Issue #249 - Game Art, and more

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Hope your game dev efforts are going well. Here is another issue, enjoy!

The Art of Hooking Your Audience: Crafting Killer Game Trailer Openings - How to create an effective game trailer.
Nikita Sidorenko

Maze 3.0.0 - Building Cells. The big change is that we're going to use a new approach to build maze cell visualizations.
catlikecoding.com

C# Tip: 2 ways to use custom equality rules in a HashSet - With HashSet, you can get a list of different items in a performant way. What if you need a custom way to define when two objects are equal?
code4it.dev

Creating a Spatial Query System - Spatial query systems have become an essential tool for enabling intelligent AI behaviors in complex game environments. In this article, we'll walk through the key concepts and components required to build your own.
gamedeveloper.com

Videos

Training AI to Solve Puzzles in Little Learning Machines - Little Learning Machines is a puzzle game with a fairly unique premise: rather than solving the puzzles yourself, you train non-player characters called Animos to solve them for you.
AI and Games

How I Make MODULAR Collectables in My Game (Unity Tutorial) - I like to keep things as simple as possible, while also trying to avoid duplicating work down the line. So this is a simple yet powerful method to create ALL kinds of collectables for your game, which can very easily be expanded upon.
Sasquatch B Studios

Every game designer should understand Orthogonal Design - Hey - I want to talk about a game design concept that I think every game designer and level designer should know.
Steve Lee (Level and Game Design)

Essential Elements of Cinemachine 3.1 - Cinemachine 3 has been overhauled with some major breaking changes and the introduction of a New Event Architecture and a New Spline Integration. Find out what's changed in the Cinemachine API and how you can upgrade your project and take advantage of the new features!
git-amend

The Rise of Indie Game Animation - This was a fun video to make, I hope you enjoy my thoughts on indie game animation.
Video Game Animation Study

Why you Draw Bad Assets || 2D Game Art - An introduction on how to pick assets to draw for you game and what you should focus on when you draw your assets.
Nonsensical 2D

Chromatic Bubble Shield (Unity Tutorial + FREE Project) - This is the third part, in which we make our sphere a LOT more cool.
Mirza

Pushing the boundaries of web games with Pigiama Kasama - Creator Spotlight - Learn about Pigiama Kasama's creative process, including getting the most out of a web game, reiterating 200 times to get a character right and using music to engross a player!
Unity

Assets

Learn To Create Game Art In Blender - Software Bundle - Create game art like a pro

Learn everything there is to know about gaming artistry with the GDTV Game Art Bundle of courses from GameDev.tv! Perfect for both beginners and experienced artists, this bundle covers animation and rigging, anime-style character creation, blending and visual effects, and more. It includes a comprehensive range of technical skills— you’ll master techniques applicable to various roles in any art department.

Support World Wildlife Fund with your purchase and start creating your own game art today!
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Sound FX Odyssey - Complete Cinema And Game Sound Design Software Bundle - Music Makes Moments. Create the perfect audioscape for your game, film, or creative project with this bundle of royalty-free sounds from W.A. Production! This massive library features regal tones, loops, samples, one-shots, instruments, MIDI files, SFX, and more, covering a wide range of genres and styles. Get the audio assets you need to achieve the vibes you’re looking for. Your purchase also supports the World Wildlife Fund—doesn’t that sound good?
Humble Bundle Affiliate

Chisel.Prototype - Work in progress prototype for the Chisel Level Editor, for Unity
RadicalCSG Open Source

ShaderGraphZ - Custom Node Shader Editor for Unity
z3y Open Source

schedule-master - A Unity Time and schedule manager to handle all kind of in game time related events.
FelixBole Open Source

Nova - Programmer-friendly framework for visual novels (VN) / text-based adventure games (AVG) on Unity
Lunatic-Works Open Source

BlobIO - This package adds the feature of letting the user download arbitrary data as a file or load a local file of the user's choice in the Unity WebGL build.
ruccho Open Source

LabelFromString - (Unity) Editor Inspector Attribute for customize property labels
AlexeyTaranov Open Source

uNode - High performance visual scripting for Unity
wahidrachmawan Open Source

Unity_VirtualizingTreeView - VirtualizingTreeView is a Unity UI control that can be used to represent hierarchical data. VirtualzingTreeView implements drag & drop, databinding, selection operations and is highly customizable.
BattlehubCode Open Source

PathTools - a Custom bezier path tools fo Unity
romifauzi Open Source

tools-motion-kit - MotionKit is a Unity engine tool that animates anything. It is very similar to DOTween, but with inspector super powers and a few tweaks that makes it simpler to use and learn.
cocodrilodog Open Source

BlendShare - BlendShare is an Unity tool designed for creators who need to share blendshapes without distributing the original FBX files. This tool enables the extraction of blendshapes from FBX files and stores them in a custom asset format. These assets can be easily shared and applied to compatible FBX files.
Tr1turbo Open Source

Unity-BodyMorph - A tool for adjusting bone proportions in real time for Unity Humanoid Rigs.
SerhatDikel Open Source

UnityURP-InfiniteGrassField - An Infinite GPU Instanced Grass Field that doesn't require storing trillions of positions in memory
Youssef-Afella Open Source

Learn Godot 4.3 Complete Course Bundle - 30 Courses on Godot 4.3 in one bundle Perfect for beginners and veterans alike, our comprehensive bundle from Zenva covers everything you need to know about Godot 4.3. This diverse library will help you level up your skills with courses like Build a Complete Hyper-casual Game, Create an Open World Survival Game, The Complete Godot for Unity Developers Course, and more. Get the expert advice and knowledge you seek while supporting NPower with your purchase!
Humble Bundle Affiliate

nanite-webgpu - UE5's Nanite implementation using WebGPU. Includes the meshlet LOD hierarchy, software rasterizer and billboard impostors. Culling on both per-instance and per-meshlet basis.
Scthe Open Source

50% off Archanor VFX - Publisher Sale - Archanor VFX specializes in crafting extensive, high-quality VFX asset packs for indie game developers. Since 2014, their optimized effects have breathed life into games, enhancing immersion and performance. PLUS, get Super Confetti FX for FREE with code ARCHANOR
Unity Affiliate

Game Creator Mega Bundle - One-Stop Shop For World Building Game developers, build your dream worlds with our ultimate bundle of 100+ assets! This high-quality collection features environments, characters, meshes, models, animations, music, SFX, and much more for use in engines including RPG Maker, Game Maker, Unity and Godot. Get this incredible bundle of assets to help bring your game development aspirations to life.
Downloading supports our featured charity, Breakthrough T1D too!
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Spotlight

13Z - Embark on a quest to become the 13th Zodiac in this frantic hack-and-slash roguelike action adventure. Take on a celestial trial of grit, speed and power, and rise stronger after each fall as you upgrade your skills. Your trial awaits!

[You can wishlist it on Steam and follow them on Twitter]
Mixed Realms Pte Ltd

My game, Call Of Dookie. Demo available on Steam

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