Issue #314 - Design, Marketing, Game play and more
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More Cheap Tips On Getting Feedback On Your Game - This week I am going to give you even more ideas for finding regular folks to playtest your game.
howtomarketagame.com
15 Years of Indie Dev In 4 Bits of Advice - It’s rough in the games industry at the moment, and a lot of folks are spinning up their own thing. So I thought now might be a good time to boil down what feel like the key things I’ve learned in 15 years of running an indie games studio.
pentadact.com
The CRPG Book - A Guide To Computer Role-Playing Games (PDF)
crpgbook.wordpress.com
Pico GPU - Pico GPU is a 300KB memory GPU intended to learn, experiment and have fun with shaders. It is perfect to easily create small demos or games involving 3D rendering. It can also perform GPU based sound synthesis.
ncannasse.github.io
Choosing my next game project using mockups - Last year, I posted a series of mockups on social media to determine my next game project, working together with the publisher/marketing company Metaroot. This is an in-depth post describing our motivation, approach, and results.
zarkonnen.com
Transforms 101 - 3D graphics requires a lot of math. Much of it is quite difficult, and is often considered to be black magic. Transform matrices are one of the most fundamental concepts, and I'm going to try and convince you that they are not black magic. In fact, I'm going to convince you that if you've seen a transform gizmo in a 3D engine before, then you already intuitively know what a transform matrix is, and even what each and every one of the numbers in it mean! Neat!
slembcke.net
Pricing - The developers of PEAK explain pricing
@thefatwizard.bsky.social
How we made the portal shader - Since the reception for our post was pretty possitive and lots of people asked us on how to do it, we decided to make a little tutorial showing the result inside Zaya, the game we are working on
reddit.com
Videos
This Old Game Magazine Explains Why Most Games Fail Today - You must understand PC gaming culture to understand what types of games sell well on Steam. Today I look at a random 1993 copy of Computer Gaming World to explain the culutre of PC gaming and how it influences the games you see on Steam. [Also read the article]
How To Market A Game
Quest Types - I talk abvout the different types of quests in RPGs, and the pros and cons of including a variety of types in your game.
Timothy Cain
The Procedural Building System behind Expedition 33 - While playing Expedition 33, I was really struck by how consistent and well designed the city of Lumière feels. It made me curious about what kind of tools could be behind something like that.
TNTC
How 100 Indie Games Went Viral on TikTok (And What You Can Learn) - Want to learn how to effectively use TikTok for indie game promotion? I analyzed 100+ viral indie game TikToks to find out what actually drives wishlists, followers, and hopefully eventually sales. In this video, I pass on what I learned from this experiment such as... What genres perform the best, if posting more often matters, whether having a call-to-action really impacts your success, and more! [Link to spreadsheet]
Indie Game Luke
Unity Editor Features You Didn’t Know Existed (Part 3) - Unity Editor features that can boost your productivity and make scene navigation easier. Discover the Piercing Selection Menu for quickly selecting overlapping elements, customize your workspace with the Overlay System, isolate objects with Shift+H, and master the powerful built-in search with expressions and functions to find missing assets, large textures, and more.
Gamedev Engine Room
Delegates, Events, and Closures in Unity — Finally Explained - Delegates are at the core of Unity’s event systems, input, UI, and many popular libraries — but they’re often misunderstood. In this video, we break down what delegates actually are, how Unity builds on them with events and UnityEvents, and why closures can quietly introduce allocations and lifetime issues. We’ll walk through real Unity examples, show how inversion of control improves game architecture, and finish with a practical pattern used by libraries like PrimeTween to avoid closures entirely. If you want clean, flexible, and allocation-aware Unity code, this video is for you.
git-amend
Assets
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FAB.com Free Assets - Necropolis - Graveyard Kit, Sci-fi Mech, and Fantasy Props. A New Year Sale is also on.
fab.com
Rayman - Raymarching in Unity
davidkimighty Open Source
statego - StateGo is a visual programming tool that used mixed with source code, and can be used in various programming languages, platforms, frameworks.
NNNIC Open Source
Unity-ComfyUI - ComfyUI-Unity is an interface between ComfyUI and Unity, providing a seamless way to manage and interact with ComfyUI models directly within the Unity environment. It allows users to explore all models included in ComfyUI, select various processing options, and review generated results in real-time through an integrated Unity UI.
stavrosdidakis Open Source
cassie - Sketch complex curves and surfaces in VR
V-Sekai Open Source
EZ Tree - PROCEDURAL TREE GENERATOR
eztree.dev
ballistic-solver - Native C/C++ numerical launch-angle solver for moving targets under quadratic air drag
ujinf74 Open Source
VisualStateMachineV2 - A Unity C# Visual State Machine
PaulNonatomic Open Source
Color-Changer-For-Unity - Non-Destructive Real-time Texture Recoloring Tool for Unity
puk06 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
Project-GrassFlow - A high-fidelity procedural grass rendering system in Unity, in the style of Ghost of Tsushima.
Mithzzx Open Source
Gtfsm - Generically Typed FSM for Unity
DFTGames Open Source
Card-Game-Simulator - Create, Share, and Play
finol-digital Open Source
Build-Unity-Projects-with-Jenkins - Simple instructions to help you set up a Jenkins server to build Unity projects quickly and conveniently
AnhPham Open Source
KoboldUiFramework - UI framework for Unity uGUI
KienanUnique Open Source
backlace - A versatile anime shader for Unity and VRChat.
kleineluka Open Source
Unity-Game-Race-Ai - A comprehensive racing ai system designed for unity games an intelligent ai behaviour of racing with decision making system
HTANV Open Source
VividRP - Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) featuring modern high fidelity rendering techniques,based on URP17
af8a2a Open Source
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Spotlight
Snowman Mo - One little snowman's adventure of a lifetime. Embark on a grand journey in this heartwarming single-player adventure game.
[You can get it now on Steam]
Stickerbush Studios
My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam
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