11 hours agoSpace Shooter Ammo CountObjective: 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. …Unity Game Development2 min readUnity Game Development2 min read
1 day agoShields Up+GRADE!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…Unity Game Development2 min readUnity Game Development2 min read
2 days agoGalaxy Shooter — Player ThrustersObjective: 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…Unity Game Development3 min readUnity Game Development3 min read
Oct 5, 2022How to quit your game using the Escape KeyObjective: 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:Unity1 min readUnity1 min read
Oct 4, 2022How you can Host and Share your Unity Games on the WebObjective: 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…Game Development2 min readGame Development2 min read
Oct 3, 2022Can We Build it? Yes we Can! — How to Build and Test your Unity GameOf 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…Unity Game Development3 min readUnity Game Development3 min read
Jul 20, 2021Getting Immersive with Sound FXSound 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…2 min read2 min read
Jun 3, 2021Spit and Polish — Retro Game Post Processing Quick WinsToday 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. …Unity4 min readUnity4 min read
May 31, 2021Getting Started with Post Processing in UnityWhat 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…Unity3d3 min readUnity3d3 min read
May 30, 2021We’ve been Hit! How to Visualize Player Damage in UnityIn the past day I’ve added a rotating Asteroid that when hit will start the enemy spawn routine. I’ve also added a thruster animation to the Player ship. It looks really cool. Nothing too new in doing so. Just a lot of the same animation patterns we’ve used previously. In…Unity3d2 min readUnity3d2 min read
