Here's a quick breakdown on Unity's "Has Exit Time" which can help stop your animations from clipping early or feeling stiff. #gamedev #unity3d #indiedev #madewithunity #unitytips

Your game can look amazing and still lose players if it lags. Here's how to open Unity's Profiler, read the frame timeline, and find exactly which script is slowing you down. #gamedev #unity3d #unitytips #madewithunity #indiedev

Avatar masks let you blend multiple animations on the same character at the same time. This is great for playing upper body combat actions while your character keeps moving. Here's how to set it up. youtube.com/shorts/r16Cz... #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #unitytips #madewithunity

Combine Two Animations Together With Avatar Masks #gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity #indiedev

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Next tutorial is in the works! This one will explore creating runtime items from scriptable objects using the factory pattern. #unity3d #gamedev #unitytips #indiedev

New tutorial is out! This is all about getting started with the Unity CLI and goes over how you can install, configure and even create your own custom commands. youtu.be/OuDC-sQdogU #Unity3D #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #unitytips

Getting Started with the New Unity CLI

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Marking your objects static in Unity is a great way to optimize for performance. Here's what you need to know. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #Unitytips #madewithunity

I had a chance to play around with the new Unity CLI. I've got it injecting code during runtime, which gave me an awesome idea for how to use it in my game. New tutorial coming soon! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity

I've moved from Copilot over to local models and I can now see why people are so vastly split on whether AI is "helpful" or good at <insert task>. When you work with local models you need to account for the amount of lift harnesses like Claude are doing behind the scenes and compensate.

Blend Trees are great for smoothing out animation transitions, and there are several types to choose from. A 1D Blend Tree blends animations based on a single value, like movement speed. Here's how to set it up. https://youtube.com/shorts/uHavxTQByQ8 #unity3d #gamedev #unitytips #indiedev

Setting Up a 1D Blend Tree in Unity #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #unitytips #madewithunity

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Unity MCP is free again and has no concurrency limits now. It has a lot more use cases than "build a prototype from scratch". Here's an example on how I've used it. #gamedev #unity3d #madewithunity #indiedev #ai

Did you know your animations can call your code at specific frames in Unity? Here's how to set it up. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #Unitytips #madewithunity

Introducing the Unity CLI: our new terminal-native path for connecting coding agents, CI pipelines, & custom tooling. Unity MCP remains fully supported for your existing setups but to help with the transition, the CLI includes an "MCP Mode," allowing you to leverage existing MCP-based agents.

Animation curves are incredibly useful for creating non-linear behavior. I've used them for controlling the arc of a throw, movement behaviors, and more. Here's a quick tip on how to work with them. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Here's how you can add gizmos in your Unity scene to visualize complex mechanics or just help with debugging. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Tried to finish tonight's tip before bed. Instead I spent 20 minutes playing 'chase the mouse cursor' with this adorable fluffball. 10/10, would recommend.

Next tutorial is out! Tired of chasing down every place a singleton gets called? Learn how to set up an event bus in 5 minutes so that your systems are decoupled. Each piece of logic only knows what it needs to. youtu.be/331VOCEVUOo #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Stop Using Singletons in Unity | Game Systems Explained

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Just about done with my next tutorial. You'll learn all about the event bus pattern as an alternative to singletons in only 5 minutes. (Also, I've been having a bit of fun with the theory part....) #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #godot #monogame

Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! This made me laugh so much I just had to share it. Hope it puts a smile on your face today!

Here are four underused but powerful attributes that you can use to streamline your Unity inspector. I learned about the enum one pretty recently and it's now my favorite. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Here are my most used attributes that help keep my inspector clean and organized. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Have you ever needed to validate Inspector values using dynamic data? OnValidate runs every time you edit a field in the Inspector, so you can catch a bad value and fix it before it causes a problem later. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #untytips

Here's another fun tip: You can use Vector3.Dot() to easily check whether two game objects are facing the same direction. #gamedev #unity3d #unitytips #indiedev #madewithunity

Your object doesn't just rotate from one point. You can move the pivot and completely change how something spins, orbits, or animates. Small trick, but it opens up a lot once you know it's there. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

Have you ever renamed a field in Unity and watched your Inspector values disappear? Yeah, me too. Here's how you can avoid that from happening again. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #csharp

Kids crack me up. I just had this conversation with my six year old: Son: "Mom, what does ordinary mean?" Me: "Nothing special" Son: "I just want to know..."

I had a couple modular pieces flickering when the camera moved. This is because the modular assets didn't quite line up so the render was having issues. Here's how you can easily fix that without redoing the models. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign

Join Tom TODAY for Our weekly CodeTime! as he works on the DX12 backend! When: FRIDAY @ 15:00 EDT, 20:00 UTC+1/BST, 21:00 CEST Watch him on: FB: www.facebook.com/monogamecomm... TW: www.twitch.tv/monogame YT: www.youtube.com/@MonoGame/st... #gamedev #indie #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment

Here's another fun fact! You can use shift + ctrl in Unity to toggle surface snapping. Grab the center box & drag it to another mesh. As long as the receiver has a collider it'll snap. Happy level designing! #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign

New episode of #QuestToCompile is out! We're getting into version control for game dev, why binary assets make it harder, and how you can set up Git to handle it. #unity3d #godot #monogame #gamedev #versioncontrol #github #indiedev youtu.be/MB5U9Rh4pJo

Getting Started with Git for Game Dev | Quest to Compile

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My 6 yo requested new assets to spruce up the treasure chest in my tutorial. I made a necklace from his sketch, added gems, and made a coin insert. Got 2 more items left. His smile when he saw his concept drawing come to life in the game was amazing. #gamedev #indiedev #blender3d #unity3d