Issue #199 - Inspiration Issue

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Here's some inspiration to keep on working, plus more content to help you on the way. Enjoy!

Aiming like the Golden(Eye) era - With the ever-evolving game industry, we've created a very different look on first-person shooter games. Comparing GoldenEye 007 to a modern-day first-person shooter is almost impossible due to the sheer number of differences. Although most mechanics of GoldenEye 007 are outdated, they could find their use even in modern-day games. I believe this to be especially true for their unique aiming mechanics.
bytehyve.com

This Website Allows You to Visit the Most Iconic Game Levels From the Browser - Meet noclip.website, a comprehensive "digital museum of video game levels".
80.lv

Scenario and AWS on AI Models & Working With Game Developers - Scenario's Marie Gerard and Amazon Web Services' Dan Carpenter have told us about Scenario's generative AI models, talked about AWS for Games and its gamedev solutions, and discussed Amazon's AI initiatives.
80.lv

The Ultimate-Rare story: 40 years of brilliant British games, from Jetpac and GoldenEye to Sea of Thieves - Forty years since the release of its first game, British developer Rare – formerly known as Ultimate – has cemented its place in gaming history. We look back at its origins on the ZX Spectrum and NES
theguardian.com

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED - Here's the text of a speech Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin & Hobbes comics) gave at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class. [Hey, it's not about game dev, but it is about following your creative passion!]
Bill Watterson

Videos

Don't Give Up On Your Game Dev Journey - do you remember that dream you had about being a game developer
Elusive Panda

Unleashing the Power of Event Channels in Unity - Implementing Event Channels in Unity allows us to decouple our Game Objects and make our projects more modular and resilient. It's easy to implement, and we're going to get into some practical examples. Once this system is built, we have all the major systems in place for our 3D Platformer vertical slice! …
git-amend

FULL SCREEN FX in Unity (and how to trigger with code) | Unity Tutorial - In this 2D Unity tutorial, we'll use Shader Graph to create some really nice full screen effects for your game. There are some new options built into Unity that now make this easier than ever, and since I don't want to leave you hanging, I'll show you how to trigger the effect with code at the end as well. We'll work with a nice "player damaged" effect at first, but we'll create some ful variations as well to show you how easy it is to create shader effects using Shader Graph.
Sasquatch B Studios

How To Create Beautiful Orbs in Unity - VFX Tutorial - On this Stylized Orb Unity tutorial I'm gonna show you a very nice trick to get awesome stylized effects! This Unity tutorial uses VFX Graph, Shader Graph, Blender, Material Maker and a little bit of magic.
Gabriel Aguiar Prod.

Simple outline shader! Toon shader? #Unity3D #unitytutorial #howto - Today we will going talk about how we can get simple outlines with Unity's shader graph. We will also talk out Toon shaders a bit.
Digvijaysinh Gohil

The Best Way How to Make A Game In Unity and C# - Nearly 20 years as a programmer and I still scour the internet trying to look for the best game architecture I can find. I still try to make my code as organized and maintainable and scalable as possible so that when I add new features down the line or design plans change it doesn't ruin and topple and break everything.
seekeroftheball

Assets

Dev Days Of Summer Sale - The Dev Days of Summer Sale lasts for three weeks and each week, approximately 100 different assets will be on sale for 50% off.

Including: All In 1 Vfx Toolkit, TopDown Engine, Gaia Pro 2021 - Terrain & Scene Generator, TCG Engine - Online Card Game, and more!
Unity Affiliate

Math For Programmers 2023 Book Bundle - Level up your programming fundamentals. Dive into math, machine learning, and other crucial disciplines and take your programming skills to the next level! Our latest bundle from Manning Publications will help you harness math to write better code, utilize deep learning across various languages and applications, and get up to speed on foundational concepts like functional programming, cryptography, and data structures. Pay what you want and help support Trees, Water & People with your purchase!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

AsyncImageLibrary - Load Image asynchronously from external environment without blocking Main-Thread. And powerful SkiaSharp Library implemented and wrapped for better and convenient usage.
SrejonKhan Open Source

Unity-ImageLoader - Async image loader with two caching layers for Unity.
IvanMurzak Open Source

games.noio.planter - The plant simulation from Cloud Gardens as a Unity package for level design. Plants are generated based on Branches. Each branch is a small piece of the plant, which will spawn "child" branches in specific positions.
noio Open Source

RuntimeTransformHandle - Runtime transform handle for Unity.
pshtif Open Source

facial-expressions-unity - Abstract facial expressions system of human models for Unity.
mochi-neko Open Source

Warcraft-Arena-Unity - World of Warcraft combat system implementation in Unity with Photon Bolt.
Reinisch Open Source

Solo Indie Game Dev Essentials Bundle - Succeed as a solo indie game developer. Whether you're making games as a hobby or your dream is to create video games for a living, this bundle of online courses from GameDev.tv will teach you the essentials that every solo indie developer needs! You’ll learn how to use engines like Godot, Unity, and Unreal to turn your vision into a playable game, get in-depth tutorials on how to create stunning pixel art and 3D assets, and more. You’ll also get a library of asset packs that’ll help you get your projects up and running in no time. Jumpstart your solo indie dev ambitions with this comprehensive curriculum, and help support One Tree Planted with your purchase!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Random-Generators - Random generators for Unity is a collection of random generators, different random engines, distributions, modificators and filters.
The library has a useful infrastructure that makes it easy to expand it and add new distributions, modificators, filters and random generators.
ZorPastaman Open Source

HdrpCustomSky - HdrpCustomSky is a Unity package that contains custom procedural sky renderers for HDRP.
keijiro Open Source

50% off Dungeon Mason - Publisher Sale - Dungeon Mason provides affordable, high-quality 3D assets while maintaining low-polygon mesh and atlased textures and materials to optimize mobile game development. Stay tuned for more environmental assets and add-on products. PLUS, get RTS Mini Legions Fantasy Polyart for FREE with code DUNGEONMASON
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UnityGUI - This is a library of GUI helpers for UGUI Includes a panel system that implements a navigation stack. Includes a scene transition system. Includes a SRP shader for blurring the background of UI panels.
coryleach Open Source

com.utilities.rest - A Utilities.Rest package for the Unity Game Engine.
RageAgainstThePixel Open Source

Relational-Databases-via-OOP - Simple OOP library for using relational database and having fun
Atennop1 Open Source

Spectacular Sounds & Marvelous Music Bundle - A universe of sound at your fingertips. Looking to add some pro-level audio to your game, app, or video project? This bundle of expertly crafted audio assets has the sound effects, voices, ambient sounds, and background music you’ll need to bring a layer of aural polish to your creation. You’ll get the hum and whizz of arcane energy, the crisp flutter of a stack of bills, and weapons fire and melee clanks galore. Get 10,000+ SFX files and 20+ hours of music to cover every genre—even background tracks for your UI—valued at over $900, and support the work of SpecialEffect with your purchase.
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The Complete Blender 3D Modeling Online Course Mega Bundle - Boost your 3D modeling skills. Get access to comprehensive tutorials that’ll help you bring your dreams to life with this mega bundle of Blender 3D modeling courses from Mammoth Interactive! Featuring over 68 hours of online tutorials being made available first exclusively through Humble Bundle, this comprehensive series includes foolproof, step-by-step, cookbook-style instructions to build a variety of characters, environments, and more. Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to take your 3D modeling skills to the next level, this bundle has it all. Help support Children's Miracle Network Hospitals with your purchase
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Spotlight

Secret Agent No. 6 - A first-person retro shooter with psychological horror elements. Discover various worldwide locations, enemies, weapons, and more. All while trying to uncover the plans of a secret terrorist organization while nothing is as it seems. Do you have what it takes to uncover the truth?

[You can wishlist it on Steam]
ByteHyve

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