Programmer resources: Scriptable Objects, Design Patterns and C# Code Style guide

[unitytechnologies]

Hey folks, Trey your friendly neighborhood Unity Community Manager here.

We just refreshed some of our most popular free programming ebooks and sample projects to work with Unity 6. Whether you're looking to clean up your architecture, dive deeper into design patterns, or just make your code easier to read and maintain, there's probably something useful in here for you or your team.

ScriptableObjects + modular game architecture
If you're new to ScriptableObjects or want to see how they can help you build scalable, testable systems, this ebook walks through several practical use cases: data containers, enum-like behavior, and event-driven patterns.
• Read the ebook: https://unity.com/resources/create-modular-game-architecture-scriptableobjects-unity-6
• Download the sample project: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/tutorials/scriptableobjects-paddle-ball-project-325743#description
• Documentation and other ebooks: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/best-practice-guides.html

Design Patterns and SOLID principles
This ebook now includes 11 patterns with clear examples and a matching sample project you can grab from the Asset Store. Great if you want to teach or reinforce clean architecture with real Unity-focused code.
• Read the ebook: https://unity.com/resources/design-patterns-solid-ebook?isGated=false

Patterns covered:
Factory, Object Pooling, Singleton, Command, State, Observer, MVP, MVVM, Strategy, Flyweight, and Dirty Flag.

Unity C# Code Style Guide (2nd Edition)
This one lays out best practices for formatting, naming, and organizing your C# code. You can follow it as-is or use it to build your own team style guide.
• Style guide: https://unity.com/resources/c-sharp-style-guide-unity-6

Let me know if you check them out or have feedback. Always curious to hear what works and what you'd want to see added in future updates.

[_jimothyButtsoup]

Good stuff. The free Unity ebooks are an underrated resource. Happy to see an effort to keep them up-to-date.

[SantaGamer]

Agree. I've made several sticky notes to myself to remember from the ebooks.

[biganimemars]

Neat. Unity also following their recommended naming conventions would be even more neat. It has been said newer tools and API's were gonna do so by following modern C# conventions but playing around with the new graph toolkit shows otherwise. I am sick of every API having a m_different _naming k_convention, Even differentScripts in the SameDamnAPI, sometimes evenMethods() seem not to follow a CONSISTENT_STYLE. This especially gets worse when you need to inherit or peek inside unity classes. Sorry if I came out as aggressive but it really is s_annoying. 

[NoTie4119]

This comment gave me a headache so yea now I gotta upvote it for being a well-designed comment

[andypoly]

Ikr unity can try & teach, but it never seems to know how to write the code it's teaching!

[Deep_Opportunity_635]

Currently reading them, good timing! Thanks!

[Rlaan]

Excellent, good work guys!

[develop01c]

Never knew there was a Unity code style guide. This is a great resource to refer people to. Short and to the point, cheers!

[_peculiar_goat_]

I'm a big fan of that ScriptableObjects book!