Game Dev Digest — Issue #257 - Lessons Learned, and more

Hey, back for another week of game dev news and tutorials. Enjoy!

Videos

- Learn to code the state machine that powers our procedural animation in this final tutorial of the series!

- Serializable Interfaces in Unity give you the ability to drag, drop, and serialize objects that implement a specific interface in Inspector fields, enabling powerful, type-safe assignments. Using a custom attribute, you can restrict assignments to components implementing a particular interface. Or use an open generic type that supports serialization of references, enforcing both base types and interface types.

- Cool particle systems have been popping up in games across the last decade. Why are these novel particle systems a new thing? What tech enables them? How many particles can a midrange gpu draw?

- Render Graph helps Unity's Render Pipeline optimize runtime rendering--that better performance provides broader and safer access for creating your own features. In this tutorial we create a dither effect Renderer Feature by using a Full Screen Shader Graph material with render graph's optimized resource management.

- Game Maker's Toolkit just turned 10 years old! Here are the ten biggest lessons I've learned from the last decade of learning about game design.

- It's over 10 years at this point since I started game development. I've made a ton of mistakes along the way but I also learned a ton and grew a lot in those 10 years and those growth and learning opportunities led me to finding a little bit of success



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- A library for procedural geometry creation and manipulation in Unity

- Easily and quickly create rule tiles in Unity.

- Volumetric Clouds for Unity URP (Universal Render Pipeline).

- A couple of attributes that help disabling Domain Reloading in Unity easier

- Giving AI/NPCs in Unity some abilities like being able to hear and respond to sounds.

- Dynamically fit uGUI Image to the screen. You can select Stretch, Fit, Fill.

- Now you can edit Volume properties in the Timeline more easily without writing code

- A procedurally animated spider in Unity using inverse kinematics.

- Adding comments to Inspector via a component in Unity

- Unity editor plugin for a git integration with Unity projects

- Read and write unity assets/bundle files, based on Open Source

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