Day 37 Now that the game is playable let’s update the game so that the Enemies can fire lasers. This was a bit tricky to accomplish, and here's why. Trial And Error For the first attempt at adding Enemy Laser fire, I added the Laser prefab to the Enemy Script and created a coroutine to…

Day 36 Right now, the game looks excellent, and the game sounds great! Now it’s time to build the game as an application to test it out. One of the great benefits of using Unity is that it can build its game for any platform, such as Android, PC, Mac, and even…

Day 35 The last sound effect added to the game is a powerup sound effect. There are many ways to go about this. For example, you can add the Powerup Audio Clip directly to the Powerup Script and use a method called PlayClipAtPoint() to play an audio clip at a specific position…

Day 34 The next sound effect that will be added is an Explosion Sound Effect to the Asteroid and Enemies. This is accomplished by adding an Audio Source to the Explosion Prefab and Enemy Prefab and then adding the Explosion Audio Clip to the Audio Source. …

Day 33 The past few articles were about enhancing the game with visual effects and animations but now it's time to enhance the game with audio. The soundtrack can make or break a game and a really good soundtrack can make the game experience memorable and 10 times better! Background Music Before adding audio…

Day 32 Let’s turn the game from a product that appears to be in development to a game ready for production. This is accomplished by adding a few Post-Processing Effects to make the game look much better. There are a lot of articles about post-processing itself, so this article will just be…

Day 31 Time to add some visual enhancements to the Player! The two animations added to the Player will be a Thruster and signs of Engine Failure. So first, let’s add the Thruster. Player Thruster To add a Thruster Animation to the Player, the Thruster Sprite is added as a child to the Player.

Day 30 The last article mentioned that the Asteroid would be responsible for starting the game. So, let’s implement that logic! This is accomplished by adding script communication between the Asteroid and the Spawn Manager to allow the Asteroid to start the game upon being destroyed. Implementing the Logic Before adding script communication, the first…

Day 29 To make the game better and more enjoyable, let’s add an Asteroid that the player can fire at to start the game. Before, the game would automatically start every time the “Play” button was pressed in the Unity Editor. Now the user can start the game on their own by…