Get Started Your First Mobile Top Down Shooting Game Development With Unity Visual Scripting Part 1

App Arcanum
3 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Create a Unity account and Install Unity.

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  1. Create a Unity account, Download and Install Unity Hub: https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download

2. Install Unity 2021.3.1 or above. Make sure you installed Android Build Support or/and iOS Build Support.

3. Click “New Project”.

4. Make Sure “Editor Version: 2021.x.x” and “3D Mobile” core Template is selected, enter a Project name “Galaga 3d” and then Click “Create Project”(Note:Visual Scripting only available on Unity 2021 and above).

5. Adjust Unity Editor Windows and change the Resolution to “9:16 Aspect” for landscape mode Android screen.

6. Back to Browser Open the Unity Asset Store Link https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/top-down-controller-3d-visual-scripting-213214

Sign in with your Unity Account and Click “Add to My Assets” by adding “Top Down Controller — 3D — Visual Scripting”.

7. Back to Unity Editor, Select “Windows”; “Package Manager”; Select “My Assets” .

8. On “Package Manager”, Search for “Top Down Shooter — 3D — Visual Scripting”.

9. Click “Import”; On “Import Unity Package Window”, Click “Import” again.

9.1 Download and Import the “Cartoon Fx Free”

10. On “Project” window; “AppArcanum”; “TopDownShooter”; Double Click “GalagaScene”

11. It may got some warmings on “Console” Window when you first time importing Visual Scripting Package. Go to “Unity”; “Edit”; “Project Setting”, Select “Visual Scripting”; Click “Regenerate Nodes”.

In Hierarchy Select “GameManager”; Double Click “GameManagerGraph”

On Script Graph; Make sure Application Variables are vail.

12. Form GalagaScene; Click “Start” to run the game.

13. Also this game can run on your mobile by Go to Unity ; “File”; “Build Setting…”

On “Platform”; Select “Android”; Click “Switch Platform”.(Make sure you installed the Android SDK and NDK Tools also OpenJDK from Step 2.)

15. Connect your phone(Android Device) to your computer. Turn on “Developer Debug Mode” on the Device https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/dev-options

Select the Device; Click “Build and Run”.

Congratulations !!! You are step into Mobile Game Development now.

Next: Get Started Your First Mobile Top Down Shooting Game Development With Unity Visual Scripting Part 2

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