The digest of news from the world of development on Unity

Summer is a time of great accomplishments. Spend a good holiday time: read our new digest and create awesome games on Unity.




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Unity 5.1 release : increased support for various kinds of VR devices, improved cloud services and Unity Multiplayer functionality for developing network games.
About updates in Unity 5.1 for Oculus Rift .
Development under the glasses-headphones Hololens from Microsoft.
The first billing plugin from Xsolla appeared in the Unity Asset Store.
Unity attracted as a consultant Mike Kapps - the founder of Epic Games.
John Richitello at the GamesBeat Summit 2015 discussed with colleagues the issues of financial profit in the gaming industry .

Developments

Announcement of Unite 2015 - the conference of developers and users of Unity, which will be held September 21-23 in Boston (USA).

Unity Games

The Gallery: Six Elements, Vox Machinae and Job Simulator are three amazing projects based on Unity and VR.
How to develop a multiplayer 3D game without artists, designers and modellers in six months?
Project Crowfall from ArtCraft on a modified Unity .

Training

Free video course "Game Development at Unity" : a total of 55 lectures in 10 chapters.
Introduction to programming on Unity is a basic course, the purpose of which is to give a step-by-step guide on how to create a 2D game.
"Getting started with Unity for Windows . " Having completed this course, you can learn how to develop 2D and 3D games for Windows in C # and Unity, as well as understand how to publish games in the Windows Store and make money on your game projects.
How to create outlines of objects and optimize the visual style of the game for mobile platforms.
The portal noobtuts.com published a number of tutorials on the development of 2D-games on Unity.
Instructions for creating a demo landscape in Unity for 24 hours.
Image blending modes in Unity : implementation, pros and cons.
Work with texture compression in Unity 3D + NGUI.
A few lessons on Unity 5.1 .
Video shader writing tutorial .
A developer from gamedev.net portal told how to add realism to animated characters in the game .

It is interesting

Reports from the second meeting of the Unity User Group in Russia .
Why are game developers teaming up around the Unity platform .
Create an app for Gear VR using Unity 3D.
How I left the university to develop my own game. Part 1 .
Peter Angstadt told why he does not advise anyone to create their own engine and how good it is to work with Unity.
An article appeared on gamedev.net portal, which describes the advantages and disadvantages of a randomized and manual approach to level design .
The process of creating games for mobile devices using Unity 3D and Visual Studio.