Issue #259 - Learning Resources
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Some more great content from the game dev community. Enjoy!
Porting To Console - I ported more then 15 Unity games from PC to all modern console platforms and I want to give some tiny best practices on how to handle those platforms.
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ML for Games Course - Welcome to the course that will teach you the most fascinating topic in game development: how to use powerful AI tools and models to create unique game experiences.
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Unity 6 UI Toolkit: News and updates - Unity 6 brings significant improvements to UI Toolkit. Whether you’re working on an expansive open-world RPG or an indie passion project, the toolkit streamlines workflows, optimizes rapid iteration, and reduces production times. By tackling the most common UI challenges – such as managing complex hierarchies, addressing performance bottlenecks, and enabling extensive customization – Unity 6 makes designing UIs more intuitive, flexible, and, most importantly, enjoyable.
Unity
Our complete guide to setting up version control for your team – now for Unity 6 - Our updated Unity 6 e-book on version control and best practices for project organization can help you and your team get started with choosing the right solution for your game development. This new edition provides know-how for the latest workflows in Unity Version Control and DevOps solutions, making it a significant update to the original version control e-book released in 2022.
Unity
When Writing Fantasy, Kill Your Darlings. Literally. - How to kill your characters to achieve maximum story efficiency.
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Custom Unity Renderer Swapping Tree Meshes With Interactive GameObjects - A Reddit user Creo shared their method to optimize performance.
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Unity 6 graphics learning resources - To help you get started with graphics in Unity 6, we’ve put together this reading list.
Unity
Videos
Expression Trees in Unity: The SECRET to Flexible Game Logic - Expression Trees in Unity unlock powerful runtime flexibility, enabling dynamic systems like modding, runtime scripting, and data-driven AI—areas where static tools such as interfaces or dependency injection often fall short. By treating code as data, Expression Trees let you dynamically create, modify, and execute logic during gameplay. In this video, we’ll show you how to harness Expression Trees to build adaptive systems for game development.
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Independent Games Summit: A Case for Making Your Own Engine - There are a nearly endless set of engines to choose from out, from massive AAA behemoths like Unreal to much smaller engines like Godot or even RenPy. Each of these engines offers a starting point, but they all come at a cost. The alternative is to build an engine from scratch, which is often seen as completely untenable. This 2024 Independent Games Summit session discusses when and why one might consider building their own game engine.
GDC 2025
EPC2018 - Anastasia Opara - Proceduralism and Deep Learning - Presentation from Anastasia Opara (SEED (Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division) at Electronic Arts) at the Breda University of Applied Sciences Everything Procedural Conference 2018.
BUas Games
Gamedev In-Depth | How I Implement a New Feature - Devlog video about "Homegrown", a casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine.
ThinMatrix
HackingUnity | Useless Game Dev - It's time to answer a frequent question about the Unity Engine: is it bloated? And, more importantly, can we do anything about it? Let's find out together!
Useless Game Dev
Visual Effects Summit: Lessons in Lens Flares - This 2024 Visual Effects Summit session seeks to demystify the complex visual behaviors associated with lens flares, examining the most commonly observed lens flare elements, providing simple explanations for their behaviors as well as a conceptual understanding of the interaction between light, the camera lens and the image sensor.
GDC 2025
HOW to Make a Game LOOK LIKE Hollow Knight - In today's video we'll cover metroidvania level design, and how ieasy it can be when done RIGHT! Games like Super Metroid, Hollow Knight, and more. I'll even show the steps I took to overcome it with my game indie game, Amber's Tale!
LazyTeaStudios
Assets
Black Friday Sale is Live! - Unity’s Black Friday has launched! This sale features more than 300 assets up to 50% off and special Daily Flash Deals featuring selected assets at up to 70% off.
Including: VFX Graph - Mega Pack - Vol. 2, Sci Fi Top Down Game Template 2.0, STYLZ - Fantasy Village, Cyberpunk Downtown - Low Poly,Feel, Odin Inspector, GPU Instancer Pro, and lots more!
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Award Winning Assets - The Crown Collection - Nature made easy with amazing assets
Game developers—build rich worlds, unique environments, and lush landscapes with Award Winning Assets - The Crown Collection. This bundle from NatureManufacture, winner of Unity's publisher of the year award, features environments, characters, meshes, models, animations, music, SFX, and more!
Get the assets you need to help bring your game to life, and help support Starlight Children's Foundation with your purchase.
Humble Bundle Affiliate
Fab.com Free Assets - Limited-Time Free (Until 12/3 10AM ET). Including Stylized Fantasy Creatures Bundle, Dragon Temple (Temple, Cathedral, Temple Interior, Cathedral Interior, Dungeon), and Ancient Constructions and Platforms
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save-async - Save Async is BUCK's Unity package designed for asynchronous saving and loading of game data.
buck-co Open Source
Generic-Save-System - Performatic, secure and easy save system for Unity Engine
GabrielBigardi Open Source
Step - A simple text planner for use in Unity games
ianhorswill Open Source
GenUI - Generative UI and OSC control for Unity
Theoriz Open Source
Unity-FDG - Force Directed Graph tool using Unity Jobs System
atonalfreerider Open Source
BestoNet - BestoNet is a custom rollback networking solution developed for the fighting game Idol Showdown. Built in C# for Unity, it integrates with Facepunch Steamworks to provide a robust and efficient rollback implementation.
BestoGames Open Source
Ibralogue - Powerful and extendable dialogue system library for the Unity game engine
Ibralogue Open Source
Dialogue-Node-System - A Dialogue Node System realized in Unity 2021.1.11.
ClemGG Open Source
Nino - Ultimate high-performance binary serialization library for C#.
JasonXuDeveloper Open Source
umi - Unity mobile input (UMI) plugin for Android and iOS, allows to use features of mobile native input fields
mopsicus Open Source
Scene-View-Picker - Unity extension that lets you assign any Object field by choosing it from the scene view.
RoyTheunissen Open Source
GPU-Spline-Deformation - Baking spline deformation to a texture then applying it to a mesh via a shader.
RoyTheunissen Open Source
FMOD-Syntax - Generates code to allow invoking FMOD events with a strongly-typed syntax.
RoyTheunissen Open Source
DitherFx - Pattern Dithering post effect for Unity Urp
NullTale Open Source
Slime Mold Unity - Slime mold simulation in Unity.
SuboptimalEng Open Source
Addler - Memory management system for Unity's Addressable Asset System. Provides lifetime management system for loaded resources, object pooling system, and preloading system.
Haruma-K Open Source
kajiya - Experimental real-time global illumination renderer
EmbarkStudios Open Source
Learn Unity - Game Development Bundle 2024 - Get started in Unity today Learn to create games with Unity with these online courses from GameDev.tv! This comprehensive curriculum covers core skills and advanced concepts for the powerful and popular development platform. Find out how to make a 2D RPG combat system, VR experience, or turn-based strategy game. Get trained up on visual scripting, multiplayer, network coding, and more. Level up your Unity game dev skills, and help support Oceana with your purchase! GameDev.tv have spent the last decade working with world class instructors to create the perfect learning experience for game development. Join our global community of over 2 million students and start making your own games today!
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Shop up to 50% off StylArts - Publisher Sale - At Stylarts, our goal is to create Stylized 3D environments and we are passionate about providing high quality 3D assets, materials for creative projects. PLUS get Stylized House Interior for FREE with code STYLARTS
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IKurve - IKurve - IK Rig on curve Addon for Blender
Vixelisto Open Source
Custom Node For Substance Designer (Free) - A smoothing mode has been added, which also blurs based on normals. You can now incorporate an intensity map. An additional Max (Fading Mode) has been introduced, allowing you to create truly captivating shapes.
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Super Game Assets Bundle (+7,000 Assets For Unity, Godot, and Unreal) - So many assets, so little time Game developers, build your worlds with the Super Game Assets Bundle for Unreal, Godot, and Unity—featuring 7,000+ audio, visual, and environmental assets. This high-quality bundle features a truly diverse collection of themed assets ranging from medieval to cyberpunk. Create the next great RPG or action game with the Super Game Assets Bundle and help support Direct Relief with your purchase!
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Math For Programmers 2024 Book Bundle - Strengthen your math muscles. Algorithms. Robotics. Graphics. Games. Data analysis. AI. Mathematics is the foundation of computer science. What better way to wrap up 2024 than expanding your coding toolkit with math skills that will make you a better programmer–no matter what you’re building next! The Manning Publications Math for Programmers Humble Bundle includes books on everything from basic statistics and data analysis, to data science and deep learning, to geometry, calculus, and Bayesian theory. This amazing bundle will keep you learning and growing for years to come! With the books’ included registration codes, Manning enhances your experience with liveBook including: all book formats online; bookmarking; highlighting; a reader’s forum; liveTest (self testing throughout the text); AI functionality; and, more.
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Spotlight
Space Trash Scavenger - Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
[You can get it now on Steam]
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My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam
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