I've been working on an immersive virtual garden designed for artists to practice figure drawing. There's finally a playable demo and I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions!

Steam Page (Demo):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2594620/

Bonjour,
J’aimerais créer un fan game 3D 100 % gratuit sur Unity. Je ne sais pas encore sur quelle licence, TLOU ou Zelda ( s’il vous plaît Nintendo ne m’attaquez pas en justice 😭😂) je pense mais peu importe. Je n’ai jamais touché une ligne de code de ma vie, j’ai juste créé un site avec Lovable et je rectifiais les erreurs quand il y en avait (j’essayais de comprendre).
Hier, j’ai installé Unity dans le but d’aboutir à mon projet, mais d’abord il faut le commencer, et je n’ai aucune expérience. J’ai juste d’autres potes codeurs, mais eux ne codent pas de jeux vidéo, donc… Je ne sais ni coder en Python, ni en C#, ni en C++, ni en Java… Je n’ai même pas fait spécialité NSI au lycée.
La question est : est-ce que c’est possible ? Par où avez-vous commencé ? Par où dois-je commencer : déjà faire du Python ou de la 2D ? Quels tutos je dois regarder… tout en sachant que je ne veux pas utiliser l’IA, je veux juste coder moi-même.( j’ai oublié de le dire mais je n’ai aucune compétence graphique)
Merci, passez une bonne journée !

Hey guys, these are the VFX for my game. It's the first version, and I'd like to know what you like and don't like. What would you improve?

Feel free to comment and share your opinion :D

One power in our Unity game makes the cat eight times his size, and right now every step is the same camera shake on a fixed 0.45 s timer, so a player said it ticks like a metronome.

Would you fire it from animation events on the actual foot contacts, add Perlin noise to the strength, or do something else entirely?

I've been working on a custom rendering engine for a while now, and eventually got bored of testing and tweaking it in static environments (mainly the 23 billion triangle statue scene and Sponza), so I decided to plug it into one of my older projects that's entirely procedurally generated.

Took a while to get everything hooked up, but the results are looking pretty promising so far, especially the voxel-based GI.

The procedurally generated houses don't really have enough triangles to justify running the virtual geometry system just yet, although I do have it running in some of the other levels. It's pretty much the only reason those scenes can run without my GPU ejecting itself with a lawn chair error and crashing Unity.

P.S. I'm aware a lot of the objects inside the houses are pretty low poly. I haven't got around to modelling high-poly replacements for the procedural generator yet, but that's where I'll be putting the virtual geometry system to work next.

INKURSION is a narrative platformer in Unity 6 HDRP where you play a newly sentient octopus escaping a simulated universe. HDRP isn't exactly known for running on handhelds, so making it portable and Deck-friendly while keeping the look was one of our biggest challenges. Here's what actually moved the needle:
The octopus itself
Eight fully physics-driven legs is a lot of rigidbodies and joints aswell as procedural walking scripts for step reach. We tuned joint counts per tentacle, simplified collider shapes, adjusted solver iterations, and made sure segments sleep when they're not doing anything. The goal was keeping the floppy, reactive feel without the physics step eating the frame.
Mirrors
We use HDRP planar reflection probes for mirrors so the player can look at their octopus character, and rendering them every frame was brutal. Now each mirror only renders in realtime when it's actually on screen and the player is within a set radius. Even then, it doesn't capture every frame: it takes a snapshot at an interval, which is still smooth enough that your eye doesn't notice. This was one of our single biggest FPS wins.
Meshes and shaders
We cleaned up and LOD'd environment meshes, cut down shader variants, and simplified our heaviest shaders so the lighting still reads the same but costs far less on weaker GPUs.
Batching
Lots of foliage and repeated props, so batching was huge. Cutting draw calls freed up more CPU headroom than almost anything else.
Upscaling
On NVIDIA hardware we use DLSS, which lets low-end RTX cards render at a lower internal resolution and still look sharp. [On Deck we use FSR, since DLSS is NVIDIA-only.]
The result is a stable 60fps on low-end hardware with the bioluminescent look you see in the clip intact.
Happy to go into detail on any of it, especially the ragdoll and mirror setup. What's been your biggest win optimising HDRP?

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4767470/INKURSION/

Thank you to the 2,000+ friends who downloaded and played the game. During this trial play session, we collected a large number of opinions and suggestions.

For example, regarding the position of the shipping box, some friends suggested it could be moved; some said the floor height could be increased to build a loft; there were also suggestions for modifying the operation keys to accommodate different operating habits, and for adjusting resource consumption, etc.

What moved us even more was that we saw some friends playing the game for over 200 minutes. This gave us great encouragement. Once again, we would like to thank all of you for your support of "Shelter Prepare".

Next, we will sort out and improve the problems and suggestions we have discovered, and prepare our official demo.

Also, the alignment adsorption was not obvious before. This time, we have further enhanced the alignment adsorption ability, and the cans and beverages are now easier to stack!

I've been working at this on-and-off for a while. A Vine system that can accomplish real-world vines, different growth patterns, annual patterns, annual re-growth and expansion, etc.

The system is not intended to have a full year go by in 30 seconds like here (this is sped up 5x), but it can, as long as there aren't too many at once.

The system is intended to be for games that either want static vines, i.e. just bake it and use it, or vines that are realistic per the time of year, but change very slowly. So when the leaves fall off, they don't do it all at once but over a few weeks perhaps, dependent only on how many real world seconds "weeks" takes.

Vines are set up via a "Recipe" (Scriptable Object) system, which determines how they grow. A lot of GPU for the leaves and what not.

Vines can be trimmed at runtime, fruit can be picked (are game objects, separate prefabs, so you can code them as you'd like), etc.

Hello Everyone,

I have decided to try to move my game over to Unity from Unreal. Basically starting from scratch. I am wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of finding some quality basic character designs and animations without breaking the bank. I'm doing this so I don't have to redo a bunch of subpar animation and modeling. The game has an art style similar to Schedule 1 (Partly why I'm moving to Unity because I couldn't get the look right in UE). I just need basic animations and some fun cartoony character models. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

The gameplay of my upcoming video game "Darkness" is out NOW !

I've been working on this game for over 5 months, as a solo indie GameDev

(Worked in the Industry, as both Senior 3D Environment Artist and Level Designer also an Architect)

"Darkness" is a top-down medieval dark fantasy game, which includes partly dialogues, trade system, inventory, slash, puzzle and semi-stealth mechanics. Developed with Unity 6 URP. I tried my best on optimization part.

In "Darkness" you play as "Kün" , our brave and bold Hero, who tries to save his Queen and the Kingdom from the Darkness and its' servants...

Demo soon will be out (Approx. in November 2026, and planning to release in Q1 2027)

Hope you'll like it ! I'm open to any constructive feedbacks.

Game is still in WIP.

You can support me by Wishlisting the game on Steam :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5147490/Darkness/?beta=0

Cheers and have a great weekend all !

I dont understand what is my car bumping into? As you can see box colliders looks fine so where is the problem?

Been experimenting with paper plane flight mechanics in Unity!

I’ve also been working on an in-editor paper plane creator tool, allowing you to customize and build different paper plane designs directly inside Unity.
The controller includes gliding, diving, climbing, rolls, and arcade-style maneuvers, with a classroom obstacle course to test everything.

The challenge is making the plane feel lightweight and floaty while keeping the controls responsive and fun, while still giving creators an easy way to design and tweak their own planes.

Curious what other Unity devs think

Solo project, still early. The game opens inside a hell that machines built in the prisoners' minds, and this level is set around Zaqqum, the tree of hell. You only have a bone club there. The second half of the clip is my grey test map, where I also try the gore with guns.

I think The Hive trailer just went viral on Youtube, so I'll share it here also.

We recently released a major update, upgrading the game to Unity 6.6 with improved visuals, lighting, animations, and effects. So kind of like a "remaster" at this point.

We also have two new expansions in development. The Hive has always been my passion project, and seeing renewed interest in the game motivated me to start working on it again. We also translated it recently to +12 languages.

For those unfamiliar with The Hive, it's a story-driven real-time strategy game with RPG elements, somewhat similar to Homeworld or Dawn of War.

You command an insectoid hive, harvest DNA from defeated enemies, and use it to evolve new creatures. You can choose which creatures to unlock and in what order. Your units carry over between missions, level up, grow in size, improve their stats, and can equip them with items dropped by enemies.

There is also pure gameplay video on our channel if you want to see that.

We have a free demo on Steam if you want to check it out

Any feedback helps, good or bad. We just want your honest opinion!

If you have a unit that come into range of an enemy but then that unit is disabled ( SetActive(false) ) because it's gone inside of a structure (or vehicle) how do you manage the colliders? It will no longer trigger the OnExit function when disabled, so if the enemy unit walks away, the first unit will always remain in range. Anyone ever dealt with a similar problem?
I was looking into simply turning off the mesh renderer but then that creates a whole ton of other issues.
Is there no way to trigger the collider while disabled?

Puck'n Hell has been on the platforms with only its singleplayer arcade mode, I've updated character visuals at first and now the public/private lobbies are enabled after some development done with PurrNet-PurrDiction implementations. The view that sees the bar area is the host and the other is the client side, we play through VPN and all to test how accurate it became. I'm happy with the results and plan to do some extra work for the updates from PurrNet that has some related fixes as I assume.. Also r/SensePilot and their headtracking is integrated and works with multiplayer together with singleplayer gameplay for those who'd experience the game through head movements and join the competitive gameplay with everyone together.

Enemies are super simple right now - just testing some early behaviours out. I also added a slip/dodge mechanic where the player can slip out of the way of attacks. That move was inspired by the dodge in the last of us part 2, (which I love), I wanted it to feel like your slipping just past the blade instead of a big roll.

Its all still procedural with no animation clips... What enemy behaviours would you expect for combat scenarios like this?

We're making an incremental game which uses a top-down isometric camera (Feed the Forest). In our game you dash around as a snail and place plants in a desert. Plants have to emit ambient sounds so its easier to recognize different tiers (color coded in the video, goes from T2 -> T5) and also we want give some mood.

Each plant tier as the game progresses becomes more "evil" and eerie. Tho, T2 (purple) and T3 (green) progression is a bit iffy as it seems that it becomes less evil but it's a bit late to change the order as we're releasing soon. I omitted T1 from the video as we think the sounds there already work.

I'll lower the volume in-game of each sound to 0.1 and modulate the pitch on each instance a bit. We wont spawn an ambient effect on each instance tho, there's a 2-5% chance per each plant a sound effect will spawn so it doesn't become mush. We're also using built-in Unity audio so I can't add too many fancy in-game effects.

I'm looking for feedback on these ambient sounds for each of these plants. Which ones are way off and should be changed or adjusted in your opinion?

Small character update from my alchemy game.

I recorded a short clip showing two things I’ve been working on lately.

First a simple NPC going through different randomized looks, hairstyles, outfit parts, accessories and skin colors. The idea is to get a decent amount of town variation without needing every NPC to be built completely by hand.

Then I test the first recreational potion on him.

He drinks it, gets a little groggy, his head grows, his skin turns green for a bit, and his eyes go red.

It’s still a very early version, but I like finally getting to the point where potions visibly affect characters instead of only being production items.

Still lots to add, but it feels like a fun first step toward making the town feel more alive and making the alchemy feel a bit more tangible.

The objective of the project was to demonstrate how creating and simulating a digital twin can help validate store layouts and product placement locations.

This process utilized realistic shopper personas generated through Generative AI.

For more information, read the full article here: Retail Store Layout Simulation

You can access the GitHub repository here: StoreSimulator

Additionally, try the playable demo here: Store Simulator Unity Playable Demo