There is a community-supported calendar that contains a huge number of current and upcoming game jams I will show you, but first let’s go over when the biggest game jams, like Ludum Dare and the Global Game Jam, take place. Biggest Game Jams Dates LudumDare started as four times in a year jam (with other smaller events …

Story Theme and Setting Generator allows you to get a random writing prompt to spark new ideas or just get a challenge for either short or long story. If you just need a theme or only a setting, ignore the other one, it will still be useful. Writing prompts are an amazing way to brainstorm and practice writing every …

Game jam games have really interesting gameplay and visuals that can sometimes never be seen in the full releases, plus, they often get to the good stuff right from the start and you can get through a bunch of different experiences in a short amount of time. I’ll list some examples below, but there are a lot of new …

Unity is an excellent development platform for anyone new to building games. You can use it to create and run both 2D and 3D games on multiple platforms. This provides a lot of freedom to explore the creative process. It is the direct competitor of the Unreal Engine and has a lot of respectable features that set it …

Assembly Definitions are a new way Unity allows us to organize the code by creating separate assemblies and specifying dependencies between them. It first appeared as preview in Unity 2017.3 and became more functional in later releases. Assembly Definitions can also be called asmdefs for short. In this tutorial let’s …

In the previous article, I’ve briefly mentioned my Unity Editor UI Library and wanted to go more in-depth on how I started structuring custom Editor code and why not go the default way. Unity Editor UI (IMGUI) In its current form Unity Editor UI (IMGUI) leads to really messy and unreusable code, and while making a …

Game Genre Generator allows to generate thousands of random video game genre mashups that can be used to spark new game ideas or pick something to play. Click “Generate” to get a random combination of genres. You can select and copy the generated results as usual, as it is no longer uses Unity WebGL. Examples …

Participating in game jams, we sometimes did a bit of practice, coming up with random ideas before the actual game jam, before the theme was revealed. We just took themes from previous jams, from one place or another, and did brainstorming sessions. And so I thought about making a tool that would generate random themes …

Game Privacy Policy Generator allows you to generate free Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions for your mobile Android, iOS games. Privacy policy is required by both Google Play and AppStore. Here is the snippet from the iOS AppStore Review Guidelines: Depending on permissions and data collection you will also …

Game Studio Name Generator has over a million different random combinations and was created to help generate ideas to name any gaming company (real or fictional). Your company name is important and even if you don’t need it right away when just staring to develop the game, you can start thinking about it, to find what …