Last November we announced our new era in character creation and introduced our Sidekick Character Creator – the ultimate character creation companion for developers using Unity.
For the past eight months the Sidekick Character Creator has been available exclusively as part of our All Access Pass and Sidekick Pass subscription plans. We're grateful and excited to see so many developers picking up the tool and working with it in their projects! But we have also remained aware of your feedback that for some projects and circumstances, a subscription model isn't the preferred option.
That's why today we're thrilled to be launching: Sidekick Character Packs!
Over the past few months we've been hard at work on a solution to give you the same functionality as the Sidekicks tooling in our All Access Pass, but broken out into themed packs available under our one-time purchase licence. Today we're launching four packs – Viking Warriors, Sci-Fi Civilians, Fantasy Knights, and Samurai Warriors, and we'll be releasing all our currently available Sidekick drops as packs over the next few weeks. You can expect us to be releasing new Sidekick Character Packs for both one-time purchase and All Access Pass customers at the same time, by around September.
Each pack will ship with themed modular character parts, the Sidekick Character Creator tool, and the modular base species parts required for the theme. The individual packs are able to be purchased and combined to deliver the full Sidekick system available under our All Access Pass, allowing you to mix and match themes to suit your unique project needs.
Since launch, the Sidekick themes and genres available have more than doubled, with even more in the works! You can create pirates, elves, apocalyptic outlaws, sci-fi soldiers, vikings, samurai, knights, skeletons and more. Sidekick offers powerful tooling that allows you to create endless custom characters with a high level of creative control, or use our expert presets to make generating characters a breeze. We can't wait to see what you make!
If you've just discovered Sidekicks, or want to find out more about exactly how it all works in Unity, we've put together a short video guide to getting started.
While the Synty team has a bunch of ideas for exciting new features and content to make Sidekicks the ultimate character solution for game developers, we would really love for you to join our Community Discord to share your feedback, and what you're most excited to see added to Sidekicks in future!
