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New course: Bolt Visual Scripting


Bolt Visual Scripting in Unity is designed for game developers of all levels who want to learn Unity’s official front end for visual scripting. If you’re new to Unity, Bolt is a great gateway into gameplay programming. If you’re an experienced developer, you may be surprised at how flexible it is and how closely it

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Make a Game Like Monument Valley in Unity


Have you ever wanted to make a game like Monument Valley?  This article (by yours truly) shows you how. Learn how the famous Monument Valley game mechanics and camera views work and create your own click-to-move game! You’ll also add a few really cool techniques to your Unity toolbelt.

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Unity Asset Store Mega Sale


For those hunkered down in your home office during this global pandemic, rejoice!  Unity has launched its annual spring sale. More than 500 of the Asset Store’s most popular assets are currently 50% off.  As a bonus, one high value asset is 70% off each day through April 21. Check out the sales items below:

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DOTS and Unity Learn updates


Introduction to DOTS For those of you following the YouTube channel, there is now a series of tutorials covering DOTS. These introduce its two main pillars, the Entity Component System (ECS) and the C# Job System. Though these are very simple examples, they emphasize the basic syntax in order to help you understand the non-OOP

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2020: Year of DOTS


Hey there. It’s been a while, so here’s an update. No, it’s not a Borg cube. DOTS It’s 2020 and the big news for Unity is DOTS!  After watching Unity’s Data-Oriented Tech Stack evolve over the last couple of years, we finally get to see DOTS out of preview.   You want 100,000 on-screen objects? Use

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Measured Material Library


Unity recently announced the Measured Materials Library. This is a set of 300 materials available for free, downloadable as a package from the Asset Store. Included are some detailed examples of: fabric/suede plastic leather wood metal and chrome car paint Many of these are complex with multiple layers of textures. Work with them directly in

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Unite Los Angeles 2018


Hey everyone, Unite 2018 is underway in Los Angeles!  In case you missed it last night, Unity announced some upcoming features, some available in the current 2018.3 beta and some coming in 2019. Highlights from the Keynote: Cinecast – Unity demoed a cool extension of their work on Cinemachine, allowing you to direct in-game cutting

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Welcome to 1.0!


Hey everyone!  Welcome to the new site! As many of you know, my efforts at Web development have been lagging.  Finally here is a slightly more complete version of GameAcademy.school. Full-length courses will continue on Udemy with this site offering additional resources. This should evolve as we continue into the future as a community. Thank you

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