Issue #289 - Tools, Small Gains, and more

Game Dev Tools - Hi! I'm Rodrigo Soria, indie game developer and founder of Anawim Studios. After years of tackling the same game dev challenges (and tired of losing too many Python scripts), I built this space to gather the tools I use every day. I hope they make your game dev journey a little smoother and a lot more fun! hrodrick.github.io Improvements to the Separating Axis Test - This article will assume some familiarity with narrow phase collision detection methods and associated geometric concepts such as the Minkowski sum. cairno.substack.com 5 Ways Developers Can Master Porting and Optimization in 2025 - From the importance of platform licensing to why the multiplayer component should be treated as a core system – here are five lessons for game developers wishing to get into porting shared with us by Room 8 Group's Yann LeTensorer and Yoan Aleksiev. 80.lv Jobs Get Unity Certified! Take aim at your dream job! A a certification that will help you stand out from the crowd. Videos Getting started with the Project Auditor - Check your project with the Project Auditor. The Project Auditor, introduced as a package in Unity 6.1, is a powerful analysis tool for Unity projects, designed to help developers optimize performance, maintain best practices, and identify potential issues and bottlenecks in their projects. Unity Building Big Impact, One Brick at a Time: Marginal Gains in 'LEGO Horizon Adventures' - If you break down everything that goes into making a game, and improve each thing by just one percent, you'll have a significant improvement when you put them all together. This GDC 2025 talk from Studio Gobo's Lead Designer Adam Russell goes into detail about how to build marginal gains into your team's development process Game Developers Conference How to add sounds to your UI in Unity  Play sounds on click! - Learn how to create a simple system that plays sounds when you interact with your UI in Unity. This tutorial explains how to create a system to tag elements that should emit sound with a central manager keeping track of every interaction type and sound to play. Christina Creates Games Create an EFFICIENT 2D Decal System from a Custom Renderer Feature (Unity Tutorial) - I've been wanting to learn how to create custom renderer features for a while (particularly using the new RenderGraph API) - and this was a PERFECT use case for it. Yes, if you just need to sprinkle a few permanent 2D decals into your scene you could just spawn in a sprite, but this method is EXTREMELY performat because we inject one single draw call using GPU instancing directly into the renderer. It doesn't even have the overhead of a gameObject. Sasquatch B Studios Full Screen Outline using Edge Detection - Unity URP Tutorial - In this tutorial, I will show you how to get full screen outlines using "Scharr operator" Edge detection algorithm using Unity 6 in Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Digvijaysinh Gohil Getting Starting Using Android XR in Unity - Join Sr. Advocate of Emerging Tech, Manuel Sainsily and members of the XR team to learn how to get started developing using Android XR. Unity Finally, a Unity Dependency Injection Framework That Just Works - Dependency injection in Unity doesn’t have to be heavy or slow. Reflex is a lightweight, high-performance DI framework designed specifically for Unity projects. It supports scoped and hierarchical containers, AOT compatibility (including IL2CPP and WebGL), and dramatically outperforms Zenject and VContainer in both speed and GC allocations. git-amend Assets Mega Mix - Unity Asset Store Pack - Hot new assets for Unity. Dive into our latest Humble Software Bundle and add hot new assets to your next game or creative project! The Unity Asset Mega Mix Bundle offers 25+ outstanding asset packs bursting with style. Pay what you want and get amazing asset packs like the Modular Castle & Dungeon pack, Blood Effects Pack, Mystify FX pack, and more.  Get the professional-quality assets you need to help bring your game to life, and help support Girls Who Code with your purchase! Humble Bundle Affiliate The Ultimate SFX and VFX Bundle - Turn up the volume with powerful assets Crank up the volume on your next game or creative project with The Ultimate SFX & VFX Bundle. Create the perfect audio-visual vibe with this massive library of royalty-free assets—featuring 100+ sounds and effects, from realistic medieval combat clinks and clanks to spot-on gunfire and more. Pay what you want for the tools you need to dial in your project’s SFX & VFX—and help support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation with your purchase! Humble Bundle Affiliate Shop up to 50% off PONETI - Publisher Sale - PONETI - is known for its variety of UIs and high-quality 2D art. Every icon is hand-painted. Using new icons and map creator can significantly improve visual aspects of your project. PLUS get Classic RPG GUI for FREE with code PONETI2025 Unity Affiliate EditorAttributes - EditorAttributes is a unity package that adds some extra editor attributes to your project to easily customize your editors without having to write any editor code. v0lt13 Open Source Medicine - Code-driven component injection toolkit for Unity. apkd Open Source Fyfy - FYFY (FamilY For unitY) is an Entity Component System framework (ECS) specially made for Unity. Mocahteam Open Source Pixel-Art-Creator-2.0 - A program for making pixel art, including layers, animation and tilesets. MrWoafer Open Source avautils - A set of utilities for manually optimize/modify avatars within Unity JLChnToZ Open Source Simple-Screen-Manager-for-Unity-aka-SS - A simple and scalable Unity library for managing and navigating UI with high performance and reusability. AnhPham Open Source UnitySteamBuildUploader - Editor tool to help you upload builds to online services. Steam being the obvious JamesVeug Open Source Traffic-Toolkit-DOTS - This high performance tool will let you create dynamic city wide traffic powered by Unity’s DOTS Entities for MASSIVE scale and ultra smooth performance. Mobile friendly and capable of simulating thousands of realistic vehicles. pekaram Open Source UniSharper.Core - UniSharper.Core is a unity package that contains scripts, plugins and assets for general unity application development. iDreamsOfGame Open Source urg-unity - URG a.k.a. Sokuiki sensor library for Unity written in pure C# curiosity-inc Open Source UniStats - A Simple FPS / Stats monitor based on UIToolkit. (Unity) witalosk 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 Noise Generator - A simple random noise generator by Bubblebird Studio. noisegen.bubblebirdstudio.com   Big Bang Unreal & Unity Asset Packs Bundle - 5000+ unrivaled assets in one bundle. Calling all game devs—build your worlds with this gigantic bundle of over 5000 assets, including realistic and stylized environments, SFX packs, and powerful tools. Perfect for hobbyists, beginners, and professional developers alike, you'll gain access to essential resources, tutorials, and beta-testing–ready content to start building immediately. The experts at Leartes Studios have curated an amazing library packed with value, featuring environments, VFX packs, and tutorial courses on Unreal Engine, Blender, Substance Painter, and ZBrush. Get the assets you need to bring your game to life—and help support One Tree Planted with your purchase! This bundle provides Unity Asset Store keys directly with your purchase, and FAB keys via redemption through Cosmos, if the product is available on those platforms. Humble Bundle Affiliate   Become a 3D Environment/Prop Artist Mega Tutorial Bundle - Create your own immersive 3D environments. Curious about advanced game development and creation? Then become a 3D environmental artist with our latest Mega Tutorial Bundle! Get hot courses and asset packs like the Japanese Environment pack, Large Game Environment Creation guide, Creating Low-Poly Stylized 3D Weapons course, and more. Learn how to build beautiful cherry blossom fields, develop open-world maps, and manipulate low-polygon assets for added style. Pay what you want for professional-quality tools and help support Special Effect with your purchase! Humble Bundle Affiliate Game Spotlight ITER - Journey to the Surface - Explore, Develop, Fight, Die… Repeat! Welcome to the frontline! Workers are as expendable as they are useful. Your job is to mine resources, upgrade equipment, defend your base and restore power to the Undercity. [You can wishlist it on Steam and play the demo on Itch.io] fluckyMachine 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.