May 5th, 2018

Finite Element Analysis in Games – Deformable Objects

Unity Tools

DefKit – Deformable Bodies Toolkit for Unity [v0.2] – FEM and SBD

Plugin for Unity that uses FEM to deform solid bodies.


Fractuccino – Real time fracturing for Unity

Tool that attempts to allow for real time fracturing of solid objects in Unity. This tool is based on methods that were researched by Matthias Muller, Nuttapong Chentanez, and Tae-Yong Kim in the PhysX team.

Paper Fractuccino is Based on can be found here.

May 3rd, 2018

Unity – ProGrids

Brackeys Tutorial on ProGrids – Youtube

Progrids is a tool that can be obtained for free on the Unity asset store. It allows you to have a grid-system in Unity for constructing your scenes. This can be useful for basic level design and simply keeping items in line with each other.
This can be extremely helpful for prototyping and grayboxing level designs, or even full game creation, especially in a 2D sprite/tile setting.

May 2nd, 2018

Game Jams in Ludem Dare

Ludem Dare Site

“Ludum Dare is one of the world’s largest and longest running Game Jam events. Every 4 months, we challenge creators to make a game from scratch in a weekend.”

This site lets users participate in a game jam every 4 months where they create a game based on a theme over one weekend. The users can see others submissions, and it is a competition where submissions are based on multiple categories.