Here are four underused but powerful attributes that you can use to streamline your Unity inspector. I learned about the enum one pretty recently and it's now my favorite. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Here are my most used attributes that help keep my inspector clean and organized. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips

Have you ever needed to validate Inspector values using dynamic data? OnValidate runs every time you edit a field in the Inspector, so you can catch a bad value and fix it before it causes a problem later. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #untytips

Here's another fun tip: You can use Vector3.Dot() to easily check whether two game objects are facing the same direction. #gamedev #unity3d #unitytips #indiedev #madewithunity

Your object doesn't just rotate from one point. You can move the pivot and completely change how something spins, orbits, or animates. Small trick, but it opens up a lot once you know it's there. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

Have you ever renamed a field in Unity and watched your Inspector values disappear? Yeah, me too. Here's how you can avoid that from happening again. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #csharp

Kids crack me up. I just had this conversation with my six year old: Son: "Mom, what does ordinary mean?" Me: "Nothing special" Son: "I just want to know..."

I had a couple modular pieces flickering when the camera moved. This is because the modular assets didn't quite line up so the render was having issues. Here's how you can easily fix that without redoing the models. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign

Join Tom TODAY for Our weekly CodeTime! as he works on the DX12 backend! When: FRIDAY @ 15:00 EDT, 20:00 UTC+1/BST, 21:00 CEST Watch him on: FB: www.facebook.com/monogamecomm... TW: www.twitch.tv/monogame YT: www.youtube.com/@MonoGame/st... #gamedev #indie #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment

Here's another fun fact! You can use shift + ctrl in Unity to toggle surface snapping. Grab the center box & drag it to another mesh. As long as the receiver has a collider it'll snap. Happy level designing! #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign

New episode of #QuestToCompile is out! We're getting into version control for game dev, why binary assets make it harder, and how you can set up Git to handle it. #unity3d #godot #monogame #gamedev #versioncontrol #github #indiedev youtu.be/MB5U9Rh4pJo

My 6 yo requested new assets to spruce up the treasure chest in my tutorial. I made a necklace from his sketch, added gems, and made a coin insert. Got 2 more items left. His smile when he saw his concept drawing come to life in the game was amazing. #gamedev #indiedev #blender3d #unity3d

Fun fact! You can use Shift+v in Unity to toggle vertex snapping. Grab a vertex and drag it to another mesh. You can do crazy fast modular level design with this. I know, because my son is now having me over-design the scene for my upcoming tutorial. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

This week on #QuestToCompile we’re digging into version control for game dev, why binary assets make it more complex, and some of the ways teams have historically tried to work with it. Episode is out Thursday. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #godot #monogame #github #versioncontrol

I'm working on the next tutorial, which will walk through how to set up an event bus to connect your game systems... and I've gotten completely carried away with the level design. It's 100% irrelevant to the tutorial. :D @kaylousberg.bsky.social makes such cute assets! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

Git worktrees let you keep more than one branch checked out at once, each in its own folder, so you stop stashing to switch. New video covers the fundamentals, creating and managing them, and gamedev gotchas. youtu.be/7PQrAKqB45s #gamedev #indiedev #git #vscode #github #unity3d #godot

The final part of the Unity UI Toolkit & Equipment series is out! I show how [UxmlElement] and [UxmlAttribute] put your element and its properties in UI Builder. Plus a simple way to wire the window to the player to toggle gear. https://youtu.be/ZANzFBXeBSg #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #uitoolkit

New Quest to Compile episode is out! Vic from @flatredball.bsky.social walks us through GUM, an engine agnostic UI layout tool that works with MonoGame, raylib, Skia, and really anything .NET. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeFY... #QuestToCompile #indiedev #gumui #monogame #gamedev #OpenSource #dotnet

Our first ever guest on Quest to Compile! Join us Thursday where Vic from @flatredball.bsky.social walks through GUM, his engine agnostic UI layout tool. aka.ms/quest-to-compile #QuestToCompile #gamedev #indiedev #monogame #godot #dotnet

Revisiting art theory while teaching my six year old color & light sent us down a fun rabbit hole of understanding visual perception. Quick test: which orange circle looks bigger? Check out image 2 for the answer and then read 👇 #art #design #gamedev #blender3d #digitalart

Quick blender tip: If you realize your proportions are off while sculpting you can mask everything but the part you want to reshape, then use the Move tool to fix it. #blender #b3d #gamedev #indiedev #unity #godot #monogame

Lasso Trim in Sculpt Mode is the fastest way to cut fused geometry between fingers after a remesh. If they keep fusing, pull them apart with the Grab brush before remeshing. Follow for game dev tutorials and tips. #blender #b3d #gamedev #indiedev #unity #godot #monogame

Breakpoints? Over it 😅 Dear ImGui lets you debug your .NET game live — tweak values, build custom panels, and watch changes instantly. MonoGame + ImGui = chef’s kiss 🎛✨ Watch the episode → buff.ly/XWrJwR9

VS Code Agents have three approval modes and picking the wrong one for the task will either slow you down or let the agent run too loose. Here's what each one does. #vscode #githubcopilot #claude #aiagents #gamedev #ai

VS Code has an Agents Window that lets you manage multiple AI sessions across projects in one place. I've been using it to work on my website and my role playing game at the same time. Here's a quick primer. youtu.be/OigIl7aLUrQ #vscode #githubcopilot #claude #aiagents #gamedev

Every few months I test the latest AI 3D tools to understand the real impact to game dev. This round I tried TRELLIS, Tripo 3D, Meshy 6, and Rodin 2.5. I went deepest with Meshy 6. Here's what my workflow looked like. 🧵👇 #gamedev #indiedev #3dart #blender #ai3d #unity3d #godot

I've been using VS Code's new agent window to work on my game and website and I just realized it has a built in browser! You can click any element on the page and it drops the div + a screenshot into the chat. #claude #githubcopilot #devtools #webdev #vscode youtube.com/shorts/14r4Q...

I was explaining the importance of having an emergency fund / savings to my 6 year old. At the end he says to me, "Okay. My emergency is I need more Legos." .... that checks out.

Part 5 of the UI Toolkit Inventory & Equipment series is out! This one covers rendering a game object on a visual element using a RenderTexture. Plus a right-click-drag manipulator to spin the preview. youtu.be/iKZRYDTTF-A #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #uitoolkit

New episode of #QuestToCompile is out! Andy and I cover Dear ImGui and how to use it to build debug tooling that runs inside your game. No more stopping just to check a variable. aka.ms/quest-to-compile #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #godot #monogame #csharp #dotnet #programming #imgui

MonoGame University w/Simon Jackson is on TODAY. He's talking about the upcoming 3D Platformer! When: Thursdays @ 10:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC+1/BST, 16:00 CEST Watch him on: FB: www.facebook.com/monogamecomm... Tw: www.twitch.tv/monogame YT: www.youtube.com/@MonoGame/st... #indiegamedev #gamedev

Had some fun playing around with drag and drop in IMGUI.... Join us Thursday where we'll walk through the basics of using IMGUI for debugging on the next episode of Quest to Compile. aka.ms/quest-to-compile #QuestToCompile #gamedev #indiedev #monogame #godot #unity #IMGUI

Been working on the next tutorial covering how to render a 3D model inside a UI Toolkit panel. Most of it is done but I'm still ironing out a few things... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqVGt5PilZo #gametutorial #unitytutorial #unity3d #unitytips #gamedevcommunity #gamedev #indiedev

GitHub Copilot CLI is even more powerful when you know the right commands. Save this cheat sheet to speed up your workflows from the terminal.

🪄 Your agent experience, refined. The latest VS Code release brings better BYOK visibility and control, integrated browser improvements, and more. It also introduces the new Agents window (preview), making it easier to explore, iterate on, and review tasks across multiple projects.

Now that you know UI Toolkit's Binding modes, here's how you can control the their update timing. For more, check out my "Build an Inventory & Equipment System with UI Toolkit" series at www.youtube.com/@staceyhaffner #Unity #UIToolkit #GameDevelopment #unitytips #IndieDev #gamedev

Indie devs - if you have 40 min, this is worth watching The @dot.net team walks through setup, best practices, and a hands-on demo, building a playable Unity prototype from prompts using Unity, .NET, and GitHub Copilot.

UI Toolkit has 4 binding modes. Here's what each one does and when to use them. For more, check out my "Build an Inventory & Equipment System with UI Toolkit" series at https://www.youtube.com/@staceyhaffner/ #Unity #UIToolkit #GameDevelopment #UnityTips #IndieDev #gamedev

Part 4 of the Unity UI Toolkit Inventory series is live! Time to bring the UI to life with interactions. Learn how runtime data binding powers dynamic tooltips, plus add drag-and-drop so players can organize their inventory. youtu.be/6JvgG_ezhaM #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #uitoolkit

I'm planning out some future episodes for my YouTube and the Quest to Compile podcast. What gamedev content do you want more of? #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #monogame #godot

Episode 1 of Quest to Compile is out! We set up @unity.com's MCP with GitHub Copilot, share some best practices, and build a small prototype with it. Great for speeding up the busywork so you can focus on the parts you enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwLI... #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

My brother and I have a new podcast: Quest to Compile. It's about how games get built today in the .NET ecosystem. First episode goes live Thursday! Follow the playlist: aka.ms/Quest-to-Com... Subscribe to my channel: www.youtube.com/@staceyhaffner #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #godot #monogame

Tomorrow and Friday, Xbox Game Camp, Microsoft Make Code, and Minecraft Education are teaming up to give 4th–8th grade students hands-on time making games at University of Washington's Engineering Discovery Days 💫🎮 If you're in the area, it's a great way for kids to explore STEM (and it's free!)

New tutorial is up! This one walks through building two custom tools for Unity's official MCP from scratch, including a SceneNote tool that drops floating text into your scene. youtu.be/f4xIUiy0D9s #indiedev #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #githubcopilot

I got carried away during editing today and created a pop up for when there's a new quiz question. Keep an eye out for these in the next video! It's all about building custom tools on top of Unity's official MCP. www.youtube.com/@staceyhaffner #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #githubcopilot

Been experimenting with AI-driven testing in my Unity game. Built a tool in the Unity MCP that injects keyboard/mouse input and told it to find a workbench and open the crafting UI. It learned the controls, navigated there, and pressed E. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #githubcopilot #ai

I've added quiz questions to the Code an Inventory Window with UI Toolkit video. Go into the description of the video to pull the panel up. Let me know if you like them! If there's enough interest I'll add on-screen prompts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzG... #gamedev #indiedev #unity #unity3d

I'm considering adding quizzes to my gamedev YouTube videos so you can test your knowledge as you watch. Is this something you'd be interested in? #gamedev #indiedev #unity #godot #monogame

I dusted off my gamedev-resources org and moved all my YouTube tutorial projects into their own repos. No more cloning everything just to get one project! github.com/gamedev-resources #gamedev #github #unity #godot #indiedev #monogame #github

Part 3 of the Unity UI Toolkit Inventory series is up! This one wires ScriptableObject item data into a custom control that instantiates the Part 2 UXML template at runtime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzG... #gamedev #unity #uitoolkit #unity3d #indiedev