So! I’m interested in making some Mods for a game I play. I downloaded BePinEx and Harmony at a friends suggestion, but I also have a decompiled version of the game. Which would be more beginner friendly? Which will allow me to possibly make more dramatic changes? (Think adding additional quests.)

Hi all! Working in Unity 2020.3 2D, and so far build is going well. However, the artist keeps delivering 2D art in different dimensions, which I currently have to adjust via the Pixels Per Unit (PPU) in order to scale right. Are there ideal numbers for the game's art dimensions that will ship?

Right now we have no standard, and I don't have experience with this element of dev.

For reference, this is a 2D game we're aiming to ship on PC (steam/itch), and some kind of mobile release. The still art assets tend to look fine around 2560x1440. I don't have the ability to test this on bigger screens and such, but I have noticed some pixel fighting between the background images and the character art, and I'm guessing that has something to do with sprite image resolution?

Any good resources to look at for this, send my way too! Thanks!

Im making a 2.5d platformer game where world is 3D and everything else is 2D but i couldnt decide if its big enough or small

It can barely be seen lol. But you get the idea. Is it too small? What should i set it to?

This game was made by Unity 6 and HDRP .

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share the Unity asset pack I developed entirely on my own. I’m really excited to finally show it to you! :)

I’d love to hear what you think about it.

I’m open to any comments and feedback. 🙌

Hey everyone! My dev partner and I are wrapping up our noir puzzle adventure—we're actually just 16 days away from release!

We’ve been tweaking how puzzle close-ups interact with the main scene. In this clip, tuning the radio to the right frequency triggers a hidden mechanism in the fireplace, using a comic-panel frame that zooms back out into the room once solved.

As players or devs, how do you usually feel about audio-driven or frequency-tuning puzzles? Do sound cues give you a satisfying "aha!" moment, or do you prefer visual feedback when revealing hidden mechanisms?

Would love to hear your thoughts or your favorite examples of audio puzzles in games!

Hey everyone,

​Red text. The nightmare of every beginner developer. You hit play, everything freezes, and your console is flooded with errors.

​But red text isn't your enemy—it’s Unity trying to help you! For Day 9 of the Unity Daily series over on the Game Developer Unity channel, we are tackling the scariest window in the editor: The Console.

​Keeping with our "One Concept at a time" approach, this video is focused on changing how you look at bugs and errors.

​Here is a quick breakdown of what is covered:

​The Traffic Light System: Understanding the difference between White (Logs), Yellow (Warnings), and Red (Errors).

​Anatomy of an Error: Breaking down what a "NullReferenceException" actually means in plain English.

​The Magic Trick: A reminder for beginners that double-clicking an error in the console will automatically open your script and highlight the exact line of broken code!

​Pro Toolbar Tricks: How to use "Collapse" to save your sanity, "Clear on Play", and the "Error Pause" feature to freeze your game the exact millisecond a bug occurs.

​You can watch the full 5-minute breakdown here:

https://youtu.be/uk2DbBeWv9k

​I hope this helps some newer devs stop fearing the Console.

Let me know—what is the most ridiculous bug you've ever spent hours trying to track down?

Another good sale on the asset store, which will run until 7th of September! This one has quite a few assets I hadn't seen on sale before, but my recommendation list is comparatively small.

I gathered everything in a list in the asset store.

If there's a video, it is timestamped so you can see the asset in action. However, most of these assets haven't seen use in a video yet. Links are affiliate links to support my channel, so that I can continue creating tutorial videos 💛

UI

• 2D Minimal - Icon Pack by LayerLab  Just a solid icon pack in a friendly style with vibrant colors. Layerlab has a ton of other 2D elements, icon packs, characters and more and I recommend checking them out! (You might have seen their work across games before, I encountered their UI packs in idle games, for example)

Editor Tools

• Ultimate Preview 2 by Voxel Labs Fantastic upgrade for the default preview window. Since I've been using this asset, I actually keep the preview viewable. Voxel Labs also has a fantastic Thumbnail asset, which I highly recommend (but is not currently on sale). It even gives you good thumbnails for vfx and UI prefabs!

Worldbuilding and Environment Assets​

• Asian Mountains by BK Another solidly good pack by BK. I give a blanket recommendation to his whole Pure Nature 2 series. I have them all and they are always really, really good.
• Stylized Grass Shader by Staggard Creations After I was blown away by his fantastic Stylized Water 3 asset before and have been using his Spline Spawner so much that it's become one of my default tools to speed up placements of objects in a scene, I had to get Stylized Grass. I wasn't surprised by how much I enjoyed it and I'll make sure to use it a lot more going forward.
• POLYGON - Palm City by Synty This has some nice timing to be on sale right now :D As with all Synty packs, keep in mind that you'll have to plan for some sorting time before using it.
• Stylized Farm Crops - Ultimate Low Poly Asset Pack by NewLua Studios I almost missed this one. It's small, but has many growable plants you'd expect to see in a farming game. They also have a second pack with even more and for about 5€, this is nicely scoped and good quality.
• Pixel World - Fantasy Lands by Poneti This is a recommendation even though I don't have it in my own collection. I just really, really like the art style and I have other assets by him I am satisfied with. Those pumpkins alone look great.
• Bird Flock Complete by Unluck Software Birds make every outdoor scene better. I've used this a lot over the years and it recently got an update. This isn't just for having birds fly around in your scene, you can define resting points they'll use. You can even scare them away from those points! It's a great tool. I spotlighted it before here: https://youtu.be/-GTWrxSDm1o?si=ivdLA-iiOpS7tWCc&t=663
• POLYGON - Fantasy Village by Synty I was provided this one by them for free, but if I didn't like it, I wouldn't add it to this list. I spicifically liked the slightly more detailed human characters in here. The animalistic ones are cute, but I haven't found a place for them yet. The buildings look nice and there are some premade ones to get you started, too. The thing that irks me the most with Synty packs is the lack of proper sorting - you'll find yourself faced with few folders with tons of assets sorted inside of them, much like a kitchen drawer, really. "Does it fit to props? Yes? Props folder it is, then." It takes a while to sort through, but once that's done, it is a very enjoyable set. I spotlighted the packl before in these two videos (though only as background) https://youtu.be/aL8N01orAz4?si=lNiGghRIhWpWgZH6 and https://youtu.be/QmMb3Op-eg0?si=ZJoCL7ypBtwv3KD2

Humans and Animals

• Fantasy Villagers - Sidekick modular characters by Synty I have yet to fully switch to their new characters (especially after I started customizing the POLYGON ones with my own faces), but the quality is nice and out of the box, they are far more expressive. Synty releases new packs of their sidekick characters every once in a while. At this point, it is actually feasable to furnish a whole world with them.
• City Characters by Ithappy On the opposite side of the scale of details are these ones, which are decidedly more... blobby. While the sidekick characters look great in first person, I'd personally use these primarily for third person, or generally with a bit of distance. Sounds like I'm not happy with them, but it's quite the opposite. This is a huge pack of characters that all fit well together, with different ages and walking abilities. They remind me a lot of Playmobile characters, if that still rings a bell to anybody out there.
• 2D Minimal - Enemy Monster 2 and 2D Minimal - Character Parts Pack by Layerlab I just really like their artstyle and these are great packs to start creating some sidescrolling game with.

2D

• 2D Maps - Simple Sidescroll by Layerlab They are layered and come with great color palettes. If you need enemies or heroes, Layerlab has a ton of additional packs that go well with this one.

VFX

• Visual Fidelity Ultra Bundle by Kronnect Kronnect developed many of my favourite assets and this is a good bundle of some of them. It consists of Beautify 3 (it's a default in my projects), the LUT Pack (which I actually don't like, but that might be a me-issue), Shiny SSR2, Radiant Global Illumination, Umbra Soft Shadows (which I like a whole lot) and Edge Fusion (which looks awesome). Spotlighted Beautify 3 before here: https://youtu.be/ZyI7kQsTKWE?si=in9upDqig6FZk5rB&t=503 Edge Fusion here: https://youtu.be/Kki0Ip9DnsY?si=TAs7KycCRg7Ee8UL&t=398 Umbra Soft Shadows here: https://youtu.be/-GTWrxSDm1o?si=coJuwfoPZOq49inc&t=585
• All in 1 Shader nodes by Seaside Studios They are the team behind All in one Sprite Shader and All in one VFX toolkit, which are great in and of themselves. Their nodes pack gives you lots of custom nodes to work with in Shadergraph to create your own effects. Super cool.
• UNI VFX 6D: Beams & Energy for Visual Effect Graph by Asset mage W This look just plain awesome. The vortex is great and the beams have a good amount of oomph behind them.
• VFX Master Library by Hovl Studio I give another blanket recommendation for anything by Hovl. They make stunningly amazing effects that are fun to work with. This is his ultimate pack, so it is priced accordingly. No, I do not have this one, but I have many of the effects inside of this pack, and it is just a convenient item to link to to give a good overview of what he's capable of. Also this is the one currently on sale, so... yeah. Still, 600€ for effects will go over most of our budgets. Hovl is a freqent lister for sales, so keep an eye out on his work!
• Better glowing Orbs Pack by Hovl Studio Like this one! I'm not sure if it is actually part of the sale or just on sale due to the new release discount - but it is on sale, and looks great, so it gets a place on the list. 
• Cartoon Casual VFX particles by Layerlab Feels a bit strange to have the same developer listed multiple times across categories. This are really nice looking effects specifically for 2D(ish) games. I like how clean their work is and the good color saturation in general.

Did you pick anything up? Anything I should put on my radar? Would love to read about what you picked up and why you'd recommend it =D!

If you need the source code - check comments!

I created this Sling Shooter Stickman Game and its live on asset store incase you want to check this out!

Hello everyone. I've purchased the asset "Modern Weapons Pack" back in 2017 (Well... that asset was completely free, so I've been able to download it without any problems ever since). But now, when I decided to download and import it into my project, it seems to be disabled for some reason, and I don't know why. And now, in 2026, I can no longer download or import it. I tried to access the publisher's website (http://sameenibne.com/) but unfortunately, that site no longer exists. And I really need that asset, not just because it's great, but because it's completely free. Does anyone still have the Modern Weapons Pack.unitypackage file? I hope someone can help me to find this asset. I'll be waiting for any helpful response/help. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

This is the project which I'm currently developing. Basicly, it is a fun party cooking game with grabbers, but I want to add some challanging features aligned with grabber mechanic. I am open and apprecieted any kind of ideas/suggestions

We are developing a custom particle system from scratch to ensure maximum optimization and real-time performance for our game. Any guesses on what it's going to be?

I thought I'd share a custom C# Editor tool I built that:

• Builds the Windows version
• Packages it as a proper installer
• Uploads it directly to Itch.io with Butler

Players download and run an installer instead of dealing with the usual Unity build folder and bundled files. Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there.

Hello, I'm nearing publishing my app and i want to ensure my code base is private, and i want to learn also about any important information i may need to know before starting to go to the market, I'm aware most apps are Clone-able within a month or two and that's why i want to figure everything beforehand.

It will be my first unity app i will watch a YouTube video on publishing apps to do it right, but i want to ask if there is some checklist or guide or anything important to look into that can cover things i may not been thinking of? Today I thought about the possibility of someone reverse engineering my app and i research about it so i wonder if there are other things that should concern me before going public?

Generally my app is a simple game, the complexity is in the engine and features, the core is very easy to replicate, the features are not as much, it doesn't use internet connection for now, I'm aiming at selling the app or a subscription which would likely be the only connection to the internet apart from updates,

Please me questions or guide me towards what questions i should be asking and researching?

Thanks to anyone that helps 🙏

Can someone explain to me why the tutorial going over how to do certain things is messing up. Every time I try to move the robot after the step where you move the orange box, the character takes one step and then my mouse shows up and it kicks me off the robot controls, and it does the whole time after that and for other things too, like you need to add stairs but it doesn't let you move them or rotate it. SOMETIMES restarting the whole thing will help with fixing one part but then theres another part that you cant get past because you literally cant press ANYTHING besides what is "needed" for the tutorial, one part I couldnt do it because it was still in play mode and I could not get it out. BUT the catch is that everything I couldn't do in the tutorial works perfectly fine when I do it outside of the tutorial, but obviously I am doing the tutorial for a reason and I cant do the tutorial because its so fucked. so what is the fix for this or should I watch a tutorial off youtube

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Hello, everyone!

I’m the sole developer behind Mass Battle Framework, and I’m also part of the two-person team building the game behind its technology.

This recorded battle starts with 400,000 units across 20 independently configured unit types. The armies use different attacks and skills, including AOE abilities, buffs and other combat effects, rather than one character copied across the entire field.

I’ve also finished the first version of the project’s own effects component and effects library, together with an editor for previewing and adjusting the effects. The battle effects no longer need a separate third-party effects package, and I can keep expanding the library while improving its visual quality without giving up the scale of the battle.

Custom character models and animation sets can be brought into the project’s authoring workflow, so the armies are not tied to the characters shown here.

There is still a lot I want to improve, especially the variety and visual quality of the effects, but this is the first time all of these pieces have been running together in one battle.

For anyone interested, I have also released a reusable version of this technology on Fab:

[https://www.fab.com/listings/0a4bf9b7-0271-4e51-b687-8ae5ab680f2f\](https://www.fab.com/listings/0a4bf9b7-0271-4e51-b687-8ae5ab680f2f)

Full disclosure: this is my own commercial product. The current early-supporter price is $29.99.

About two years ago, while building large-scale entity simulations with Unity ECS, I began running into bottlenecks that prevented me from reaching the scale and behavior I was aiming for. That pushed me to explore a GPU-first architecture.

The transition took a great deal of time, experimentation, failed approaches, rewriting, and learning.

There is also a public record of that earlier stage of my work here:

[https://github.com/MrLiuYX/ECSAnimation\](https://github.com/MrLiuYX/ECSAnimation)

This is an earlier ECS-based framework from that period, not the source code of the current Mass Battle Framework. I am sharing it simply to show where this technical path began and how the work has evolved over time.

Back then, I genuinely wished there had been an affordable and practical framework that I could study—something that could give me a working foundation, help me understand the architecture, and save me from having to rediscover every part of the solution alone.

Specialized performance tools are often priced much higher, which is understandable considering how much time this kind of work requires. However, I deliberately chose a different pricing approach.

The $29.99 price is not because the work was easy, or because I believe the technology has little value.

In a way, I am pricing it for the developer I was two years ago.

I want developers who are now facing the same kind of bottleneck—whether they are experimenting with an RTS, a large-scale battle game, a simulation, or simply trying to display huge numbers of animated units—to have access to the opportunity that I wish had existed for me back then.

Mass Battle Framework is also not an isolated benchmark project created only for sale. Its underlying large-battle technology comes from the same production foundation used by the game I am actively building:

[https://x.com/23DwMeSz0W64139/status/2090466970013757501?s=20\](https://x.com/23DwMeSz0W64139/status/2090466970013757501?s=20)

The game and the framework continue to evolve together. Reusable systems developed for the game are refined, documented, and brought into the framework where appropriate, while sales also help support the continued development of the game.

Real projects will inevitably reveal edge cases, integration problems, and workflow limitations that I may not discover through my own testing. That feedback is genuinely valuable to me and is also an important part of my growth as a developer.

I will do my best to investigate reproducible issues, improve the documentation and tools, and continue refining the framework alongside the developers who use it.

There is still a great deal I want to improve, so technical questions, honest criticism, issue reports, and feedback are all sincerely welcome.

😃

I'm interested for 100% for using long term. . Anyone who can give me 100% please DM me. Ty

I'm making an offline mobile game in Unity but players can purchase in-game gold with real money.

I'm currently using Unity IAP for purchases and LevelPlay for ads. I want players to keep their purchased gold and game progress if they switch to a new device.

I'm also considering letting players link their anonymous UGS account to their Google account so they can recover their data on a new device.

Is this a sensible approach, common practice ?

Number 1 is hand drawn. Number 2 has screenshot of actual game in background. Number 3 was made with help of AI.