Game Dev Digest — Issue #219 - Level Up Your Code

Issue #219 - Level Up Your Code

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- A continuation of the article series based on Winifred Phillips’ top-rated GDC 2023 lecture discussing her award-winning Jurassic World Primal Ops musical score. Included: how to incorporate thematic material into a chaotic musical score.

- The Specification Design Pattern is a software design pattern that allows developers to create reusable, composable, and extensible specifications that can be used to select objects from a collection based on business rules. This pattern is useful for validating complex business rules and filtering objects from large collections in a clean and concise way. By implementing the Specification Design Pattern, software engineers can improve the readability, maintainability, and scalability of their code.

- Jordi Cortés showed us the texturing workflow behind the Scooby-Doo Chevy SuperVan project, explained how every detail of the Mystery Machine was made in Mari and Maya, and shared some tips for artists.

- This robust sample features four environments with different art styles, rendering paths, and scene complexity to help you learn how to create and scale rich graphics across many platforms. From low- to high-end mobile, PC to console, and VR, we wanted to make a visually engaging experience so you can better learn and use URP. The sample is designed to help you build, optimize, and scale your next game efficiently against your target hardware.

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- Signed Distance Field (SDF) texture generator for Unity.

- UExtension is a basic type extension library for .Net and Unity projects. It integrates a large number of commonly used, efficient and convenient extension methods, which helps to greatly improve development efficiency.

- Key-Value Store save system interface and implementations for Unity

- Generates code to allow invoking FMOD events with a strongly-typed syntax.

- Asynchronous DIContainer for Unity

- Victor Toolkit for Unity Game and Editor Development, including Custom Preview, Revelear, Hiearchy, Scene Loader, Snap To Surface, Editor Tween, Highlighter and more

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- UnityEvents can now be collapsed and expanded just like a list!

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