I recently created a Unity tool to help automate some admin in my game (namely generating easy-to-read solutions to my puzzles), and as part of this I needed to get screenshots. This post details a quick and easy way to get a screenshot of your game and save it as an image file in your … Read moreEasy Screenshot in Unity
In this article I will detail several concepts and techniques for creating great puzzles. These concepts can be used to improve your existing puzzles or to help complete or refine your puzzle designs. Sequence Puzzles Most puzzles require the player to do actions in a certain sequence to solve them. The simplest form of this … Read morePuzzle Design Concepts Part 1
Complexity and Difficulty Puzzle difficulty is important to manage. If your game is too easy it will be boring for players; if your game is too difficult it will be more frustrating than fun. You need to find the right balance of difficulty, both in individual puzzles and in the game as a whole. You … Read moreManaging Difficulty in Puzzle Games
The Practical Side of Puzzle Design Before you can learn how to come up with great puzzle ideas, you’ll need a technique for recording your ideas. in a tangible form. This will vary according to your personal preferences and strengths. You could build puzzles directly in your game engine (or a level designer built into … Read moreHow to Design Puzzles: Puzzle Ideas
Once you have your puzzle mechanics chosen, it’s time to start designing puzzles using those mechanics. But before you can start creating puzzles you need to understand puzzles, how they work, and what makes them fun and challenging for players. Puzzle Theory A puzzle is a challenge that needs to be overcome. Get to the … Read morePuzzle Design Theory 101
Whether you have a ground-breaking unique puzzle mechanic nobody has ever seen before or are reinventing some tried-and-true classics like a block-pushing game, how you choose and use your puzzle mechanics is what will make your game shine. Mechanics A game’s mechanics are the ways the player and game interact. The Witness’s main mechanic is mazes; Hue’s … Read morePuzzle Game Mechanics
This simple 2D water shader will give a result like this: Create a new shader in Unity and paste the code below over the default code, then create a material using the shader. I put the material on a simple SpriteRenderer with just a plain white square image. You will need a ripple texture to … Read moreSimple 2D Water Shader
In this final part, we will improve our project by adding areas to the Nav Mesh with some different rules, and also use the CalculatePath() method to make the enemy check their path before deciding to follow it or not. Area Types We will now create a new terrain so that we can treat areas … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 5: Areas and Paths
And as with the rest of this series, you can grab a download of the full code as it should be at the end of this part of the tutorial at the bottom of this tutorial, so you can compare your own project. Now that we’ve covered the basics of using the Nav Mesh, Nav … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 4: Patrolling and Chasing
In Part 1 we created a simple Nav Mesh, and made an agent walk on it, and in Part 2, we added some obstacles to introduce some actual need for navigation. In this part, we will link multiple meshes together and use off-mesh links to join them. This will vastly increase the capabilities of our … Read moreNavigation with the Nav Mesh Part 3: Going Off Mesh