Get your game working, then pretty it up. There are a few key reasons why it is best to wait before adding assets to a game: Game Structure Debugging and Testing Time for Artists Game Structure: Game assets are what makes a game beautiful, but they mean nothing if a…

How to clean up the clutter in the hierarchy.

….It is like a function, but you run it on the side. Specific to Unity3D, coroutines are like functions that run in intervals. Given conditions, it will run and pause within a designated time span as opposed to running in its entirety within a frame. If something changes over time…

This tutorial covers how to reference methods from script components of other game objects. Within a Unity project, there are several game objects that interact with one another. Their behavior can be programmed through a combination of enabling triggers and writing scripts that execute upon those triggers. In the previous…

This article covers the two types of colliders that can be scripted within game objects. In the previous article, colliders and rigidbodies were discussed. With the trigger enabled within the collider, different actions and behaviors can be applied to game objects when collisions occur. OnCollisionEnter involves the behavior of a…

This article covers how Unity applies physics to game objects. When developing a game, it is key to know how game objects interact with each other and how to program specific actions when those interactions take place. …

…How to cooldown the rate of fire for a 2D Space Shooter Game. Objective: The lasers in a space shooter need to have a fire rate so the player has a cooldown. In order to create the cooldown, we need to write logic that will add a delay whenever the…

How to instantiate and destroy lasers within a 2D Space Shooter game within Unity. Objective: Our 2D Space Shooter should spawn lasers from the player and destroy the lasers when they leave the screen. Note: If you want to see the previous 2D Space Shooter article, please click here. The…

…Why programmers should write psuedo code within their real code. Pseudo code is another term for making comments within one’s code in order to help explain what is going on within a program. This can be for the benefit of the sole programmer or for the benefit of others who…