Unity 2021.1 LTS Released -- Faster and More Stable? Yes Please!
Unity have just released Unity 2021 LTS or Long Term support version. While it's got a decent number of new features, this release is more focused on stability, quality and performance improvements, long overdue attributes for a Unity release.
Today we have another Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically if you are looking for audio or video software. This bundle was actually run back in August, so make sure you haven't already purchased it!
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/your-sounds-your-movies-rebundle-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/your-music-your-video-bundle-again/
The above links contain an affiliate code that enables you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks a ton if you do!)
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Unity are running a Best of 2018 sale on items from the Unity Store on the most popular assets of 2018. The cool twist on this sale is if you have an item in the list you don't need to pay for it and still get the 55% discount price.
Links
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/12/19/Unity-Best-Of-2018-Holiday-Sale-On-Now.aspx
https://assetstore.unity.com/g/best-of-2018?aid=1011l4rAy -- Best of 2018 Link
https://assetstore.unity.com/g/procedural-worlds-library?aid=1011l4rAy -- Procedural Worlds Collection Link
https://assetstore.unity.com/g/fantasy-creatures-library?aid=1011l4rAy -- Fantasy Creatures Library
https://assetstore.unity.com/g/polygon-library?aid=1011l4rAy -- Polygon Pack Library
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The Unreal Engine Mega Pack is a huge collection of high quality 3d environment assets.
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unreal-engine-mega-pack-software?partner=gamefromscratch
This pack from Hivemind contains thousands of 3D objects and blueprints for creating a wide variety of maps, including Viking, Medieval, Harbours, Churches, Houses and more. There are a variety of Nanite packs as well containing incredibly high detail objects.
All of the assets in this bundle are redeemed directly on the Unreal Engine marketplace using the Epic Game Launcher.
These assets can also be used fairly easily in other game engines or tools like Blender. A guide to exporting from Unreal Engine to Unity, Godot and Blender is available here:
https://gamefromscratch.com/exporting-from-unreal-engine-to-godot-unity-or-blender/
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https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unreal-engine-mega-pack-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engine-mega-pack-humble-bundle/
Exporting from Unreal to Godot, Unity or Blender:
https://gamefromscratch.com/exporting-from-unreal-engine-to-godot-unity-or-blender/
The above links contains a code that enables you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!)
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A-Frame ( https://aframe.io ) is an open source VR framework sponsored by Mozilla. It runs over top of three.js and provides a very easy but powerful way to create browser ready VR content. Compatible with Rift, Vive, Daydream and GearVR.
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Odyssey is a brand new 2D animation tool by Praxinos that is build on top of Unreal Engine. That's not to say it's built USING Unreal Engine, but it is actually a special fork of Unreal Engine that adds 2D animation support. This enables you to use most of the functionality of Unreal Engine as well as the 2D drawing (vector and bitmap/raster) and animation.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/odyssey-unreal-engine-powered-2d-animation-software/
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The Graphics Designer Toolbox bundle is a collection of ebooks from Packt (you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have... Packt!) on a variety of graphics packages, including many you don't normally see books about, such as Inkscape, Krita, Procreate, Clip Studio Paint and Affinity Designer, as well as a suite of Adobe products, Substance and a few more.
Links
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/graphic-design-toolbox-with-adobe-and-more-books?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/graphic-design-toolbox-humble-bundle/
The above links contain a code that enables you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0gVD0uaHI
Yeah, that's quite a title, and I stand by it. Peek is a game changer for Unity developers IMHO, making the Unity workflow soooooooo much nicer. Plus its also super cheap in the current Humble Bundle so there is that too! If you use Unity, I think installing Peek is an absolute no-brainer!
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/unity-games-and-game-dev-assets-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/hands-on-with-peek-for-unity/
https://gamefromscratch.com/clayxels-bringing-clay-modelling-and-claymation-to-unity/
https://gamefromscratch.com/umodeler-hands-on/
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Unity are the first out of the gate with Black Friday sales and from now until Dec 4th 2021 you can get 500+ items on the asset store for 50% off. More interestingly, every few hours they release a "Lightning Sale" that starts at 90% off and goes down as more people buy it.
Links
https://assetstore.unity.com/?aid=1011l4rAy
Lightning Sales:
https://assetstore.unity.com/?lightningDeal=true&orderBy=1&aid=1011l4rAy
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-asset-store-black-friday-sale-on-now/
The above link contains an affiliate code that pays GFS a small commission if used (and thanks so much if you do!)
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This is a new tutorial series here on GameFromScratch aimed at teaching someone with ZERO prior programming experience how to develop games. We will be using the Lua programming language and Love2D game engine, but don't worry on the specifics of either, they really dont matter.
What matters is what you will learn. The basics of programming, the structure of a game, the tools you need, how the pieces fit together and perhaps most importantly, where to go from there.
In addition to this video tutorial series, there will also be a text based version. It will contain the same material and include all the source code demos used in the video.
I am also creating it as an e-book, which will be made available to Patreon supports (thanks by the way!!! ), available at: https://www.patreon.com/gamefromscratch?ty=h Don't worry, it's the same material made as the blog and videos, just compiled together into ebook form for convienece.
As always, your feedback is important, so if you have questions or something you want covered, please let me know in the comments below!
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