Issue #307 - Unite 2025, Old Games, Black Friday, and more
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Highlights from the Unite 2025 Keynote - Today’s Keynote packed in over an hour of new features and workflows to help you develop, deploy, and grow your games, plus dev success stories from the teams behind PEAK, PGA TOUR 2K25, and more, plus a special guest visit from Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney.
Unity
New Unity Learn Course: Getting started with Discord SDK | Unity - This step-by-step, comprehensive course is designed specifically for Unity developers who want to harness the full power of Discord's social features.
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Dithering - Part 1 - Here, it uses black and white to give the impression of multiple gray shades.
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Trending Steam Games Right Now - Track what's trending on Steam right now with real-time player counts, community reviews, and verified rankings. See new releases, top sellers, and rising games updated hourly.
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How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack - Released in June 1996, Quake had to ride three technological shock-waves during its lifetime. Besides the emergence of 3D hardware accelerator cards and the growth of the Internet, an operating system shift put game developers in a tough position.
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How many video games include a marriage proposal? - At least one! Plug in a second controller and use it to enter this sequence at the main menu of NCAA Basketball Final Four 97
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Level Design Tips For Shooters - Level-design is closely tied to level-art, and it's often necessary to find solutions that don't compromise gameplay while maintaining a beautiful, detailed, and rich visual experience for a modern game. This can be especially challenging if you're developing a game in a realistic visual style.
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Unlocking Access to Game Publishing Documentation for All Developers - We’re removing barriers to learning and making it easier for teams of all sizes to understand what it takes to ship a game on Xbox.
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Unity unveils new toolkit to accelerate multi-platform launches - Unity senior VP of engine product Adam Smith says speeding up dev workflows will produce more games like Peak and Hollow Knight: Silksong.
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Videos
Unite 2025 Keynote | Barcelona - Unite 2025 puts developer choice and flexibility at the center of game development. Discover how developers can develop, deploy, and grow games across every platform in one trusted environment. [Watch a shorter recap from Speedtutor]
Unity
Their 0 Combat Game Made Them Millions - This is a conversation with Danny Weinbaum from @EastshadeStudios, the creators of one of my favorite roleplaying games, Eastshade, currently working on a new game called "Songs of Glimmerwick". How do you make successful adventure game? What makes for good quests? How to write peaceful games and bring them to satisfying conlcusion? How to craft beautiful environments?
Jonas Tyroller
Lessons From Old Games - I talk about what we can learn from old games, especially games from the 80s.
Timothy Cain
Level Up Your Unity Code With Advanced Generics - This video explores a powerful and expressive way to use C# generics to create clearer, safer, and more maintainable architecture inside Unity. We look at a modern pattern where a class takes its own derived type as a generic parameter, giving us stronger compile-time guarantees and more expressive APIs. Along the way, we build a small state machine to demonstrate how this pattern helps structure real gameplay systems without relying on fragile inheritance chains or downcasting. If you want to deepen your understanding of generics and apply them to cleaner Unity code, this walkthrough will give you practical techniques you can use immediately.
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The +30% Advantage Devs Have No Control Over - In this video I talk about the "Peeker's Advantage". Back in early days of online gaming the netcode used to evaluate actions based on the server game state. This caused many problems, since you had to lead your shots and have a feel for your latency. In 2001 Counter Strike introduced first the server side lag compensation, which will become the dominant approach when it comes to online fps games. In this video I guide you through the mechanics of the peeker's advantage. We will take a look at a scientific paper covering this phenomena and then we will take a look how big studios are trying to tackle this problem.
Tariq10x
Procedural Dungeon Generation with Binary Space Partitioning! - Learn how to build epic procedural dungeons using Binary Space Partitioning! In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll break down the logic behind BSP, code the algorithm line by line, and show you how to create rooms and corridors that feel natural and dynamic. Perfect for roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, or any game that needs endless variety. Grab your editor and let’s start generating worlds!
Programming Chaos
Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You? - Dark Patterns are everywhere in modern games, from login streaks to time-gated events and manipulative monetisation. In this video, I explain how these systems work, why they’re so effective, and how they impact both players and the industry.
Chris Wilson
Unity's Missing Play Button - Tired of toggling to test audio with effects in the Unity Editor? You're not alone! This video tutorial is about the missing Audio Source Play button showing you two solutions to add it yourself.
Warped Imagination
Unity and Epic Games Announcement | Unite 2025 Barcelona - Unity President and CEO, Matthew Bromberg, and Epic Games Founder and CEO, Tim Sweeney, took the stage to unveil a new collaboration designed to bring Unity games into Fortnite, creating more opportunity and value for players and developers. …
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Assets
Unity The Black Friday Sale is LIVE - Unity’s Black Friday sale has launched! This sale features more than 300 assets up to 50% off and special Daily Flash Deals featuring select assets at 95% off.
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Audio Preview Tool (FREE) - This tool gives you the ability to double-click on an Audio Clip in the Project window and immediately listen to it play .. no more frustrations finding the play button!
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DGG-Localization - Modular localization system for the Unity engine.
DaniilDGG Open Source
UnityBuildRunner - Wrapper cli tool which output Unity batch build log to StandardOutput.
guitarrapc Open Source
UnityLightingManager - Quickly test in Editor and change at runtime: lightmaps, lightprobes and other scene objects.
zezba9000 Open Source
StaticEcs - C# Hierarchical Inverted Bitmap ECS framework
Felid-Force-Studios Open Source
Interactions - A comprehensive Unity package for building advanced VR/AR and 3D interactions with a focus on hand presence, pose constraints, and reactive programming.
Shababeek Open Source
test-helper.ui - Unity library for UI testing including object-based monkey testing
nowsprinting Open Source
cilbox - Sandboxed CIL emulator written in C#, Designed for Unity but can work outside of Unity.
cnlohr Open Source
UnityTranslate - A mod designed for free live translation, inspired by the QSMP.
UnityMultiplayer Open Source
UnityEditorTimeTracker - An easy to use Unity plugin that allows you to track how much time you have spent working on your unity project.
ExIfDev Open Source
inkfungus-template - A gateway between Ink and Fungus to make narrative games in Unity
maurovanetti Open Source
Unio - Unio (short for unity native I/O) is a small utility set of I/O using native memory areas.
hadashiA Open Source
Unity-SmoothLineTrail - A smooth LineRenderer-based trail for Unity.
Yword Open Source
UnityTerrainConvertor - Tools for converting and combining meshes.
yuxuanxienova Open Source
OSK-Framework - Unity framework designed to streamline game development. It provides tools to manage game systems like events, localization, sound, and more, ensuring high performance, scalability, and maintainability
O-S-K Open Source
MGS.Curve - Smooth 3D curve component for Unity project develop.
mogoson Open Source
compilation-visualizer - Unity Tool showing a timeline of assembly compilation. This is especially helpful when trying to optimize compile times and dependencies between assemblies. Besides showing a graphical view of compilation, selecting an assembly shows both dependencies and dependents of that assembly.
needle-tools Open Source
Unity-QuestConversationalAI - Unity packages for real-time conversational AI with speech-to-speech capabilities. Integrates OpenAI and ElevenLabs APIs for natural voice interactions in Unity projects for Meta Quest headsets.
danieloquelis Open Source
UniFP-Functional-Programming-for-Unity - C# Zero Allocation Functional programming for Unity powered by monad pipelines.
nekoya404 Open Source
Unified-Universal-Blur - UI blur (translucent) effect for Unity.
lukakldiashvili Open Source
uniton - Python remote procedure call framework for the Unity game engine
rmst Open Source
Chirp - Chirp Logging Framework is designed to make handling console logs much easier, add context and extend the default functions added by Unity's Debug.Log classes.
JakubSlaby Open Source
FAB.com Free Assets - Matte Painting Skybox Pack: Chaotic Skies, Laketown, and Futuristic Warrior CYBER WARRIOR
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Super Weapons Pack - These weapon assets bring the BOOM! Looking for blockbuster-level weaponry for your next project? Gear up with the Super Weapons Asset Pack by Superhive and add unbeatable value to your personal asset library! Choose from exceptionally detailed models or a colorful lowpoly look. Unleash the boom with a wide range of weapon types and genres, from medieval fantasy to sci-fi, like mounted machine guns, ninja shuriken, Smith & Wesson revolvers, rocket launchers, and so much more. Don’t bring a basic knife to a gunfight—get the Super Weapons Asset Pack and add exciting firearms and beyond to your next project! All these products work with the free, open-source software, Blender, and many assets function across 3D applications for maximum bang for your buck!
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Learn To Create Game Art In Blender 2025 - Blender for beginners and beyond. Start your next career as a game art designer with a little help from the Learn to Create Game Art in Blender 2025 Bundle! Learn the basics or polish your existing skill set with expert-led courses like The Blender Sculpting Brushes Course, The Complete Blender Creator Course, and The Blender Animation & Rigging Course. Discover how to export your work directly from Blender to Unity and Godot with ease! Save big on life-changing creative tools and help support One Tree Planted with your purchase.
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Spotlight
IN SILICO - In a distant future humanity is enslaved in a simulation. Now that you are awake, can you escape from reality too?
[You can wishlist it on Steam]
Gabriel Jiménez Cabrera
My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam
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