Today, I will show you how to set up Player’s lives UI. We will have a total of 3 lives when we are starting the game, then lose one at a time when the player collides with an enemy. Steps — Player’s Lives 1. Prepare sprite images So, first, we need to prepare 4 sprite images that represent…

Today, let’s talk about the basics of UI system in Unity. UI is very intuitive and easy to use in Unity once you understand the basics of how it works. It is also extremely important to have the UI set up correctly in any application as we, developers, often deploy…

Today, I want to go over two topics: Converting if statement into switch statement for optimization Spawn 3 PowerUps randomly one at a time by using Array []. Let’s get started! If → Switch Statement First, let’s take a look at this If statement in PowerUp Script. It’s was great that we could assign…

We now have PowerUp for Triple Laer Shot. That’s great, but what if we want to add more diverse types of PowerUps such as increasing Speed or providing Shield? Do we need to create a new C# script every single time we create a new type? No, that would not…

Ok! This time, let’s go over how we can spawn TripleShotPowerUp similar to how the enemies are being spawned + I will show you a simple animation that will add quality to the game! Spawning TripleShotPowerUp To spawn TripleShotPowerUp, let’s first open up SpawnManager script. It’s going to be really really similar…

The game is looking amazing so far. It’s time to create some cool features — ‘Power Up system’ is one of the most important core features that will make the game more exciting and interesting. In this article, I would like to introduce Triple Shot Power Up. The player would…

In previous articles, we basically covered most of the core mechanics of StarShooter 2D Game. But, we really have cubes and capsules, don’t we? It’s time to upgrade our game objects and background into those high-quality amazing looking assets! 3D to 2D So far, I have been using 3d objects (cubes and capsules)…

In the previous article, we went over how to respawn an enemy when arrives at the bottom of the screen. But, what happens if this enemy was destroyed by the laser or the player? It will not respawn. In this article, I will explain how to continuously spawn enemies every…

In my previous article, we went over OnTriggerEnter() that will destroy the player and enemy when collided. …