Issue #278 - Shaders, Tools, Sales and more

42 Essential Game Dev Tips That Are Immutably Correct and Must Never Be Disputed by Anyone Ever At Any Time! - I quite enjoy reading “advice lists” even though “all advice cancels out” (Jeremy Giffon) - you can often find one thing which is a useful reminder or which particularly resonates with your current situation. modecollapse.substack.com What I Heard From Valve At Gdc - The reason I like these events is because the Valve employees responsible for designing and implementing the features I write about are right there and can provide you specific responses about how they actually work (most of the time). I got the answer to a lot of theories we have been batting around. howtomarketagame.com The huge, hidden web game market no one talks about (and how to get in) - There's a hidden market of customers who want to play games on the web. gamedeveloper.com How Balatro publisher Playstack delivered a marketing masterclass - A carefully curated 'Wheel of Attention' became Balatro's best friend. gamedeveloper.com Jobs Get Unity Certified! Take aim at your dream job! A a certification that will help you stand out from the crowd. Videos How I Turned Games Into REAL-TIME Magic Eye Illusions - In this video I explore how to create real-time magic eye autostereograms using shaders. Then I apply them to a game using reshade. Yusef28 Ex-Blizzard Programmer Writes A Particle System From Scratch - Never Engine Devlog 1 - In this episode of the Never Engine Devlog series we're tackling Particle Systems. What they are and how you go about making one yourself. There's a bunch of resources out there for how to make a particle system demo, but not so much in regards to how you'd go about actually making one that's flexible enough for games. Never Engine Studios 25 Game Design Books to make you a Better Game Dev - These are the best books on game design and development that I've read! Learn what "fun" is, how to make a game from start to finish, read about the development of hit games and horrible flops, and learn what inspired your favorite game creators! Visual Novel Design Unity Prefab Searching - Speed up your Unity development by discovering the two effective coding techniques to locate assets like prefabs within your project, from the simple Asset Database class to the more advanced Search Service class that is underutilized. Warped Imagination Porting DREDGE to Mobile with Unity Studio Productions - Previously a presentation exclusive to GDC, we're sitting down with Joe and Alex from Unity Studio Productions (USP) Unity URP Cookbook: Compute shaders - Part 3: Vertex animation - This video on compute shaders is based on recipes from our newly updated e-book, The Universal Render Pipeline Cookbook: Recipes for Shaders and Visual Effects for Unity 6. [part 2 also] Unity Building A Tool To Make Item Icons In Unity - If you're tired of manually setting up item icons for your game, you're not alone. Let's fix that. Game Dev Guide Unlock Lightning-Fast Math in Unity with Compute Shaders & Render Features - In this video, you'll learn how to create a powerful Scriptable Render Feature in Unity that efficiently executes a compute shader to perform real-time calculations on the GPU. We’ll demonstrate this process with a dynamic heatmap example, showing you how to integrate compute shaders into your rendering pipeline for high-performance visualizations. git-amend Assets Asset Store Spring sale - Feed your creativity with 50% off 300+ of our top assets, including tools, 3D animations, audio, and more. Flash sale⚡ 🔥 Act Fast! Enjoy up to 70% off Flash Deals, with fresh assets dropping daily. Don't miss out—once they're gone, they're gone! ⏳🎯 Get great deals on assets like Dissonance Voice Chat, All In 1 Vfx Toolkit, RayFire for Unity, COZY Pro: Stylized Weather Bundle,GPU Instancer Pro, and lots more! Unity Affiliate GUI Galore - Gamedev Market Bundle - Go crazy for gorgeous graphical interfaces. How users interact with your original menus and visuals add levels of polish that lesser projects fail to capture—turn every interface you touch into gold with our GUI Galore Bundle by GameDev Market! This bundle offers seasonal and device-specific assets with customizable components. App highlights include Ranger RPG GUI, Essential Inventory Sound Effects, and Yamato V3—get the assets you need to help bring your game to life, and help support the Michael J. Fox Foundation with your purchase! Humble Bundle Affiliate Ubisoft’s Colorblind Simulation Tool, Chroma, Now Available For Public Use - Chroma, Ubisoft's colorblind simulation tool, is now available for public use after several years of internal use and development. With an estimated 300 million people around the world affected by colorblindness, Chroma allows developers to accurately replicate their experience and create accessible content to meet their needs. The open-source tool works by applying a filter over the game screen without hindering performance. news.ubisoft.com Texture Browser for Unity - Editor window that displays a grid of textures, similar to old school map editors like Valve's Hammer Editor. billowper.itch.io Unity-Interactive-Grass - Using DrawMeshInstancedIndirect Draw 100000+ Grass Remyuu Open Source ScenarioFlow - Library for building the dialogue system in Unity dotprologue Open Source UIDynamicSampler - This package provides a component to reduce jaggies in uGUI elements. mob-sakai Open Source com.rest.elevenlabs - A non-official Eleven Labs voice synthesis client for Unity (UPM) RageAgainstThePixel Open Source UnityGridLevelEditor - Grid Level Editor SinlessDevil Open Source Simple-Screen-Manager-for-Unity-aka-SS - A simple and flexible Unity library for managing and navigating screens with high performance and reusability. AnhPham Open Source artificetoolkit - A Unity toolkit that allows easy editor customization with simple C# attributes. AbZorbaGames 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 Simblend-Editor - Editor scripts to make working experience in Unity better. SimblendGames Open Source Csv-CSharp - Fast CSV Serializer for .NET and Unity nuskey8 Open Source NewgroundsIO-Unity - A C# Library for accessing the Newgrounds.io API from Unity games. PsychoGoldfishNG Open Source ConfederateAI - 3D logic based AI for Unity. CursedPrograms Open Source voicesdk-toolkit-unity - A collection of assets, prefabs, and scripts to help help build better Voice SDK experiences on Unity. wit-ai Open Source Shop up to 50% off Distant Lands - Publisher Sale - At Distant Lands, we create stylized art, shaders, APIs, and powerful editor tools for Unity, empowering developers to bring their creative visions to life with ease and efficiency. PLUS get Kaiju: Low Poly Titans for FREE with code DISTANTLANDS2025 Unity Affiliate   Epic Adventures Asset Mega Pack - The perfect asset for any situation  Our latest asset bundle offers a little bit of everything—dive into the Epic Adventures Asset Mega Pack and see what you can create. Setting a dramatic high school scene—or an adventure on a Mediterranean island? Then you’ll fall in love with asset packs like the Mediterranean Island Pack, Survival Forest Cabin Bundle, and much more.  Get the unique assets you need to help bring your next project to life, and help support the World Wildlife Fund with your purchase! Humble Bundle Affiliate Game Spotlight echo//shredd - echo//shredd is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players in a dystopian future. Collect scrap, retrieve loot for upgrades and fight for your survival. Your life is a resource - and your replaceability is part of the system. [You can wishlist it on Steam] Irregular Human My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam Have a question, comment, or request? Please let us know! Would You Mind Helping Us Out? Forward A Marrone Games project.