So let’s say our Player was unfortunate and just got a Game Over screen. What next? Our game doesn’t know what to do but I’m sure it’s a possibility that the Player may want another go at it. To create the ability to restart the game if we get a…

One of the main challenges with the any game is to progress as far as possible — what makes this a challenge? The chance to not progress further of course… Introducing a gaming staple — the Game Over screen! Following on from my last article on UI building, we need…

With Unity, it is easy to create great looking UI for displaying useful information to the Player. However, computers are kinda dumb and they don’t know about any of the elements of a game that many would take for granted. We need to tell our game what it means to…

When trying to trigger certain code based on the contents of a certain variable in C#, an If/Else If statement is a quick and easy way to achieve this — as demonstrated in my last article However, as the potential options increase, the code can quickly become difficult and confusing…

In a previous article, I went through the steps involved in creating a powerup for our Player’s weapon systems. It was, however, a very inefficient method due to it not being very flexible or adaptable. By this, I mean that we would need to create a new script for each…

To avoid having our in game sprites looking boring and static, Unity allows us to easily animate them. We can do this through the Animation window — With the GameObject we want to animate selected, we can create a new animation from the animation window. …

With our game out of the prototype phase, it’s time to look into giving the Player something to help them out — enter the Powerup! Let’s start with a temporary improvement to the Player’s weapons —using the sprites in the 2D Space Shooter assets from Filebase, we have the sprites…

Once we have the basic concepts of our game in place and functioning, we can look at moving away from the Unity primitives and getting some assets into our game. I’ll be using assets from the awesome Filebase that you can find here. Firstly, with the project I’ve been building…

Following on from my last article on creating a Spawn Manager. You will notice that if you leave the game running for a while without killing any of the spawned enemies the hierarchy will soon fill up.