Time to analyze the guard’s patrol pattern! — It’s pretty common for videogame enemies to have a patrol pattern, moving from point to point, looking out to get the player. And obviously, a stealth game will always have pesky enemies patrolling around. So, I’ve implemented modular patrol waypoints that will allow me to easily create new patrol paths…

Learn how to control your animations in Unity — The Animator is Unity’s main visual tool to handle multiple animations in a GameObject based on a State Machine approach (only one state can be active per layer, states can transition between them if certain conditions are met). In this article, I will only focus on the basic usage of…

Giving marble the polish it needs in Unity! — The last step to improve the look of my game is to give this luxurious room some reflections. Unity provides two great tools to get amazing reflection results: Reflection Probe, and Screen Space Reflections in the Post Processing package. …

Baking illumination for better performance and quality! — Real-time lighting can be an expensive feature to add to a medium / big project, and the quality will be somewhat poor due to how fast the rendering needs to be to keep up with the game’s performance. …

Balancing the Powerup spawns by adding rarity! — Do you wonder how RPGs, Looter Shooters, or lootboxes handle which weapon or reward you’ll get after killing an enemy or opening a box? Then, lucky for you, I recently implemented Loot Tables in my game, which is precisely what these games / boxes use, and that’s today’s topic! What is a Loot Table A…

More enemies join the fight! Good luck, player! — The game has now a real sense of challenge with the Bomber and Toxic enemies added in, but what if I add even more? It’s time to complete the enemy rooster with these three new enemies: Avoider, Reckless, and Watcher! Avoider

Don’t worry Rookie! Help is on its way! — The game is feeling more complete now with all the features I’ve been adding to it. The one thing it’s lacking right now is more enemies. Today, two new enemies join the fight: Bomber and Toxic! Bomber

Recycling GameObjects can greatly improve performance! — Object Pooling is a common technique used in the videogame industry to increase performance by reusing the same instances of an entity and storing them when they are no longer being used. In my game, there are infinite waves of enemies, and tons of lasers to be instantiated by the…

I’m a’ firin’ mah lazer!! — It’s time to bring in the big guns! Today, I want to showcase the newest addition in my game: Laser Beam! A mighty weapon of mass destruction that will quickly wipe any entity in its way (including lasers), and so optimized the game won’t even drop a frame! There’s a…