Issue #141 — Solo Development, and More! This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Helpful tips for solo devs and small teams, plus a lot more. Enjoy! The Worst Bug Ever — Randomly Losing Your Best Players — Imagine discovering a serious bug in production immediately after releasing your game. Imagine this bug hurts only your paying…

Issue #140 — Retro And Polish This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Take a look at some graphical styles inspired from the past, plus a lot more. Enjoy! Creating Poison Projectile VFX in Houdini, Unity & Unreal Engine — Pawel Margacz told us about the working process behind the VFX Poison Projectile project, talked about…

Issue #139 — Design Patterns This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Design patterns and more in this issue. Enjoy! Strategy Pattern In Unity — The strategy pattern is all about encapsulating or wrapping up a behavior or algorithm in its own class. It has the added bonus of allowing behaviors or algorithms to be…

Issue #138 — Better UI This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Improve your UI with these tips and tutorials, plus a lot more. Enjoy! Use style transitions to animate a menu with UI Toolkit — Including animations in your user interface can take it to the next level and really make it pop. This…

Issue #137 — Unity 2021 LTS This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Unity 2021 LTS is here. Check out the cool new features, and enjoy! Introducing Unity 2021 LTS — Unity 2021 LTS delivers powerful improvements to workflows, rendering capabilities, and platform support to help you realize your creative ambitions. New enhancements prioritize quality, productivity…

Issue #136 — The Creator’s Journey This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Hopefully you find something helpful from this issue for your own gamedev journey. Enjoy! The best — and worst — ways to pitch media for game discovery? — I talk to Kate Gray — a veteran writer for sites like NintendoLife, Kotaku, and…

Issue #135 — Breaking The Rules This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Get inspiration for your own game with these posts. As always, enjoy! Josh Wardle reflects on the the unconventional road to Wordle’s success — The story of Wordle is a tale built around doing several things that game developers generally are not meant…

Issue #134 — Unity’s Latest Changes This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Get all the latest news from Unity’s GDC updates as well as the usual batch of great content from the Unity community. Enjoy! Rendering realtime caustics — I will go over my method of rendering real-time caustics. The goal is not to generate…

Issue #133 — State Of Games In 2022 This article was originally published on GameDevDigest.com Tons this week including multiplayer stacks, cloth, rope, hair, game tutorials and more. Enjoy! Unity Gaming Report 2022: Five insights on the gaming industry today — Read on to learn about five insights on the state of the gaming industry today, to hone…