This may come as a shock to some of you, but most weapons in shooter games don’t actually shoot any bullets (gasp). It’s all behind the scenes magic. A sound effect plays, there are some particle flashes in front of the barrel, and animation of the player and weapon moving…

We have looked at many ways to move our characters in 2D, 3D, and even 2.5D. In a 3D world, however, we have not yet allowed the player to look around on their own. How about we add that control right now? To start out with, we should have a…

When dealing with triggers and collisions, we used the technique of checking tags before performing the required task. This works especially well when there is only one thing that you want to have a trigger for, but there is another method when accounting for multiple objects. …

If you are at all into fighting games, I am sure you have heard people talking about hitboxes before. Maybe even a little too much. Now you are finally going to understand everything they are talking about. Well… maybe not everything. Say we have a Player object and they have…

In the Unity Developer Journey, you have already seen the use of the Prefab. A way to make a specific object only once and then be able to Instantiate that same object whenever and wherever you want. …

Here’s a tip for Unity that is going to be quick and easy, but one of the most useful things you’ll see for all your future projects. We’re going to follow our player with a virtual camera. To get access to virtual cameras, we’re going to need to download Cinemachine…

If you have been playing with Unity’s Tilemap since it was first introduced to you, bravo. I hope you are enjoying it and have found some new and excellent ways to build your levels. There are two things I would like to add to the basics now. Creating a level…

When making 2D games and piecing your levels together, it can sometimes be difficult to work with what you have. Making sure all of your prefabs can come together to make something cohesive and proper designed for the player. …

As you most likely have discovered by now, everything that seems very simple in real life becomes a more complicated issue when going to program it into your game. There is even a joke among game programmers on the internet about doors being very difficult to bring to life in…