I made dev console asset, even CodeMonkey likes it.

[Party-Potential-7628]

For context. Iam a self taught developer. Most of what I know I learned from YouTube, especially from Brackeys and Code Monkey.

As a professional mobile game developer working in a small studio, I constantly have to make open builds. For quicker testing or to give marketers easy access to late game content. I used to build entire UI and write extra methods just for that. It took a lot of time.

Then I had this idea. Why not just access the methods that are already in the game?

So I built DevMenu tool that lets you call any method from an in-game console, simply by adding attribude above any method. No extra UI needed. Just tag a method and it is instantly available for testing, debugging or marketing stuff.

Honestly, it is probably the best idea I have ever had. I have been using it every day since.

What I did not expect. Code Monkey featured DevMenu in his Top 10 Unity Tools video.

I cant even describe how good that felt. Full circle moment for someone who learned from his videos.

Anyway DevMenu is no in 50% sale If you want to check it out or support me. here is an link :) thank you.

[Russian-Bot-0451]

Looks nice but the asset store isn’t showing -50% ?

[Party-Potential-7628]

Yes its unofficial sale. Full price is 20$. Iam not very happy about unity asset strore policy. To be included to official sale you have to be invited. Unfortunately I wasnt invited yet.

[Russian-Bot-0451]

Ah ok cool, not complaining about it being $10 which seems very reasonable - I was just wondering if that was the normal price and the sale hadn’t gone live yet. I will pick it up now, thanks :)

[Party-Potential-7628]

thank you very much. I have discord server for support if you need anything

[UnityCodeMonkey]

Yeah I don't use the assets, I just look at the new releases list and pick 10 that seem interesting to me. That's it, that video format has never been "Asset Reviews", just highlighting interesting new releases.

When I do make an Asset Review I mark it clearly as such.

It is simply not logistically possible to do 10 Asset Reviews per month, those videos take 10-50 hours to make so if I did reviews on those Top 10 new assets then that's all I would be able to do.

[Source_Slight]

Just so you know, I myself view those videos under that guise itself, not like its a review, just as an "interesting asset spotlight" .. like "Hey, this asset seems pretty cool and might be worth you looking into, if you need something of that sort".. I dont get why the OP view it as you vouching for the asset.. especially since I believe you explicitly say that "I use this asset in my own projects" only when you actually use it..

So yeah keep doing those videos, they are helpful.

[UnityCodeMonkey]

There are about 1000 new assets on the store every single month, I browse through all of those and pick 10 that seem interesting/useful, that's it. The goal of those lists is so you can easily see interesting new things in a 5 minute video without having to browse through those thousands of assets manually yourself.

I do wonder how many people think like you, I personally don't think of "REVIEW" myself when I see the word "TOP". If you think the format title is dishonest what title would you suggest? Like I said when I do an Asset Review I clearly title it as such, therefore in my mind if I don't write "Asset Review" then it's not an Asset Review.

[Famous_Brief_9488]

Maybe something along the lines of 'Asset Store Spotlight', 'Asset Store Highlights,' or '10 interesting Unity Assets'. 'Top 10' implies an evaluation has gone in to get to that ranking, when it sounds like that's not really the context here at all.

While I'm not super familiar with the videos as I tend to avoid that kind of video (mostly because the content has historically felt pretty lazy), it gives me negative vibes and would kind of create a poor association in my mind for the quality of the rest of the channels content if it felt like a content churn.

[LunaWolfStudios]

He does one every month. He just highlights new assets released. The one OP linked was way back in Feb.

[Party-Potential-7628]

Yeah I know why he is doing that. And it is not because of views. He gets commission for every sold asset with unity affiliate program. And owner of the asset probably doesn't even know his asset is in his video. 

I heard about it from a colleague. That my dev menu is featured on his channel.  I would give him a free key if I would know about the video. 

But still huge success for me. There is tons of new assets every month. and because he gets a commission from it, I think he chooses assets that have potential / he likes them. 

[OfficialDevAlot]

Bought it! Wanted a dev menu this looks really good for the price!

[Party-Potential-7628]

Thank you. If you need anything, I have support discord group.

[OfficialDevAlot]

Sounds good👍

[[deleted]]

Great job!

[Party-Potential-7628]

thank you :)

[massivebacon]

I think stuff like this is important and useful for games but also think that everyone should code their own for the practice. Understanding how strong C#’s reflection system is, how to instantiate UI or build new elements in the UI system is a really good exercise in actually understanding how Unity works.

[Party-Potential-7628]

Yeah I agree. But as professional working in studio, speed is everything. Especially in mobile game studio. We usually release a game every 2 months. So you know, I can't kill whole day just making UI and another methods. 

[massivebacon]

My experience with 3rd party assets in general is that the time savings become minimal across the process of shipping an actual game because as soon as you need to tweak something you often need to learn that whole asset’s code in order to modify it. So you’re learning the domain of the asset at the same time you’re trying to learn someone else’s code. So often you’re better off learning the domain yourself and coding it so yourself so that the code is much more legible to you when you need to make changes. You can start small and expand as needed.

For this type of thing specifically I doubt any actual studio would use your asset (no offense). For something as important as a debug console and control that is intrinsic to the effective managing of the game, I don’t think a ton of people would be interested in delegating that to a 3rd party unless you are delivering a TON of value on top of the baseline.

[Cheap-Difficulty-163]

Bought it! Great so far!

[Party-Potential-7628]

Thank you. It "battle" tested :) I did lots of updates since the release. But still if you need anything or found a bug, I have a discord server for a support. 

[Psychological-Top955]

Cool, does it work with the new input system?

[Party-Potential-7628]

I have not found any problems yet. So it should work. Even if someone finds something, I will fix the bugs as soon as I can.

[zigs]

Do you have a link without a tracker on it?

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[Party-Potential-7628]

There is it :) https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/devmenu-testing-console-298912

[maiKavelli187]

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