreme 3 Best of Unity and Unreal Assets Bundle! Save time and money by accessing this pro-quality library of 75+ asset sets. Unlock exclusive terrain-scattering tools for awesome volcanic land environments, add color with retro Pop Art living spaces, give your starfighter’s technicians a realistic sci-fi engineering bay, and so much more. Get the environmental assets you need to help bring your game to life and help support Girls Who Code with your purchase!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Spotlight

Trip to the Core - Forge insane combos by fusing powers & enhancers in this team-based roguelike deckbuilder. 15 unique characters with 150+ equipment combinations!

[You can wishlist it on Steam]
Llamaplay

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #323 - Unity Studio, Unity 6.4, AI, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:23:40 +0000

Issue #323 - Unity Studio, Unity 6.4, AI, and more

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Running Unity Tests at Warp Speed with .NET - Run Unity tests in milliseconds without the Editor. Boost iteration speed for teams and enable AI agents to autonomously verify code with headless .NET.
gamedev.center

Unity Studio: Web-Based No-Code Design Editor for 3D Experiences - Unity Studio is an intuitive web-based, no-code 3D editor that lets designers, trainers, and engineers build and share interactive applications.
unity.com

How To Successfully Pitch Your Indie Game to ID@Xbox on Xbox - Guy Richards, Global Director of ID@Xbox, discusses the program’s evolution, supporting indie developers, improving discoverability, and helping studios ship games across Xbox, PC, cloud, and handheld platforms.
80.lv

Unity Extends Official Support for Steam, SteamOS, & Linux - Unity will add a native solution for bringing games to Valve's Steam platform and introduce targeted enhancements to the engine's Linux runtime.
80.lv

Unity 6.4 is now available - Get access to the latest Engine version today by downloading Unity 6.4, and find everything included in this release in our “What’s New” documentation.
discussions.unity.com

Cesium for Unity Brings 3D Geospatial Apps to the Web - Learn how the new Cesium for Unity update lets you deploy high-resolution, 3D geospatial applications directly to any web browser with Unity's web platform.
unity.com

Esoteric Ebb: Tackling the challenge of interactive writing - Christoffer Bodegård, developer of the massive, nonlinear CRPG Esoteric Ebb, unpacks the eight-year process for interactive writing, managing player choices and designing a complex, dialog-based narrative spanning 50 hours of gameplay.
unity.com

Plan Your First 3D Project: 10 Questions for No-Code 3D Design Tools - Learn 10 questions to ask before your first interactive 3D project, covering goals, audience, assets, and tools, with examples using no-code 3D design tools.
unity.com

I Researched UI Toolkit So You Don't Have To - For a long time, discussions around Unity UI have been framed in overly simplistic terms: ease of use, familiarity, or feature parity. That framing made sense in an era where most projects shipped relatively static menus and lightweight HUDs. It does not hold up anymore.
old.reddit.com

I made a tutorial for a Toon Smoke shader a while ago, but admittedly it could be tricky to follow because the concepts involved are a little advanced. - It's a little hard to find resources on the concepts needed to make something like this work
old.reddit.com

Game Forecast - A Node-Based Forecast tool for game developpers.
gameforecast.app

Videos

Coding Adventure: Synthesizing Musical Instruments - Let's try smashing some sine waves together and see what sort of sounds we can create
Sebastian Lague

Chris Zukowski: On why Devs Fail, Steam Marketing, and Next Fest - @Aarimous and @howtomarketagame Chris Z sit down to chat about the most recent Steam Next Fest, Steam marketing, and why most indie devs fail to make a second game.
Scope Creepers: A Game Dev Podcast

The STATE of VR in 2026! - Curious about where the VR industry is headed? In this video, I recap what I learned at GDC 2026, covering the state of VR development, industry trends, winning strategies, and where Meta is focusing its efforts. Whether you're a dev or just VR curious, get all the latest insights here!
Code Monkey

My Unity Code Was Fine - Until It Wasn't - Unity architecture and dependency management are skills most developers learn the hard way.
Gamedev Engine Room

Making a 3D DAW in Unity: Chaos, Logic, and Physics - Making a 3D DAW in Unity: Chaos, Logic, and Physics
ADC - Audio Developer Conference

AI Skills in Unity — Claude Code - Build a complete game in Unity using AI — from an empty folder to a fully playable scene with physics, materials, animations, particles, and controls.
Ivan Murzak

Unity 6.4 & Unity Studio RELEASED - We have not one, but two Unity engine releases. Unity 6.4 just dropped today, along side Unity Studio which released yesterday.
Gamefromscratch

How to create a collapsing sidebar in Unity - This tutorial explains how to create two kinds of collapsing sidebars in Unity: A standalone version overlaying a game world and one working inside a greater layout. These are great for menus and show or hide labels based on if your player still requires them. This tutorial uses the Unity UGUI system and while I am using Unity 6, it works well on older versions of Unity, too.
Christina Creates Games

Creating a METABALL Effect in Unity (Render Feature + Shadergraph Tutorial) - Wishlist Surgebound:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3489880/Surgebound/Show your Support & Get Exclusive Benefits on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/sasqua...
Sasquatch B Studios

Ray Tracing Just Got Way More Accessible - Unity’s new Unified Ray Tracing API lets you trace rays against scene meshes on the GPU without requiring RTX hardware. In this video we build a simple example from scratch that generates rays, traces them against scene geometry, reads the hit results back on the CPU, and visualizes the results in the Scene view. This offers a powerful GPU alternative to physics.raycast, improving computer graphics and opening new avenues for optimization.
git-amend

How to Name Your Indie Game (So People Actually Find It) - Your indie game's name might be killing your sales. Here is the exact 4-step framework I use to fix that! Play my first PC title, Hexbound on Steam
SiriusGamin

Assets

Bundle Collection Sale - Already bundled for value, now 50% off. Shop full collections across 3D, tools, audio, and more.
Unity Affiliate

Shop up to 50% off Tiny Giant Studio - Publisher Sale - Tiny Giant Studio creates smart, efficient Unity tools that enable developers to streamline their daily tasks, allowing them to allocate more time for the creative process. The studio maintains a strong focus on usability to improve the development experience, along with ongoing improvements shaped by real user feedback. Tiny Giant Studio’s mission is to remove friction from development so creators can focus on what matters most, bringing ideas to life. PLUS get Better Mesh - Mesh Preview & Full-insight at a glance with code TINYGIANTSTUDIO
Unity Affiliate

html2uuitk - Convert from HTML + CSS to Unity's UI toolkit
fake-skate Open Source

CodePreview - Improves Unity code preview in the inspector
Alaxxxx Open Source

KoboldUiFramework - UI framework for Unity uGUI
KienanUnique Open Source

Unity-Skills - AI automation skills specifically designed for Unity - Besty0728/Unity-Skills
Besty0728 Open Source

code-review-unity - Review your Unity C# against the official Unity 6 style guide. Catches lifecycle issues, GC traps, and style violations.
jinda-li Open Source

Unity-URP-Shader - This is a library used to store various Shader effects of the Unity URP pipeline.
HurnCrngohh Open Source

Automatic-LOD-Generator - Automatic level of detail group generator and mesh simplifier for Unity.
manaporkun Open Source

Reflex - Minimal dependency injection framework for Unity
gustavopsantos Open Source

ChoiceReferenceAttribute - An attribute for selecting a subclass to be serialized in Unity. - Paulsams/ChoiceReferenceAttribute
Paulsams Open Source

Unity-MGizmos - Contribute to platinio/Unity-MGizmos development by creating an account on GitHub.
platinio Open Source

reference-radar - Lightweight Unity Editor tool for tracking asset references. Shows "Used By" and "Uses" for any asset or scene object, displays reference counts in the Project window
BroEngine Open Source

UnityPathTracing - A real-time path tracing rendering system built in Unity URP
Kuan-Mi Open Source

GenEvent - A high-performance, 0GC and attribute-based Event library for both .Net and Unity, which using code generation and without runtime reflection
Puring103 Open Source

LineRenderer2D - Scripts for rendering pixel-perfect GPU-calculated lines in 2D (Unity URP 2D Renderer)
QThund Open Source

Editor-Screenshot - A unity editor script for taking screenshots in the editor.
rurre Open Source

UnityClaudeCLI - A CLI for Claude Code to integrate directly into Unity as a command line interface. Allows developers to integrate directly with Unity's editor as a new tab in their editor.
Exano Open Source

Claude-Code-For-Unity-Shader - This is Claude Code Tool for Unity Shader
KULEEEE Open Source

muna-unity - Run AI models in Unity Engine. https://muna.ai/explore
muna-ai Open Source

UnityRuntimeCompressedTexturePacker - A Unity runtime utility that dynamically packs compressed textures to atlases to optimize VRAM and draw calls.(currently .astc only support)
wotakuro Open Source

NRandom - Provides better random number utilities and weighted collections for .NET and Unity.
nuskey8 Open Source

AIBridge - A file-based Unity automation bridge for AI coding assistants, providing stable, MCP-free commands for logs, asset and prefab operations, project compilation, scene editing, and screenshot/GIF
liyingsong99 Open Source

LitMotion - Lightning-fast and Zero Allocation Tween Library for Unity.
annulusgames Open Source

LiteEntitySystem - Pure C# HighLevel API for multiplayer games
RevenantX Open Source

Stat-System - An extensible stat system with modifiers for the Unity game engine -
meredoth Open Source

URPFog - Simple fog effects for URP.
meryuhi Open Source

Urban Man - PolyMate - Low Poly Modular Character (FREE) - Elevate your workflow with the Urban Man - PolyMate - Low Poly Modular Character asset from Alstra Infinite. Find this & other Characters options on the Unity Asset Store.
assetstore.unity.com Affiliate

Archon-Engine - High-performance grand strategy game engine for Unity, with deterministic simulation & GPU-accelerated rendering
ForgottenHistory Open Source

URP-Camera-Fade - Render feature to fade the camera color to or from a color. Requires Unity 6000.3.0 or higher.
CristianQiu Open Source

I built 'Script to Voice Generator' - 300+ voices, combinable audio effects, fully automated, free, unlimited. Use for character dialogue lines, one-liners, or narration. - Here's a free resource to generate spoken voice lines using pre-AI Text-to-Speech tech by Microsoft. It can be used for free, without limits
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7.47GB+ of High Quality Sound Effects - The Sonniss #GameAudioGDC Bundle 2026 - Free Download - Hey guys! Hope you are well. It's that time of the year again - GDC 2026 is here, and in celebration, we're continuing our tradition
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Spotlight

GHOST CAM - Your camera sees what your eyes cannot. Explore eerie liminal spaces, capture spirits before they capture you, and unravel a haunting mystery. But beware—the deeper you go, the more the world distorts, and some ghosts will do anything to remain unseen.

[Get it now on Steam]
ARCH REBELS

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #322 - URP, Publishing, Roadmap, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:36:43 +0000

Issue #322 - URP, Publishing, Roadmap, and more

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Terrain/Mesh Blending URP - In this post I'll show you how to set up a blending shader for Terrain and non-terrain meshes in URP. [Also Interactive Snow w/ Tessellation for URP by Minions Art]
Minions Art

Build on Roblox and reach millions - We’re launching two new programs to back ambitious creators building the next generation of novel games. Join and we’re ready to help you build, launch, and scale.
create.roblox.com

An interactive intro to quadtrees - Quadtrees are everywhere spatial data exists. Mapping services use quadtree-like tile pyramids to serve map tiles at different zoom levels (Bing's quadkey system, for example, addresses tiles as base-4 paths). Game engines use them for collision detection and visibility culling.
growingswe.com

snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh · eieio.games - snakes.run is a massively multiplayer snake game that uses the Secure Snake Home (SSH) protocol. It can render 100M pixels a second.
eieio.games

Indie Game Publishing and Funding Resources - If you are developing an indie game and are looking for help with publishing or financing your project it can be incredibly confusing. Today we have gathered together some of the best resources to help you through this difficult process.
gamefromscratch.com

Videos

GDC Unity Product Update - Join our Product Team for a pre-session reveal of the latest tech and Engine updates. This is the ultimate briefing for developers looking to stay on the cutting edge of game development.
Unity

15 Minutes - One Texture - In this Blender 5 tutorial, I build a stylised 3D scene in just 15 minutes using only one texture. With basic modelling and simple UV unwrapping, you can create detailed environments quickly without complicated materials.
Grant Abbitt (Gabbitt)

NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy - NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy
twitch.tv

A Better Alternative to Singletons in Unity - Singletons are one of the easiest ways to get a Unity project off the ground - and one of the fastest ways to turn your codebase into spaghetti.
Gamedev Engine Room

5 Unity Certification Questions That Catch Developers Off Guard - Over the past two years we’ve been posting Unity certification quiz questions on the channel’s community page, and some of them had a surprisingly high percentage of incorrect answers. In this video we revisit several of the lowest-scoring questions and walk through the real behavior in Unity. Topics include Canvas performance, networking edge cases, ScriptableObject icons, and Unity’s property bag system. Instead of just giving the correct answer, we recreate the scenarios in Unity and explain what’s actually happening under the hood.
git-amend

Developer & Publisher Homepages - New Customization Tools - We've introduced powerful new tools for developers and publishers to customize their store homepages. Now you can customize your page colors and imagery while organizing your games in the best way for your collection. Capture the essence of your brand and highlight titles to best align with announcements, launches, and special promotions.
Steamworks Development

The craft of voice acting with Jennifer Hale - GDC Side Quest - - Today Hale is swinging by the show to discuss the modern landscape of voice acting, how developers can collaborate with performers to make better games, and discuss the impact of generative AI in the aftermath of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Game Developer

Assets

$20 Sale - From full game systems to AI tools and cinematic VFX — 200+ assets, all just $20.
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Synty Sci-Fi Bundle - Out-of-this-world assets. Ready the engines—it’s time to blast off with a massive collection of sci-fi game dev assets by Synty! Power up your project with the sharpest polygon assets, usher in particle FX packs, and construct breathtaking sci-fi cityscapes rich with buildings, vehicles, infrastructure, and everything else you need to bring life to your fictional worlds beyond the stars. Design intricate HUDs for your out-of-this-world Sidekick soldiers. Pay what you want for a star-studded collection of assets and help support Child’s Play with your purchase!
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Ultimate Survival Kit Redux - Battle-tested assets curated for you We’ve assembled a war-ready collection of assets to unleash on your competition! Bring the boom to your game’s battles with high-definition T90 & M1A2 battle tanks, zombie soldiers, and more. Or build the dystopian future of your dreams with a cyberpunk city, futuristic airship, noir city apartment, and beyond! No two are the same, and any situation is covered when you shop with Humble Bundle. Pay what you want to jump-start your development cycle with time-saving assets and help support Save the Children with your purchase.
Humble Bundle Affiliate

UnityFastCompiler - Possibility to decide when to have Unity compile, avoiding blocking the main thread at the slightest change
Kekko16004 Open Source

UnityStarter - A production-ready, modular Unity project template that provides a solid foundation for game development. Inspired by Unreal Engine architecture patterns, this template integrates proven gameplay systems, high-performance infrastructure, and modern development workflows.
MaiKuraki Open Source

TextureMerge - pack/merge textures into image channels.
fidifis Open Source

uLayout - A simple UI layout system for Unity uGUI.
pokeblokdude Open Source

univoice - Voice chat/VoIP solution for unity.
adrenak Open Source

neovim-unity - This is a guide alongside a set of projects on how to setup Neovim >= 0.11 for Unity development tasks on both Linux and Windows (and, to some degree, WSL2 under Windows). By the end of this you should have an IDE like experience without any propretiary tools/third party libraries. All 3rd party utilities are licensed under the permissive MIT License.
walcht Open Source

Unity_DropArea - Editor GUI extension for drawing a drop area.
XJINE Open Source

Unity-PlayerPrefsEx - Lightweight package with variables, custom data model support and optional encryption. Under the hood it uses the same PlayerPrefs system, but creates flexible wrapper on top.
IvanMurzak Open Source

UnityPathTracing - A real-time path tracing rendering system built in Unity URP
Kuan-Mi Open Source

VNovelizer - An Excel-Driven Unity Visual Novel Plugin
Fakecorps Open Source

UnityVoxelEngine_v2 - Unity Voxel Engine v2 is an experimental voxel engine that separates responsibilities between Unity scripts and native C++ code. Unity handles project structure, scripting, and engine integration, while performance-sensitive logic is implemented in a compiled native library.
BloodyFish Open Source

GridForge-Unity - A high-performance, deterministic spatial grid management system for simulations and game development.
mrdav30 Open Source

Shop up to 50% off ReversedInt - Publisher Sale - Reversed Interactive prides itself on providing high-quality assets at affordable prices. From city packs to prop packs, with upgrade paths between similar assets to keep you on the latest release. PLUS get Mega Props: Vintage Collection for FREE with code REVERSEDINT2026
Unity Affiliate

UnityPSDLayoutTool2 - This project is explicitly based on the original UnityPSDLayoutTool and adds compatibility fixes and workflow improvements for newer Unity versions.
mesakas Open Source

Unity-URP-Outline - A Unity package that includes a outline render feature for Unity 6 URP and rendergraph. Integrated with URP volume system. Perfect for fast prototyping.
CristianQiu Open Source

Buttr - Buttr uses lazy instantiation and expression trees at its core, minimising reflection through compile-time source generation for attribute injection. It's designed to be lightning fast at resolving dependencies and is extendable to allow for reusable, configurable packages.
FriedCrumpets Open Source

DxCommandTerminal - Unity Command Terminal: In-Game Console
wallstop Open Source

HeightmapOnTheGPU - A dynamically tesselating, deforming terrain map made in Unity using Compute shaders
TarAlacrin Open Source

Easy-Text-Effects-for-Unity - An open-source Unity package for animating TextMeshPro text with customizable effects. Includes ready-to-use samples, real-time previews, and per-vertex animation capabilities.
LeiQiaoZhi Open Source

Stylized Grass & Dirt - A downloadable Free Texture Pack
juliovii.itch.io

SimpleTools-RuntimeCrashHandler - A small asset for Unity, that catch up all game exceptions and errors, stops game and show window with options.
ligofff Open Source

MTree - A powerful procedural tree creation tool for Unity. Now it is completely Open Source (MIT).
Warwlock Open Source

The Complete Cinematic Game Audio Bundle - Cinematic sounds at your fingertips. We’ve partnered with the experts at Audio Hero Inc. to curate The Complete Cinematic Game Audio Bundle! Engineer the perfect soundtrack for game trailers, cinematic reveals, boss battles, action scenes, dark sci-fi settings, and beyond. Upgrade to our Tier 2 collection and unlock even more amazing audio assets. Armed with 10+ SFX packs—each containing hundreds of unique assets—this bundle covers every possible sonic situation your project could run into. Pay what you want for the tones the pros use and help support the Starlight Children
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Spotlight

Go Groundshel! - What if your significant other is in danger, but you have to deal with an urgent call of nature on the way to the rescue? “Go Groundshel!” is a “Super Maria” puzzle adventure game in which a groundhog girl endeavors to save her male partner from the villain. Awkwardly stepping out of her comfort zone, she becomes a heroine who confronts enemies despite lacking combat training.

[You can get the demo on Steam]
Curaxuan

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #321 - Fundamentals, Design Choices, Rules, Tools and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:14:26 +0000

Issue #321 - Fundamentals, Design Choices, Rules, Tools and more

This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com

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Over 800 gamers tried and utterly failed to beat a classic '80s game without a guide - The Adventure Game Aptitude Test is the first of its kind, and the initial results are incredible
polygon.com

We Are Wishlisted - We're bridging the gap between visionary indie developers and the players who love them. With over 100+ games showcased, you're sure to find a title you love. Tune into Wishlisted to discover the games you didn't know you were missing. [You can apply here]
wishlisted.gg

Steam Analyser - I built a free app to help game studios optimise their Steam capsule art & get more wishlists (Based on 1000+ games)
Robbie Ferguson

Why and How to make in-engine gameplay trailers - Simply put, an in-engine trailer is made in the same way that you make your game: in the game engine. But instead of launching your game, you launch a self-playing trailer and record the output.
darzalgames.com

Kinetic Publishing: Indie teams get guidance from the Phasmophobia team - Kinetic Games has had to learn a lot the hard way. Their 2020 breakout hit Phasmophobia began as a solo project by the studio’s founder, Daniel Knight; at launch, this ghost-hunting co-op sold tens of millions of copies and defined a whole new horror genre.
Unity

Clue: Murder By Death – How to Spin Intriguing Mystery in Indie Game - Cocodrolo Games, the developer of Clue: Murder By Death, a detective game inspired by The Abbey of Crime, Return of the Obra Dinn, and iconic movies, discussed how it mixed investigation, narrative, and puzzle-solving and made familiar characters feel alive.
80.lv

Guide to SDF+MSDF Fonts - I wanted to implement outline, glow, shadow, and other effects, for both games and maps. In 2024 I learned how to use SDF (and MSDF) fonts for rendering these types of effects. In 2026 I wrote this summary of how to use them.
redblobgames.com

Unity Launch Performance Risk Scorecard - If your Unity build feels “mostly fine,” you might still be one spike away from a milestone slip.
thegamedev.guru

Unity GCR Asset Scanner - Check which of your assets from Greater China Region publishers will be removed on March 31st, 2026
iyedbhd.github.io

Fundamentals Program - Fundamentals Program - Unity game development and C# programming with professional developer Darko Tomic.
darkounity.com

Videos

Unity Graph Toolkit Tutorial - Unity Graph Toolkit provides a graph-based framework for creating your own node-based tools to use in the Unity Editor. Create tools that enable non-technical teammates to build game systems without having to access code.
Unity

Yellow paint, and letting players play the game themselves - Industry professionals discuss the balance between guiding players and fostering immersion. They explore how design choices impact exploration, comparing AAA development pressures with alternative approaches to puzzle design.
Steve Lee (Level and Game Design)

Use THIS Workflow to create Low Poly Characters FAST! - Learn to make low poly characters in blender
Thomas Potter

Rebuilding Unreal’s EQS in Unity 6 (Full AI System From Scratch) - Unreal has a powerful AI feature called the Environment Query System (EQS) that lets agents intelligently evaluate the world and choose optimal positions for attack, cover, or patrol — but Unity doesn’t have anything like it built in. In this video, we recreate EQS from scratch inside Unity 6, building a fully asset-driven system with generators, tests, scoring, and runtime execution, so our AI can dynamically reason about space instead of relying on hardcoded behavior.
git-amend

A Few Simple Rules to Keep Your Game Under Control - In this video I share some of the lessons I learned after working on my first indie game, Farewell North, for over four years and how I eventually grew to resent working on the project. Since then, I've been hard at work on my second game and I'm having way more fun with it. This video gets into some technical tips and tricks to keep your project stable, organized and running smoothly as the years go on.
Kyle Banks

Assets

$20 Sale - From full game systems to AI tools and cinematic VFX — 200+ assets, all just $20.
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Unity-Environment-Query-System - This Environment Query System (EQS) provides a data-driven way for AI to find optimal positions in the game world. Inspired by Unreal Engine's EQS, it uses generators to produce candidate points, tests to score or filter them, and context (querier and target) so the same query can power cover-seeking, attack positioning, patrol points, and more—without hard-coding behavior.
adammyhre Open Source

UnityLibrariesCleaner - A Batch Script to free up disk space by emptying the Library folders of your Unity projects.
JonathanTremblay Open Source

Color-Changer-For-Unity - Non-Destructive Real-time Texture Recoloring Tool for Unity
puk06 Open Source

SimpleWebTransport - WebSocket Server and client for unity designed for Mirror Networking
James-Frowen Open Source

UnityPretendProgressBar - This is a Unity plugin that pretends to be a progress bar. I don't know what it's for. Maybe you can pretend that your Unity is working?
TheDarkXian Open Source

ListView - High-performance virtualized ListView for Unity UI with item recycling, optimized rendering and smooth scrolling for large datasets.
MagasDeveloper Open Source

UniFlux - Handle Events and States in Unity, Really Easy to Use and High Performant,
xavierarpa Open Source

Spline Mesher | Pro - (50% Off) - Easily bend and repeat meshes along Unity splines for fences, pipes, paths, and more - or generate a mesh from a spline area. Fast, flexible, and built on Unity’s native spline system.
Staggart Creations Affiliate

UnitySimplePhysics - Simple Physics provides lightweight, easy-to-use physics-based behaviors for Unity. (Rope, Cloth, SoftBodies)
JohannHotzel Open Source

Greater China Unity Asset Archive - Archiving Unity Assets from Greater China publishers before their removal on March 31st, 2026.
vanquish3r.github.io

QuickTexture — AI Texture Generator for Game Developers - Generate seamless PBR textures with AI in seconds. Free 3D tile builder QuickTile included. Built for Unity, Godot & Unreal Engine.
QuickTexture

Pixel Art PBR Maps Generator by LunarBlank - A tool specialized on generating PBR maps for pixel art. Tileable or clamped, from images or from heightmaps.
itch.io

PurrUI - A stack based screen manager for Unity's UI.
PurrNet Open Source

Shop up to 50% off Code Stage - Publisher Sale - Code Stage is best known for tools like Anti-Cheat Toolkit and Maintainer, helping Unity teams secure games, keep projects clean, and monitor performance across thousands of professional and indie projects. PLUS get Advanced FPS Counter for FREE with code CODESTAGE
Unity Affiliate

LightLeakEffectExample - Light Leak Effect with Unity URP
keijiro Open Source

EnigmaCore - Enigma Core for Unity - is a useful set of tools and extensions to speedup development of core Unity applications. This code is shared between all my projects and it is in active update and improvement.
EnigmaticComma Open Source

com.bananaparty.behaviortree - Unity package. Fully cross-platform Behavior Tree.
forcepusher Open Source

com.unity.uitoolkitextensions - The UI Toolkit library of controls, components and other useful features for extending the UI Toolkit solution for Unity
Unity-UI-Extensions Open Source

UnityScriptingUtilities - A curated collection of reusable scripting utilities for Unity projects. This package provides lightweight, production-tested helpers for: - AnimationCurve-based tweening and easing - Transform and UI utilities - Object and audio pooling - Weighted random selection - Bezier paths and editor helpers - General-purpose gameplay utilities Designed for rapid prototyping, interactive installations, tools, and full-scale game systems.
williamrjackson Open Source

Unity-Skills - AI automation skills specifically designed for Unity
Besty0728 Open Source

UnityLibs - libs for unity, memorypool, UIView Code generator, EventSet for event manager, timer wheel, clock, etc
fancyhub Open Source

unity-helpers - Unity Helpers provides production-ready utilities designed to improve development speed. Key performance highlights: 10-15x faster random generation than Unity.Random (see benchmarks), O(log n) spatial queries, and declarative inspector attributes to reduce custom editor code.
wallstop Open Source

UnityTestingExtensions - Unity Test Framework Extension Library
liortal53 Open Source

UnityBuildRunner - Wrapper cli tool which output Unity batch build log to StandardOutput.
guitarrapc Open Source

Claude-Code-For-Unity-Shader - This is Claude Code Tool for Unity Shader.
KULEEEE Open Source

AnyRPGCore - Open source Role Playing Game engine for Unity 3D written in C#.
AnyRPG Open Source

scss - A shader for Unity providing cel-shading. (Forward rendering)
s-ilent Open Source

unity-cli - Rust CLI for Unity Editor automation over Unity TCP protocol
akiojin Open Source

artificetoolkit - A Unity toolkit that allows easy editor customization with simple C# attributes.
AbZorbaGames Open Source

Straight-Skeleton-Generator - This is a C# implementation of the Straight Skeleton algorithm for Unity. Straight Skeleton is an algorithm that takes a polygon (with holes) as an input and spits out a bunch of lines that resemble a roof of a building.
Briganti-Games Open Source

Unity_AsyncUdpSendReceive - UdpSender and Receiver using async.
XJINE Open Source

Unity_Font_Replacer - Unity Font Replacer
snowyegret23 Open Source

save-async - A Unity package for asynchronously handling save game data.
buck-co Open Source

GameStringer - Break language barriers in gaming. Free AI-powered localization tool supporting all major engines. Open source forever.
rouges78 Open Source

ANIMEVOX by castpixel - a simple anime sfx generator
itch.io

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Spotlight

Neurospasm - The world is dead, and humanity has been trapped in a virtual world by the one known as just "The CEO" Most of the trapped, have turned to amalgamations of flesh and rust, as they forgot their true forms You are a part of the resistance, a small group who managed to enter the virtual world using a custom client, that allows you to Kill The CEO

[You can get it on Itch.io]
volutedberet

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #320 - HDRP News, Publishing, Game Dev Skills and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:05:13 +0000

Issue #320 - HDRP News, Publishing, Game Dev Skills and more

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FragCoord.xyz - A powerful WebGL2 shader editor for writing, debugging, and sharing GLSL fragment shaders.
FragCoord.xyz

Render Pipelines strategy for 2026 - Unity Engine - Unity Discussions - We want to share where our focus is when it comes to Unity’s render pipelines. This is a topic we know is on a lot of your minds, and one we discussed extensively with many of you, including at Unite Barcelona.
Unity Discussions

Insider Gaming Showcase Will be Held May 28th To Help Games Get Funded - Insider Gaming is proud to announce our debut showcase, highlighting upcoming games that are looking for funding or publisher backing.
Insider Gaming

Useful Tip on How to Create Run Cycle in Animation - HekiTen10 will show you how to make running look natural.
80.lv

Monster Prom: Building a dialog system for a multiplayer dating sim - The Monster Prom series from Beautiful Glitch is a masterclass in controlled chaos. This popular franchise takes the dating sim (typically a single-player affair), adds absurdist humor, and flips the script by making it a competitive multiplayer game. With four games launched (and a fifth on the way), thousands of branching events, and a distinct comedic voice, Monster Prom is a great example of how to iterate on a familiar concept while making it feel fresh each time.
Unity

Videos

Using your game development skills for Healthcare - Join Sarah from the pro-training team to discover how your existing game development skills can transfer to fast-growing industries, like healthcare, which are in urgent need of development talent!
Unity

Linux for Game Development - A follow up to my earlier video on choosing between Mac and Windows for game development. So many comments were "What about Linux"... Well this video is what about Linux... The strengths and weaknesses of using the Linux operating systems for game development.
Gamefromscratch

Unity Assembly Definitions Explained (Architecture, Not Just Compile Times) - Assembly Definitions in Unity are often introduced as a way to improve compile times—but their real value is architectural. In this video, we walk through how Unity compiles scripts by default, how to structure projects using asmdefs, and how to introduce assembly boundaries incrementally without rewriting your entire codebase. If your Unity project is starting to feel tangled, this video shows a concrete, realistic path to bringing structure back
git-amend

Unity HDRP is DEAD! - Unity is shifting focus from HDRP to improving URP! HDRP won’t get new features, so it’s time to look at what this means for your game projects. Let’s break down what’s changing and see why URP is becoming Unity’s main graphics pipeline for everyone—plus new features coming soon!
Code Monkey

Why ECS is the future of game development? - ECS Series Summary - Ever wondered how AAA games manage thousands of characters, physics calculations, and AI without slowing down your game?
Tale Forge

Assets

Localization-Unity - Localization System For Unity Engine Supports More Than 100+ Languages
PicoShot Open Source

unity-debug-overlay - A fast and garbage free debug overlay for Unity
pandr Open Source

UnityConsole - A Unity Runtime Console using UI Toolkit
BarionLP Open Source

UnityHistoryPanel - Photoshop Like History panel with shortcut navigation
brunomikoski Open Source

UnityAssetQuickAccessTool - Pin frequently used Unity objects, menu items and external files/folders/urls to a separate editor window. An enhanced version of the Unity's Favorites feature.
SolarianZ Open Source

burst-trace - High-performance, zero-allocation stack trace logger for Unity Mono/DOTS, Burst, and Jobs. Safely capture call chains in multithreaded code
Elfinik Open Source

BuildMagic - An utility to manage multiple build schemes such as development and release for Unity.
CyberAgentGameEntertainment Open Source

Stylized Stone & Wood 02 by JulioVII - Free Stylized Textures
juliovii

Free 3dTile BuilderFor Game Devs - Build modular 3D tile sets in your browser. Configure procedural geometry, assign PBR textures, and export directly to Unity, Godot, or Unreal Engine as a GLB file.
quicktexture.com

Unity-Runtime-Framework - Lightweight, modular runtime framework for Unity focused on clean architecture and performance.
janikowski-dev Open Source

Shop up to 50% off D.F.Y. STUDIO - Publisher Sale - D.F.Y. STUDIO specializes in creating high-quality game UI artworks and visual designs for data visualization projects. We provide high-quality UI assets to assist you in your game production. PLUS get Cyberpunk RPG GUI Pack for FREE with code DFYSTUDIO
Unity Affiliate

MercuryMessaging - A framework and encompassing toolkit to facilitate nonspatial communication in the Unity game engine.
ColumbiaCGUI Open Source

ionet - A Java distributed server framework based on Aeron and Netty, featuring a lock-free, asynchronous, and event-driven architectural design. Suitable for game servers, IoT, high-frequency financial trading, and high-frequency market data pushing.
iohao Open Source

unigame.googlespreadsheets - google spreadsheet v.4 support library for unity3d
UnioGame Open Source

FirebaseWebGL-Unity - Firebase API (Auth, Analytics, Messaging, Remote Config, Storage, Installations and etc.) for WebGL games made by Unity Engine.
am1goo Open Source

Maximum Chill Music Bundle - Lo-fi beats to relax and study to. Give your creative projects a chilled-out, laid-back mood with this bundle of relaxing and royalty-free music files! (Yes, we’re using exclamation points because we’re excited about this bundle! But we’re also very chill and relaxed.) Set the mood for a movie scene, a video game quest, or simply meditate your cares away with the calming sounds of deep space, warm guitars, tastefully elegant piano solos, and ambient noises to dream by. Get all of these soundscapes and more to complete your audiovisual projects—or for whatever makes you feel most restful—choose what you wish to pay, and support diabetes charity Breakthrough T1D with your purchase!
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Spotlight

Amy Hates Robots - An action roguelike where toasters, telephones, and trash cans have come alive and want you dead. Build your gun from a set of conditional bonuses, triggering them strategically as you battle through deadly arenas. Make friends with quirky allies as you uncover an apocalyptic scheme.

[Out now on Steam]
Rogue Robin Studios

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #319 - 2D Guides, Game Ideas/Concepts, Optimizing, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:24:53 +0000

Issue #319 - 2D Guides, Game Ideas/Concepts, Optimizing, and more

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Our ultimate 2D game art, animation, and lighting guide is now updated for Unity 6.3 LTS - Our goal for 2D creators is not only to develop the most stable and powerful 2D tooling but also to provide the industry-standard in learning and upskilling content for our users. Whether guides, videos, or sample projects, these resources present the best practices, techniques, and tips you need to efficiently create performant 2D games in any style and genre – from retro pixel art to sophisticated 2D with dynamic lighting and 3D elements.
Unity

Big Farm: Homestead – Inside the tech behind a 3D mobile world - New Moon Production was founded in 2016 with the goal of staying at the forefront of game development technology while keeping production sustainable. Over the past decade, the studio has shipped games including Empire: World War 3, Empire: Age of Knights, Home & Garden: Design Makeover, Love & Passion: Chapters, Big Farm: Mobile Harvest, Big Farm: Story, and Sunshine Island.
Unity

Reducing Tiled Maps to Optimized Collision Rectangles with Greedy Merging - Tile-based editors like Tiled are excellent authoring tools. They allow designers to think in terms of cells, patterns, and repetition, which is exactly what makes them productive. However, the data they produce is optimized for editing, not for runtime use.
emanueleferonato.com

Behaviour Trees versus State Machines - Generally, it is easiest to think of AI in games to be primarily used for creating interesting hostile enemies such as the guards in Metal Gear Solid games or the Alien (Xenomorph) in Alien: Isolation. However they are also used for the cute characters in the Animal Crossing games, or the slimes in Slime Rancher. But then getting even past tangible characters, there is “The Director” in Left For Dead 2, which is an AI solution that dynamically adjusts the game based on current conditions.
queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page

Indie Studio Lead Discusses Creating a Game & How to Stay Competitive - Patrick McAvena, the President of an indie development studio Moving Pieces Interactive talked to us about the studio's philosophy, creating and distributing its title Shoulders of Giants, and how it approaches development to stay competitive in the market.
80.lv

Sampling vs Instrumentation in Unity, Field Ops with Very Sleepy - Myth: “The Unity Profiler shows everything.” Reality: It shows what’s instrumented. Sampling profilers reveal the rest.
thegamedev.guru

Contractor management platform Mellow launches new indie support program - Offers six months of full access to recruitment and management tools for $1 per contractor per month
gamesindustry.biz

Videos

Async in Unity: Main Thread First, Multithread When Needed - Awaitable brings modern async/await into Unity in a way that actually fits the engine, letting you write clean asynchronous code without freezing frames or fighting the player loop—and when you do need multithreaded work, it gives you a safe, explicit way to step off the main thread and come back without breaking Unity’s API rules. In this video, we break down what async really means in Unity, how coroutines differ from async/await, where traditional Task-based patterns fall short, and how Awaitable helps you build responsive loading flows, frame-safe delays, and background processing without turning your code into callback soup or hitching the game loop.
git-amend

11 Game Design Concepts You Didn't Know You Needed - I run through 11 game design concepts I learned the hard way in game dev, so that you can make better games!
Tim Ruswick

Pyrite64 - N64 Engine & Editor [Release] - I'm happy to release "Pyrite64", an N64 game engine and editor.
HailToDodongo

How to Steal Game Ideas (Without Copying) - How do you make an original game without copying? In this video, I break down how to “steal like an artist” in game development. Learn how to build around powerful player fantasies, reduce friction, borrow proven systems, and recombine ideas into something truly original and marketable on Steam.
Payne Robinson

Blender 5.1 - AWESOME New Features for Game Developers! - Blender 5.1 Beta is here, and it's comes with some amazing new features. Today we check out some of those new features, with an eye towards the stuff that game developers will use the most. This includes more geometry node improvements including the exciting new raycast mode, some amazing quality of life AI improvements and much more. …
Gamefromscratch

Modern Games Are Over-Tutorialized. Here's Why - Here's why old game's didn't have tutorials
Murray

How I made a shooter game in 64 KB - QUOD game page: https://daivuk.itch.io/quod
daivuk

Unity Video Tutorial: Getting Started with Timeline - Timeline is a sequencing tool in Unity that lets you visually create, edit, and control time-based events like animations, audio, signals, and gameplay sequences, without hard-coding timing logic. In this video we show you how to get started using it.
Unity

Assets

World-Shaking Flash Deals - 70% off everything you need to build incredible worlds — for 24 hours only. New Assets drop daily.
Unity Affiliate

Shop up to 50% off Asset Mage W - Publisher Sale - Jimmy (aka Asset Mage W) turned a fascination for visual effects into a professional career in game VFX. He is now an avid follower and early adopter of the newest VFX Graph features. PLUS get UNI VFX: Missiles & Explosions for Visual Effect Graph for FREE with code ASSETMAGEW
Unity Affiliate

Game Audio Collection - 1,800+ Music Tracks & 65,000+ Sound Effects - 65,000+ professional audio assets ready for production. Calling all game developers and video creators! This massive audio bundle delivers 1,800+ high-quality music tracks and 65,000+ sound effects built for real projects and real pipelines. From dark fantasy scores for RPGs to punchy UI sounds, ambient soundscapes, and high-energy tracks for action and cinematic scenes, there’s music, sound effects and voice packs here for every style and genre. All assets are created by experienced contributors from GameDev Market, giving you production-ready sound at a huge scale. Expand your audio library, speed up your workflow, and support Hello World when you pick up this bundle through Humble Bundle. All of the software in this bundle is available DRM-Free via direct download.
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Status Effect Framework - Status Effect Framework is a framework for implementing status effects into any game. It is easy to use, and fully customizable.
maraudical Open Source

Localization-Unity - Localization System For Unity Engine Supports More Than 100+ Languages
PicoShot Open Source

cesium-unity - Bringing the 3D geospatial ecosystem to Unity
CesiumGS Open Source

MetaVoiceChat - Self-contained proximity voice chat solution for Unity with easy setup
Metater Open Source

UnitySimplePhysics - Simple Physics provides lightweight, easy-to-use physics-based behaviors for Unity. (Rope, Cloth, SoftBodies)
JohannHotzel Open Source

unity3d-rainbow-folders - This asset allows you to set custom icons for any folder in unity project browser.
Borod4r Open Source

BurstFFT - FFT implementation in C# optimized for Unity's Burst compiler
keijiro Open Source

DeckBuilderRoguelikeEngine - A structural playground for building roguelike card battle systems.
K-mohameduuu Open Source

unitext - Text engine for Unity that correctly renders every writing system — Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, CJK, emoji, and 150+ others. Built on HarfBuzz, the same shaping engine used by Chrome, Firefox, Adobe InDesign, and Android. 3-21× faster than TextMeshPro
LightSideMeowshop Open Source

BrightStateMachine - Unity FSM to control flow, menus, game objects and behaviours.
carreraSilvio Open Source

sprite-dicing - Cross-engine tool for lossless compression of sprites with identical regions
elringus Open Source

VoxelWorldUnity - A procedual voxel world generator using Unity engine
Nauzoo Open Source

CENSOR - Screen-Space Quantization and Refraction (FREE) - "SSQR" for Non-Degenerate Rendering and μ-Rasterization via Per-Pixel, GPU-Accelerated Parallel Processing in Unity (URP). Read about the implementation here]
Mirza Beig Affiliate

AERO - Volumetric Fog and Mist (FREE) - A URP volumetric fog and mist renderer feature.
Mirza Beig Affiliate

Level Up 5K World Building Assets Bundle - Build the game of your dreams in any setting or scenario with our Level Up: 5K World Building Assets Bundle. The possibilities are endless—this massive library has everything from medieval to cyberpunk, gothic to ‘80s-inspired styles. Bring life and style to your projects with assets that let you create specialized hospitals, atmospheric taverns, underground subways, and more. Don’t wait—grab this jam-packed collection of high-quality 3D assets today and support Child's Play your purchase!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Spotlight

Trappist - Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

[Out now on Steam]
Sirrah

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #318 - RenderTexture Drawing, Tools, UI, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:29:39 +0000

Issue #318 - RenderTexture Drawing, Tools, UI, and more

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Rendertexture Drawing Example: Cleaning Prototype - In this post I am sharing a little playable Object-Cleaning Prototype setup. [Also from Minions Art, UI Background Shader]
Minions Art

What Exact Products Do Games Sell, Two Case Studies - One of the things I’ve always said about the game biz is, “Never forget what product you’re selling.”
bottomfeeder.substack.com

How to get your game category on Twitch and YouTube. - You’ve no doubt seen Twitch streamers or YouTube video creators tag their content with a specific game and clicking on it brings you to all the other videos ever created for that title. But how do you get your game visible for them, so they can select it from an easy auto-complete field? We’ll tell you in this article!
piratepr.com

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney - You know he did other things than Larry, right?
spillhistorie.no

Videos

Sprite Atlas best practices in Unity 6 - Mastering Sprite Atlases is one of the most effective ways to optimize 2D game performance in Unity for all platforms. We dive into the essential best practices, including advanced features to help you manage Sprite Atlases using Unity 6.3 LTS and Unity 6.4 – and note that the majority of the tips shown in this video will apply to previous and future versions as well.
Unity

Unity Input System: Assets, Maps & Interactions (Part 2) - Learn how to create your own Input Action Asset in Unity's Input System. This tutorial covers Action Maps, bindings, composite inputs for movement, and how to use interactions like Hold to bind multiple actions to the same button. By the end, you'll have full control over your input configuration.
Gamedev Engine Room

5 Unity Tools I’ve Added to Reduce Friction in Development - 5 Asset Store and open-source tools that improve everyday Unity workflows, from small quality-of-life improvements in the editor to cleaner patterns for structuring runtime code and reactive systems. Each tool is demonstrated with practical examples, focusing on how they reduce friction, cut down boilerplate, and make projects easier to work with as they grow.
git-amend

Unity Multiplayer Made Simple: 16 Ways PurrNet Improves Workflow - We’ve been asked a few times: "Why PurrNet? Why should I use this over [X] system?"
Bobsi Tutorials

UI Toolkit Series: Drag-and-Drop Manipulator - Learn how to implement draggable UI elements by handling pointer events and translating them into drag start, drag move, and drag end behavior in Unity 6 UI Toolkit. We will be looking at the Pointer lifecycle and managing states like Down, Move, and Up events for smooth dragging. We also look at snapping Logic and how to calculate distances to snap items into inventory slots UI example. …
Unity

Assets

World-Shaking Flash Deals - 70% off everything you need to build incredible worlds — for 24 hours only. New Assets drop daily.
Unity Affiliate

UILineDrawer - Spline-based line renderer for Unity UI Canvas.
Lamonin Open Source

NativeVoxReaderForUnity - A high-performance native .vox importer for Unity. Supports MagicaVoxel hierarchy, greedy meshing optimization, and automatic texture baking. No external dependencies. Fast and optimized MagicaVoxel .vox importer for Unity
miventech Open Source

CMUMocap - Unity humanoid animations converted from the Carnegie Mellon University Motion Capture Database
keijiro Open Source

VNovelizer - An Excel-Driven Unity Visual Novel Plugin
Fakecorps Open Source

AmaMotionAutomatiser - A plug-in to easily move objects around in Unity.
TasDeNeige Open Source

UnityNotebook - Interactive coding in the Unity Editor using Jupyter Notebook files.
mstevenson Open Source

ballistic-solver - Native C/C++ numerical launch-angle solver for moving targets under quadratic air drag
ujinf74 Open Source

unity-sprites-shader-graph - Project with Sprite Shaders created in Unity Shader Graph for URP
JMoisesCT Open Source

URP-ScreenSpaceReflection - The ScreenSpace Reflection package for Unity URP renderer.
mseonKim Open Source

Unity.UIToolkit.Extensions - Extension Methods to better build UI through code using Unity UIElements
ltmx Open Source

VitalRouter - A fast, zero-allocation, in-memory messaging library. Declarative async pipeline with source generator for Unity and .NET.
hadashiA Open Source

Alchemy - Provides a rich set of editor extensions and serialization extensions for Unity.
annulusgames Open Source

AmplifyBloom - Amplify Bloom is a complete, fast and powerful Bloom Post-Process extension for Unity
AmplifyCreations Open Source

UnityRuntimeTransformHandles - Runtime Transform Handles for Unity
manaporkun Open Source

UnityTilemapMask - SpriteMask component but for Tilemaps
justcoredev Open Source

SDFTextureGenerator - Signed Distance Field (SDF) texture generator for Unity.
cecarlsen Open Source

FixedMathSharp-Unity - FixedMathSharp-Unity: Integrates a high-precision, deterministic fixed-point math library into Unity. Ideal for simulations, games, and physics engines requiring reliable arithmetic without floating-point inaccuracies.
mrdav30 Open Source

ContentManagementSystem - Unity Editor extension for data-driven content management, adapted from XK’s CMS implementation. Simplifies structured content editing and serialization
megurte Open Source

unity-twitch-chat-interactions - A Unity tool that will allow you to easily implement Twitch chat commands into your game!
danqzq Open Source

UnityURP-FakeRealGlass - Fast glass shader that doesn't require any RayTracing or RayMarching
Youssef-Afella Open Source

Free 99 Materials/Textures Vol.5! - Just finished the last pack for this round. Tried to do some bark textures, but they came out kinda ok. I want to make the next 99 full stylized as a challenge, so that's going to be interesting.
Julio Sillet 3D Art

instatileset - A tool for drawing and editing 47-tiles tilesets easily. Made in Godot.
escualina Open Source

FAB.com Free Assets - Platformer 8 Underworld - Low Poly, Advanced Phone System, and Medieval Modular Wall Pack
fab.com

Unity-AI-Animation - AI-powered tools for Unity animation workflow. Create and modify AnimationClips and AnimatorControllers directly through natural language commands.
IvanMurzak Open Source

Unity-AI-ParticleSystem - AI-powered tools for Unity Particle System. Create and modify Particle System directly through natural language commands.
IvanMurzak Open Source

unity-cli - CLI tool for controlling Unity Editor via command line - Play Mode, console logs, tests, scenes, GameObjects and more
bigdra50 Open Source

Package2Folder - Allows to import Unity packages into specified folder to avoid your project's root bloating.
Code-Stage Open Source

UnityInspectorStandalone - Runtime Inspector for Unity Games Mono/Il2Cpp
PicoShot Open Source

FileBasedPlayerPrefs - Unity lib for json file based PlayerPrefs.
richardelms Open Source

Unity Build Optimization Tool - This tool optimizes Unity WebGL builds, automates build workflows, and reduces package size to the minimum possible.
wiki.playgama.com

Shop up to 50% off AD Sounds - Publisher Sale - High-quality audio packs for indie game developers: 60+ libraries and 10,000+ ready-to-use sound effects, designed to bring your games to life. PLUS get Monster Sounds - Volume II for FREE with code ADSOUNDS
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Spotlight

Connected - Connected is a casual, co-op puzzle game. It follows two robots that are connected by a cable and have a mission: to find and collect batteries throughout the scenario to keep the power towers charged. Cooperation and strategy are key!

[You can get the demo on Steam]
Dazard Studio

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #317 - Game Design, Profiling, Tools, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:37:53 +0000

Issue #317 - Game Design, Profiling, Tools, and more

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Humans in Games - Level up your game dev skills with these epic resources
Humans in Games

Polaris Game Design Reports - Reports produced by Polaris Game Design Retreat attendees. [Including Mechanical Comedy In Games, Toolkit for Cringe-safe Social Interactions, Embracing Player Pain: Designing For Permanent Loss and more]
Polaris Game Design Retreat

You Should Make Web Games - I recently realized that if it weren’t for the fact that making games for the web was possible, I would have probably never tried game development and stuck with it. While reflecting why this was the case, I came to the conclusion that there are certain characteristics about the web that makes it an ideal platform for beginners and more experienced game developers. That’s why I’d like to convince you to start making web games if you’re not doing so already.
jslegenddev.substack.com

Learn How to Turn a 2D Concept into an Animated 3D Scene Using Blender - Olga Kononenko talked about the workflow behind the Midnight Journey project, explaining how she used layers to build it in 3D, how she used camera settings for the projection, and the tools she used to animate the scene.
80.lv

Videos

How to optimize (almost) anything - Performance is one of the most important aspects of game development, but how do you actually approach it? Let's explore how to investigate a performance issue, and understand what steps and strategies we can employ.
SimonDev

CA If Jonas Tyroller Had To Start Over... - Jonas Tyroller (creator of Thronefall, Will You Snail, and co-creator of Islanders — both million+ sellers) shares his complete indie game dev blueprint for 2026, prototyping advice, business strategy, and brutally honest lessons from huge successes and near-misses.
Blake Gocey - Dev Dream Pod and Jonas Tyroller

Marshaling Demystified: C# and C++ Working Together - Marshaling is the process that allows managed C# code to safely exchange data with native code, and it’s at the center of every DLL call in Unity. In this video, we build a native library from scratch, call it from Unity, and step through exactly how data is copied, pinned, and shared across the managed-to-native boundary. Along the way, we cover ownership, lifetime, and the most common interop patterns so native code stops feeling mysterious and starts behaving predictably.
git-amend

Snowcap: GPU Profiling with Machine Learning | Al and Games #83 - Tommy sits down for a conversation with three developers involved in Snowcap's development - engine programming lead Franck Maestre, associate production director Elia Wrzesniewski, and expert data scientist David Renaudie - to find out how it works, how the project started out, and how it has evolved into an essential part of the process for artists and level designers working in Snowdrop.
AI and Games

Master Unity Terrain and Build Your Game World | Game Dev Tutorial - Learn how to use the Unity terrain tool to generate and sculpt terrain meshes.
Ironbark Games Studio

UI Toolkit Series: SVG Support in Unity 6.3 LTS - Say goodbye to blurry icons. In this video we cover how to use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) in UI Toolkit to keep your interfaces razor-sharp at any resolution. We also look at the differences between SVG vs. bitmaps: See why vector graphics stay smooth while bitmaps blur when scaled.
Unity

24 Game Dev Tools in 10 Minutes - Here are my top 5 game dev tools I use in almost every game.
Tim Ruswick

Unity Input System: The Basics (Part 1) - Unity's Input System is now the default in Unity 6, replacing the old Input Manager. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the fundamentals of Unity's event-based Input System — from understanding the core differences to implementing actions, events, and proper action references in your game. Whether you're migrating an existing project or starting fresh, this is everything you need to get started with modern input handling in Unity.
Gamedev Engine Room

Assets

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Unity Affiliate

Unity-AnimationUI - Open source Motion/Tweening Tool/Library with Visual Editor with code or no code and easy drag and drop support for Unity Engine
DhafinFawwaz Open Source

BxUni-3dNoiseTextureGenerator - 3D noise texture generator for Unity Editor
bexide Open Source

SkinnedMeshDecals - An example of rendering decals on SkinnedMesh Renderers in Unity.
naelstrof Open Source

Jelly-Mesh-System - The JellyMesh System is a Unity component that adds jelly-like physics to any mesh (soft body)
roundyyy Open Source

Scene-Material-Manager - A powerful Unity Editor tool for managing and analyzing materials and shaders in your scene.
roundyyy Open Source

Tree-Cross-Quad-Impostor-Generator - Unity Editor tool for creating optimized cross-quad impostors for vegetation and trees
roundyyy Open Source

LOD-Optimizer - LOD Optimizer is a Unity Editor tool designed to optimize the Last Level of Detail (LOD) by creating texture atlases, significantly reducing draw calls for distant objects
roundyyy Open Source

Auto-Backup-Saver - AutoSaveScene is a Unity Editor tool that provides automatic scene backup functionality with configurable settings and notifications.
roundyyy Open Source

Cube-Impostor-Generator - The Cube Impostor Generator is a simple yet useful Unity Editor tool designed to create cube-shaped impostors for 3D objects
roundyyy Open Source

AmplifyOcclusion - Full source-code for Amplify Occlusion plugin for Unity
AmplifyCreations Open Source

test-helper - Custom attributes, constraints, and comparers for writing more expressive tests in Unity Test Framework
nowsprinting Open Source

UnityEditorGoogleDriveIntegration - Access your Google Drive™ files from within Unity editor
yasirkula Open Source

StateGraphTool - State Machine Tool using UI Toolkit & GraphView / Unity Editor Scripting
darkrainbowsprinkles Open Source

Rats - Some Harmony-based patches to Unity's Animator and Animation windows. It fixes some bugs, adds customization, and generally removes some of the annoyances of working with animators.
rrazgriz Open Source

DS code editor & scriptable game engine - scriptable 3D game engine for the Nintendo DS so you can write and run games directly on the console itself. Written in I built a C using libnds, it compiles to a ~100KB .nds ROM that runs at 60 FPS. Features a touch-based code editor on the bottom screen and real-time 3D rendering on the top screen. Ships with a working 3D pong game as the default script.
crl.io

This Godot Add-On Makes Transition Easier For Unity Developers - Feels like home, doesn't it?
80.lv

Shop up to 50% off Kevin Iglesias - Publisher Sale - Kevin Iglesias is a 3D animator focused on video games, offering a variety of ready-to-use humanoid animations and tools that help bring your character models to life.
Unity Affiliate

Battlefield Frontlines - Military Unreal Asset Super Pack - Lead the charge - Take the wheel and build the battlefield. Battlefield Frontlines is a massive collaboration between Dekogon Studios and Evolve Studios, valued at over $5,000 USD in professional Unreal Engine 5 assets licensed for full commercial use. This premium collection brings together 90+ top-rated Fab packs built for creating realistic military, survival, and post-conflict worlds. From drivable tanks and vehicles to modular bases, safe houses, industrial props, and urban ruins, every asset has been curated for cinematic quality and game-ready performance. Whether you’re designing a modern warzone, a fortified base, or a survivor’s last stand, Battlefield Frontlines gives you everything you need to build, battle, and command the ultimate combat environment—fully optimized for Nanite and Unreal Engine 5. Get the very best war assets and help support Trees, Water & People with your purchase!
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Battle Hardened Game Asset Bundle - Badass battle hardened game assets.
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Spotlight

When the Embers Wake - When the Embers Wake is a third person narrative adventure with a cause to create awareness about the very current and real threats on wildlife. You play as a red panda that needs to survive amidst environmental challenges, threats and also grief.

[You can wishlist it on Steam]
Llamaplay

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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Game Dev Digest — Issue #316 - VFX Grass, Portals, C# Coding, and more

Game Dev Digest - The Newsletter On Unity Game Dev — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:59:42 +0000

Issue #316 - VFX Grass, Portals, C# Coding, and more

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5 Reasons Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound gets Difficulty Right - The Game Kitchen finds the right balance between fun and frustration!
aiandgames.com

Understanding QuadTrees: organizing space to reduce unnecessary work - A QuadTree is a spatial data structure designed to organize objects in a two-dimensional space. Its main purpose is not data storage, but performance optimization: it helps answer spatial questions efficiently, such as: which objects are near this point? Which entities might collide? What lies inside this area?
emanueleferonato.com

Social & Community - Marketing your game on social media and trying to grow a community, this short but simple post writes about the base of getting started with SM/CM!
gametaste.nl

Spyro Inspired Portal - One thing that stood out to me was portals Spyro uses to travel between the worlds. They received a graphical upgrade compared to the original PlayStation 1 games, that made them so much more interesting to look at - I could just watch them all day with the calm music in the background.
danielpokladek.me

Videos

VFX Grass with VFX Graph in 10 Minutes/1 Hour/1 Day | Clocked - Unity Senior Technical Artist Orson Favrel and Lead Learning Designer Aaron Sharp show us how to make VFX Grass with VFX Graph based on time constraints and how the approach differs depending on the circumstances.
Unity

How To Build A Rebindable Control Menu - In this video, we build a fully rebindable input system in Unity using the new Input System and UI Toolkit.
Game Dev Guide

I Upgraded Unity to C# 14 - Here's What Changed - What if you could use C# 14 features in Unity right now? The field keyword, primary constructors, collection expressions - all unlocked.
Gamedev Engine Room

Your Factory Pattern Might Be Wrong and You Don't Even Know It - Abstract Factory and Generic Factory are often treated as the same pattern — they’re not. In this video, we build a Unity combat system to compare them side by side, show their pitfalls, and demonstrate how they can work together when relationships are driven by data.
git-amend

Assets

Battle Hardened Game Asset Bundle - Badass battle hardened game assets.
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Uber-Stylized-Water - An highly customizable stylized water shader for Unity 6
MatrixRex Open Source

ForwardPlusURP - The ForwardPlus renderFeature with Unity URP ForwardRenderer.
AkilarLiao Open Source

UnityInspectorStandalone - Runtime Inspector for Unity Games Mono/Il2Cpp
PicoShot Open Source

unity-ci-cd-system-template - Meant to serve as a simple template CI/CD system using GameCI for Unity games using GitHub Actions.
Persomatey Open Source

UnityTilemapMask - SpriteMask component but for Tilemaps
justcoredev Open Source

UnityConsole - A Unity Runtime Console using UI Toolkit
BarionLP Open Source

CommandSystem - An automated and extendable command system as Unity package
BarionLP Open Source

backlace - A versatile anime shader for Unity and VRChat.
kleineluka Open Source

Unity-External-Console - A simple script that shows an external CMD Console in runtime that displays all Unity log messages.
SlushyRH Open Source

FAB.com Free Assets - Medieval Castle, Stylized Log Cabin, and LXR - Light Detection
fab.com

Shop up to 50% off Mumifier Studio - Publisher Sale - Mumifier Studio creates unique low-poly 3D assets for Unity, helping developers build vibrant, handcrafted worlds with optimized, charming, and ready-to-use models. PLUS get Food Pack | Low Poly Meat & Seafood for FREE with code MUMIFIERSTUDIO
Unity Affiliate

UnityURP-Procedural-DrawMeshInstancedIndirect - Procedural grass rendering in Unity URP using DrawMeshInstancedIndirect and WeightMap control.
AkilarLiao Open Source

artificetoolkit - A Unity toolkit that allows easy editor customization with simple C# attributes.
AbZorbaGames Open Source

JEngine - The solution that allows unity games to update in runtime.
JasonXuDeveloper Open Source

Unity-DataManager - an extendable data manager for unity projects
gydisme Open Source

Unity-HierarchyHelper - The fastest way to create Unity Hierarchy GUI items ever.
gydisme Open Source

EventBetter - A Unity messaging/event system for the lazy
gwiazdorrr Open Source

Big Royalty-Free Music Bundle - The sweet sounds of royalty-free music. Set the right tone for your next game with the perfect mix of music. We've teamed up with Dark Fantasy Studio for our latest royalty-free music bundle! Get 29 albums and over 400 tracks, including .wav, .mp3, and seamless premium licenses for music such as Shadows Guild, Superheroes, Dreamagination, and Slasher. Enjoy big-time savings on the best music collection around and help support Prevent Cancer with your purchase.
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2026 Quick Start Bundle - Only $2! - Get started for $2+. Everything you need to build your first game faster! We’ve upgraded this fan-favorite bundle with high-quality assets so you can prototype, build, and polish without hunting down dozens of packs.
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Top Notch Unity Assets Bundle By Chris West - Massive savings on breathtaking Unity assets. The Top Notch Unity Assets Bundle is here to help you create effortlessly. Streamline the development process behind your next project with a curated bundle of ready-to-use Unity assets by Chris West. Save time and money with beautiful and practical prefabricated asset packs like the Full Sail collection—the ultimate tool for realistic movement on sails and other cloth-like objects—and Texture Studio, the perfect rendering platform for clothing, buildings, and more. Pay what you want for the very best from Chris West and help support the Make-A-Wish Foundation with your purchase.
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Spotlight

Log Riders - Join a fun adventure by rolling a log together! In this 2 player co-op platformer, become lumberjacks with your friend and keep your balance while moving forward on a log. Overcome obstacles by moving back and forth, reach the goal, and never give up. Knowing how to get back up matters.

[You can wishlist it on Steam]
Bluespy Studios

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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