Best of Unity — June 2025

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   Code Monkey·51w

   Dev followed my FREE course, then made $150,000!

   A game development instructor shares success stories of students who learned from his free Unity courses and went on to create profitable games. The main example is Urban Jungle, a cozy home decoration game that generated approximately $150,000 in revenue after the developer started as a complete beginner and followed a 10-hour Unity tutorial. The post highlights multiple success stories and promotes various free programming courses, emphasizing how beginners can learn game development through structured tutorials and reverse engineering existing code.

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   Code Monkey·48w

   What do the BEST Programmers do differently?

   Skilled programmers share 15 key attributes that set them apart from beginners. The most important traits include mastering tools deeply rather than jumping between them, breaking complex problems into manageable pieces, never stopping learning, taking responsibility for code issues instead of blaming the computer, and understanding that there are no shortcuts to gaining experience. Success comes from consistent practice, writing millions of lines of code over time, and helping others along the way. The deterministic nature of programming means the same code always produces the same results, so debugging requires careful analysis rather than frustration.

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   80 LEVEL·47w

   Sakura Rabbit's Cool Real-Time Clothes Wrinkle Effect on Mobile

   3D artist Sakura Rabbit demonstrates a real-time cloth wrinkle effect running on mobile devices using Unity. The showcase features fabric simulation with stockings that performs well on smartphones, proving that complex real-time rendering effects can be optimized for mobile platforms. The project is available through the artist's Fanbox page.

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   80 LEVEL·48w

   Custom Unity Renderer Transforming 3D Scenes into Pixel Art

   Red Giraffe created a custom Unity render pipeline that transforms 3D scenes into pixel art using downsampling and quantization techniques. The system works by downsampling internal textures into low-resolution buffers, quantizing them, then upsampling back to source resolution. The colorful shadows are achieved through a custom render pass that quantizes the image and matches shadow values to appropriate available colors.

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