Making a RTS game #22: Producing some resources with our buildings (Unity/C#)

On with our RTS game: today, we’ll make our buildings produce some resources!

⬅️ Tutorial #21: Adding players and unit ownership| TOC | Tutorial #23: Implementing behaviour trees for our units 1/3 ➡️

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In the last tutorial, we’ve worked on our units and we’ve implemented a system of ownership. In this article, we’ll start from there and focus more on our buildings: we are going to see how to have them produce some resources based on their position in the world.

Here, what I call “resources” are the three in-game resources we talked about a long time ago, at the very beginning of this series: gold, wood and stone.

For this project, I wanted my resource production system to have three characteristics:

• the type of resources a building can produce depend on its type
• the amount of resources a building produces depends on where it’s placed in the world: the surroundings impact the “production efficiency” of the building
• resources are infinite: instead of having units…