Here’s a quick guide to setting up a UI feedback element to report collectibles acquisition in your game. Step 1: Tag your player as “Player” and your collectible as “Collectible”. Step 2: In your player script create an int variable to track your collectibles as they are picked up: Step…

In this guide I will cover some of the processes required to collect user data within an enterprise app as well as output relevant information based on the user inputs. To create a framework for processing data on each of our UI panels, we can create an Interface (IPanel) which…

In this guide I’ll walk through a tutorial of creating an enterprise style app for mobile within the Unity platform. I have a project template already set up with the assets required for our app, so I’ll cover mainly the scripting required as in most cases the art assets for…

If you’ve ever played a major 3D game title it is almost certain that you have encountered some sort of loading screen either between the menu and the game first loading or even between scenes or zones of the game itself. These screens are a useful tool to inform the…

Our gameplay is just about wrapped up and we’re ready to implement our main menu. In this guide I’ll cover a couple cool features to add style to your menus. Creating the Main Menu Step 1 is to create a new scene for our main menu where we will add…

Manager classes such as a GameManager, AudioManager, or UIManager allow you to centralize the logic for game elements across your game. For example, any time you want a triggered audio clip to play you could have code to enable the audio spread out in 15 different places across your scripts…

A Singleton is a programming pattern that allows you to access a class script without using a GetComponent reference. It is an excellent tool to use for creating Manager Classes because it makes the code contained within them easy to reference and access from anywhere. …

I previously covered setting up an artificial “eyes” behavior for pathing AI characters, but we can also create this behavior for stationary objects that only have their vision moving along a track — say, a security camera for example. In this guide I’ll cover setting up that behavior. Our stealth…

There are a number of reasons why you might want to your AI characters to have an eyesight behavior. A common use case for this would be anytime you want the enemies in your game to be able to detect the player as it crosses in front of them. …