May 26, 2021It’s done! My space shooter has been released! Come check it out.Ok, first off it’s been a week since I posted. Honestly, I didn’t have anything to post. I was busy crushing bugs in my space shooter. …Unity 3 D Game Development2 min read
May 19, 2021Sometimes, coding just kicks you right in the …6 days. It’s been 6, long, days since I posted my last article. Why? Because I sunk my teeth into the boss wave in my 2D Space Shooter. Wow, this was a lot of work. The thing is, as I made the boss wave for some reason it started to…Unity 2 D2 min read
May 13, 2021Magnets and Unity — how to make an object come to you!Ok I’m coming clean right from the start. This challenge really threw me for a loop. I’m not sure if it has to do with the pages of code I already have in this game or if it’s time for me to move on to another game. But man, this…Unity 2 D3 min read
May 12, 2021Taking Player Powerups away! More enemy AI advancement.We’ve given 6 powerups to the player to help him combat enemy AI. So what happens if we take it away? What happens if the enemy, who I might add is growing smarter every article I write, decides that it can “see” the powerups? …Unity 2 D3 min read
May 11, 2021Creating a new enemy — the backfire! Sneaking up on your player…Ok first you may notice a bit of a change to the opening. I’ve added a giant enemy at the top of the screen. I wanted to have something that would kick off the fight. So I thought why not have an out of control enemy get destroyed and then…Unity 2 D4 min read
May 10, 2021Let’s give the enemy a brain.Ok, so we have our enemy AI moving in random directions and shields to help protect them. Now it’s time to give them a brain. Let’s make it so a random enemy will have the will to kamikaze the player. To do this I need to change the enemy movement…Unity 2 D3 min read
May 8, 2021Shields up! Giving your AI random shields.So today I’m going to be giving our enemy AI some shields. I’ve chosen to just give it randomly — 25% chance that when instantiated the enemy will come with a shield. …Unity 2 D4 min read
May 7, 2021Creating a balanced Spawn Manager in Unity.So I’ve added a lot of things to this Space Shooter including 6 powerups and 1 powerdown. Now it’s time to get some balance. At the moment I have 2 of the items using their own script to give some weighted balance. The missiles and the powerdown, so I won’t…Unity 2 D4 min read
May 7, 2021Bombs away! Adding another enemy to the game.So last time we made the player have to think a little by adding a PowerDown that causes his movement to slow down by half. This time, we are going to add an extra enemy — a bomber. I found a cool bomber looking spaceship and a bomb online and…Unity 2 D4 min read
May 5, 2021Throwing your player a nasty surprise! Reverse Powerups!This was a fun challenge. Giving the player a reverse powerup that would inhibit his ability to kill my precious AI enemies! I thought long and hard about this one… I was going to create a powerup that looked like a normal powerup and if they ran into that thinking…Unity 2 D4 min read
