When learning game development, especially the gameplay coding side, there’s a bit of a trap. When learning you often end up keeping everything in code, especially documentation, as it’s just faster to get through the learning. …

Loading in a sprite (2d image) and actually animating it in-engine is actually pretty straightforward but the first time can be a hassle to learn as it’s many tiny steps. The steps we’re going to take are: Load in a Sprite Sheet Splice the Sprite Sheet into individual parts Create…

Prototype boxes and capsules can get us pretty far but eventually, we need some real art assets, animations, and effects. Now while it’s nice to have custom art assets made for the project, if you’re still in the early stages of prototyping sometimes you need to use a model kit…

Game Assets even simple low-poly assets, take hours to produce. So the last thing you want is to create a bunch of assets, only to never use them in the final build. This can happen easier than you think considering the complexity of the game design. Finding the “fun” takes…

As discussed before timers are everywhere in games. BUT in past articles, I’ve only written about simple timers using delta time in the default Update Loop. If we look at Unity’s Order of Execution we can see there is something that happens immediately after the update loop called Coroutines. …

Most people learn quickly how to set an empty Parent object to stash things like Managers and level props. But when spawning objects in Unity such as bullets, and enemies by default it will just spew into your hierarchy making debugging a nightmare. How to Organize Spawned Objects The simplest way is to set up an empty object as you would with level props or managers, then add a serialized field for a GameObject. Drag and drop to hook up the folder object to the player variable. Then when we Instantiate the new object we assign the folder GameObject to the object’s parent.

Games have so many moving parts from 3d, animation events, and physics. Not to mention all the code we need to communicate between the different parts and objects. At this level of complexity, we require ways to handle Dynamic Events between two objects; events such as a sword swing connecting…

True xD Just really starting to document it more publicly.

Unity3d has a few tutorials out there but one of my favorites is this official 2013 tutorial which is where the above gif is from. While the exact steps are a little different than what I’ve written below the base is still the same. …