Issue #316 - VFX Grass, Portals, C# Coding, and more

5 Reasons Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound gets Difficulty Right - The Game Kitchen finds the right balance between fun and frustration! aiandgames.com Understanding QuadTrees: organizing space to reduce unnecessary work - A QuadTree is a spatial data structure designed to organize objects in a two-dimensional space. Its main purpose is not data storage, but performance optimization: it helps answer spatial questions efficiently, such as: which objects are near this point? Which entities might collide? What lies inside this area? emanueleferonato.com Social & Community - Marketing your game on social media and trying to grow a community, this short but simple post writes about the base of getting started with SM/CM! gametaste.nl Spyro Inspired Portal - One thing that stood out to me was portals Spyro uses to travel between the worlds. They received a graphical upgrade compared to the original PlayStation 1 games, that made them so much more interesting to look at - I could just watch them all day with the calm music in the background. danielpokladek.me Jobs Get Unity Certified! Take aim at your dream job! A a certification that will help you stand out from the crowd. Videos VFX Grass with VFX Graph in 10 Minutes/1 Hour/1 Day | Clocked - Unity Senior Technical Artist Orson Favrel and Lead Learning Designer Aaron Sharp show us how to make VFX Grass with VFX Graph based on time constraints and how the approach differs depending on the circumstances. Unity How To Build A Rebindable Control Menu - In this video, we build a fully rebindable input system in Unity using the new Input System and UI Toolkit. Game Dev Guide I Upgraded Unity to C# 14 - Here's What Changed - What if you could use C# 14 features in Unity right now? The field keyword, primary constructors, collection expressions - all unlocked. Gamedev Engine Room Your Factory Pattern Might Be Wrong and You Don't Even Know It - Abstract Factory and Generic Factory are often treated as the same pattern — they’re not. In this video, we build a Unity combat system to compare them side by side, show their pitfalls, and demonstrate how they can work together when relationships are driven by data. git-amend Assets Battle Hardened Game Asset Bundle - Badass battle hardened game assets. Customize your next big action set piece with the ultimate collection of battle-hardened game assets by Hivemind! Light up the sky with realistic gun effects and set the perfect war scene in any era of history you choose—get the Townsmith: Modular Medieval Town Megapack, Modular Military Base Megapack, Ultimate Spaceship System, and much more. Create the realism of war with the very best battle-hardened game assets and help support the miracle workers at Make-A-Wish with your purchase. 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Humble Bundle Affiliate Uber-Stylized-Water - An highly customizable stylized water shader for Unity 6 MatrixRex Open Source ForwardPlusURP - The ForwardPlus renderFeature with Unity URP ForwardRenderer. AkilarLiao Open Source UnityInspectorStandalone - Runtime Inspector for Unity Games Mono/Il2Cpp PicoShot Open Source unity-ci-cd-system-template - Meant to serve as a simple template CI/CD system using GameCI for Unity games using GitHub Actions. Persomatey Open Source UnityTilemapMask - SpriteMask component but for Tilemaps justcoredev Open Source UnityConsole - A Unity Runtime Console using UI Toolkit BarionLP Open Source CommandSystem - An automated and extendable command system as Unity package BarionLP Open Source backlace - A versatile anime shader for Unity and VRChat. kleineluka Open Source Unity-External-Console - A simple script that shows an external CMD Console in runtime that displays all Unity log messages. 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