Objective: Limit the lasers fired by the player to only 15 shots. When the player is out of ammo, provide feedback through on-screen elements or sound effects. (ie: beep or ammo count displayed on screen) Approach & Implementation: Well this is a pretty easy one to crank out. Let’s make quick work of this. …

Objective: In today’s article we’ll build upon the existing player shields by adding a health system to them and providing visual feedback to indicate damage taken. Approach & Implementation: Health System: The player’s lives are managed through the _playerLives variable, which is initialized to 3. The Damage() method is responsible for handling shield hits…

Objective: The primary objective is to create an engaging and responsive player thruster system that allows for speed boosts and resource management. This system should provide visual feedback and maintain an immersive gameplay experience. Approach & Implementation: To implement the player thruster system, we’ll utilize the existing PlayerMovement() method, which is responsible for handling…

Objective: Allow the player to quit when hitting the ‘esc’ key. This is a pretty simple one :D Implementation: The Unity documentation made this a breeze. Within our GameManager script in the Update Method we add the following:

Objective: You’ve successfully built your WebGL Unity game and you want to share it with Friends and Family. You have so many options. You could upload it to itch.io which is a great option and service. Or if you have access to a website/server as I do you can host it…

Of the many benefits and features that Unity offers, chief among them in my opinion is the ability to code once and build and deploy to a myriad of target platforms. PC, Mac, Linux, check. WebGL? Yup. Consoles such as Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch Checkeroo! Objective Build and deploy a WebGL…

Sound Plan We have several places where we want to play sounds. Let’s see what sound clips we have first. Laser Sounds Explosion Sounds PowerUp Pickup Sounds For the purpose of today’s article I’ll focus on the laser shot. Assuming that you have your desired sound FX file chosen and imported into…

Today I took a bit of a different tact. For this project I’m using generic assets provided by GameDevHQ and they are lovely but my inner Art director needed to stretch his legs. In addition to doing some work on my post processing volume. …

What exactly is post processing? Some like to compare it to the tools you would find in PhotoShop or other photo/video editing tools. Adding image effects and filters as well as color correction into your game to name a few. These are very powerful tools and in the right hands…