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• Supercharge your Unity Microgame with these top assets 2021-04-26
  Check out some of the Asset Store’s most popular items to power your Microgame projects to the finish line this spring.
  Asset Store Team
• Tales from the optimization trenches: Saving memory with Addressables 2021-03-31
  Efficient streaming of assets in and out of memory is a key element of any quality game. As a consultant on our Professional Services team, I’ve been striving to improve the performance of many customer projects. That’s why I’d like to share some tips on how to leverage the Unity Addressable Asset System to enhance […]
  Patrick DeVarney
• Learn the Input System with updated tutorials and our sample project, Warriors 2020-11-26
  With the Input System, you can quickly set up controls for multiple platforms, from mobile to VR. Get started with our example projects and new video tutorials for beginners and intermediate users. Input is at the heart of what makes your real-time projects interactive. Unity’s system for input standardizes the way you implement controls and […]
  Kristyna Hougaard,Andy Touch
• New career pathways help you break into the gaming and tech industries 2020-11-17
  Our new guided learning experiences help you create a portfolio, get Unity Certified, and prepare for a new job.
  Estefany Delgado
• How Metric Validation can help you finetune your game 2020-11-13
  Today we are excited to share the next step in automating aspects of the balancing workflow by releasing Metric Validation, a precursor to our upcoming Optimization feature.
  Willis Kennedy
• The road to 2021: The Performance Optimization team 2020-11-09
  We recently shared our roadmap plans for 2021. Now we invite you inside Unity to meet some of the teams working towards these goals. In this second post of our new series, we meet the Performance Optimization team. Our Unity 2021 roadmap explains our priorities for next year. We’re committed to updating production-ready features and […]
  Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen
• How the Query system in Unity Mars does procedural layout 2020-10-14
  The Query system in Unity Mars simplifies the creation of augmented reality (AR) experiences that adapt to the real world around them. Based on constraints that you specify, it finds a way to lay out the scene in a given environment. Read on to learn more about how it works. We designed Unity Mars to help […]
  Stella Cannefax
• New Unity Educators Live sessions announced: How emerging tech is transforming learning 2020-10-12
  Unity educators can find actionable insights and inspiration to arm their students with the skills to lead the real-time 3D revolution. Register for Unity Educators Live and read on for all the details!
  Nichole Wong,Alex Grady
• Unity Safe Mode available in 2020.2 beta 2020-10-09
  Unity Safe Mode is available in Unity 2020.2 beta. This improves how Unity behaves when opening a project that has script compilation errors. If there are compilation errors at Editor startup, you will be prompted to enter Safe Mode. This mode is designed to provide the best environment for resolving compilation errors, so that you […]
  René Dalby Carlsen,Maria Angelova
• Validate your skills with a Unity Certification 2020-10-08
  As the world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content, Unity and those with Unity skills play an integral role in bringing these experiences to life. With surging demand in these industries, people with Unity skills are more coveted than ever, making this an opportune time to build and advance your Unity […]
  Estefany Delgado
• The road to 2021: Team “Quality of Life” 2020-10-07
  We recently shared our roadmap for 2021. Now we invite you inside Unity to meet some of the teams working towards these goals. In this first post of a new series, we are zooming in on a team that operates under the codename “Quality of Life.” Our Unity 2021 roadmap explains our priorities for next […]
  Thomas Krogh-Jacobsen
• Dead Pixels casts real-time into prime time TV 2020-10-06
  A clever mix of live-action and made-with-Unity animation, the TV series Dead Pixels originally aired on Channel 4’s E4 in the UK. This summer, it landed a weekly slot on U.S. network The CW. Now, London animation studio Keyframe Studios finds itself delivering season two sequences in a speedrun. If you’re a gamer, and especially […]
  Ellen Grogan
• Tips for working more effectively with the Asset Database 2020-10-06
  The Asset Import Pipeline v2 is the new default asset pipeline in Unity, replacing the Asset Import Pipeline v1 with a rewritten asset database to enable fast platform switching. It lays the foundations for scalable asset imports with robust dependency tracking. Read on to explore how the Asset Database works and discover some time-saving tips. […]
  Javier Abud
• Create jaw-dropping graphics with these High Definition Render Pipeline resources 2020-09-25
  We’ve gathered the latest tutorial content to enhance your game in the High Definition Render Pipeline – plus sample projects that are available for download.
  Mike Lee
• New performance improvements in Unity 2020.2 2020-09-21
  The Unity 2020.2 release features several optimizations that are now available for testing in beta. Read on to see where you can expect to see major speed-ups and get behind-the-scenes insights into what we’ve done to make these improvements. Writing high-performance code is an integral part of efficient software development and has always been part […]
  Lyndon Homewood