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. …

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…

Adding impact and intensity to damage reactions! — Camera Shake has been constantly used in videogames to add feel to games, intensifying certain actions and increasing immersion. It’s a chaotic detail, but a subtle one that improves the player’s experience (when it is not overused or mishandled). I have used Camera Shake when the player gets hit, along…

The enemies won’t even know what hit them! — My ship weapon arsenal has been getting a little stale, with just two weapons (if you include the default one). I’ve decided to add Heat Seeking Lasers, only looking for ship targets (the asteroids are ignored, but that doesn’t mean that they can get in the way). It’s a basic…