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Best Unity Assets: Boost Your Productivity With These Essential Tools

November 5, 2023May 26, 2024

Game development can be tedious and challenging. We spend a lot of time building tools and systems instead of actual gameplay mechanics and content. Fortunately, Unity’s Asset Store has tons of amazing resources that can really streamline your workflow and enhance your project. In this blog post, I’ll share my favorite (and even essential) Unity assets that I include in almost every project. These are the best assets out there that are critical for my productivity or a huge time saver.

App Development | Tutorials | Unity

Easy Unity Ads & Mediation for Mobile Tutorial

July 23, 2023November 5, 2023

Monetizing your mobile game is essential in generating revenue from your game and in this tutorial I will show you the easiest way I’ve found to integrate Ads & Mediation in Unity. We will take advantage of a really good asset to speed up our development and save time. We will also use Unity LevelPlay…

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Unity Android Debug Symbols Too Large Fix / Tutorial

May 22, 2021November 4, 2023

There is a 300MB file size limit for Unity Android Debug Symbols when uploading your apk/aab to the Google Play Console. These debug symbols are useful when debugging crashes from your players. The debug symbols that Unity generates is usually larger than the limit (500MB – 2GB). In my case, the debug symbols were always…

App Development | Tutorials | Unity

Unity Cooldown Timer Script Tutorial

January 21, 2020November 27, 2023

I wrote a tutorial a few years ago for creating a cooldown timer in unity. While that version worked fine, I’ve decided to update the tutorial and script with a more robust version that better suits unity. This cooldown timer is designed to be used for anything from abilities, monster spawners, weapon attacks, and much…

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Unit Testing in Unity

November 24, 2018June 2, 2024

I consider automated tests to be a cornerstone of building high quality software. Testing should be taken seriously in all aspects of software development and creating games in Unity should be no exception. In this tutorial I’ll focus on the unit testing aspect of test driven development (TDD). I’ve found that Unity resources and tutorials…

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Unity Cloud Build Tutorial and Review

August 16, 2018November 2, 2023

Cloud Build is a service that Unity offers that allows the automatic build, deploy, and testing of your games. I’ve been using it for over a year now and it’s one of the better solutions for continuous deployment on the Unity platform. In this tutorial I will go over steps on how to set it…

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Finding World Height and Width from Camera in Unity

November 22, 2017November 23, 2023

I saw this question pop up a few times on the forums recently so thought I’d share a quick tip on how to easily do this. The question is “How do I find the height and width in WORLD units that is visible in the current camera view”. It’s actually quite easy, here’s a quick…

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Scaling Unity Particles With Transform

October 25, 2017November 4, 2023

I was adding some particles to my Unity prototype and found myself unable to do any scaling of the particles using the game object’s transform. I wanted to programmatically scale them through the parent, but it seemed like the particle system was not affected by transform scale. After some digging, it turns out that there…

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Simple State Machines

June 6, 2017November 2, 2023

Quite commonly game state machines are designed to be overly complex and hard to understand. As the game expands, they become larger and harder to follow. Somehow the game still magically works and most of the time nothing is done to simplify it. Generally most games revolve around a few states and limiting the number…

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Tips That Every Indie Game Dev Should Follow

June 4, 2017November 2, 2023

Game Development doesn’t come easy. It’s even more daunting for the indie developer. Whether you’re just starting out or you have a few titles under your belt, here are some tips that every indie game developer should follow. Some of these are more technical, while others may be more of mindset, organizational tip, or a…