PlayMaker - Visual Scripting for Unity
Unity Asset Store Best
Seller!
"Redefines Unity" - "Astounding" - "Absolutely the best Plugin ever for Unity so far!" - "Extremely easy to use." - "Amazing" - "Stellar productdocumentationsupportand community." - "Very cool" - "Great product for programmers and designers alike!" - "It enables fast prototyping and it's fun to use." - "GET IT" - "I have easily tripled my productivity with PlayMaker." - "This product is simply amazing. You literally can create fully functioning programs with noor very littlecoding." - "Fantastic" - "You will probably never make a project without it again."
Visual Scripting for Unity
Realize your creative vision without knowing how to program!
- Visual state machines are intuitive and powerful for beginners and pros!
- Programmers love visual state machines too.
- Works with all versions and licenses of Unity.
- Works on all Unity platforms (25+) across mobile
desktopconsoleTVVRAR and the Web.
Intuitive Visual Editor
- Quickly add States and Actions.
- Connect States with Transitions.
- Manage Events and Variables.
- Save time with Templates and Copy/Paste.
- Integrated Help.
Powerful Debugging
- Realtime Error Checker finds errors before you hit play!
- Runtime Debugging lets you watch state machine behavior.
- Set Breakpoints and Step through state changes.
- Watch Variables as the game plays.
- Send Events and Set Variables at any time.
- Use the Log Window to watch transition events.
Highly Extendible
- Write Custom Actions and they appear in the editor.
- Custom Actions available for many popular addons:
- Photon2D ToolkitiTweenNGUISmooth Moves...
- User Community shares actions on the Forums and Wiki.
- Use the Ecosystem Browser to find custom actionssamplestemplates etc.
The PlayMaker Edge
Easy To Understand
Other visual scripting tools simply expose the Unity API (written for programmers) and C# language (programming) as thousands of nodes. If you already know how to code you can probably build what you need but it's a huge learning curve for non-programmers!
PlayMaker takes a higher level approachoffering an intuitive structure with StatesActions and Events to quickly build behaviors. This actually empowers non-programmers to create without having to become programmers themselves.
Production Ready
PlayMaker has been used in dozens of shipped products including HearthstoneINSIDE Hollow KnightThe First TreeDreamfall ChaptersFirewatch and more. We've worked with AAA studios to solo indie developers to make sure PlayMaker meets their needs on every platform.
For exampleINSIDE plays as a continuous experience with no loading screensso new content has to load and run seamlessly. We worked with Playdead to ensure that PlayMaker met their performance requirements and then passed those improvements on to every PlayMaker user.
Performance
Other visual scripting solutions use delegates or reflection calls for every single node in the graph. Even simple behaviors need many nodes. This quickly adds up to a heavy hit on performance!
PlayMaker actions are C# scripts like any other script in your project. Calling them is quick and efficient. You also need fewer actions to do the same work as dozens of nodes in other visual scripting tools.
Ecosystem
PlayMaker has an active user community with admins and power users online to answer your questions. The Ecosystem Browser provides easy access to a constantly growing collection of custom actionstutorialssamplestemplates etc.
Many third party assets have PlayMaker supportwith easy to use Actions so you don't have to figure out APIs written for programmers.