Paddling Towards a Complete Game Now that we have a skeleton of a game it’s time to fill in the feature gaps. In Part 6 we’ll work on the player paddles. We will: Adjust the ball angle according to the direction of the player’s paddle when the ball hits – giving the player a bit … Read moreBeginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 6
Moving the Paddles Now that we have a moving ball we need to also move the paddles so we can hit it, and once that is done we have the skeleton of a working game! We’ll be moving the paddles via a script, and we are also going to be getting player input to move … Read moreBeginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 5
Physics and Scripting 101 We’ve now got most of the groundwork out of the way and can start to dabble in physics and scripting, which will quickly start turning this abstract project into a game. I will assume you have some amount of programming knowledge or experience, but if you don’t you can still follow … Read moreBeginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 4
Transforming and More Prefabs So far we’ve focused on using Unity’s interface. In this section we’ll start shaping our project into something resembling an actual game while learning some key game-making skills. Here’s what we’ll do: Investigate some Unity settings Create a wall around our game area Place our player paddles in their starting positions … Read moreBeginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 3
Paddles, Prefabs, and Proper Folder Structure We covered a lot of strange new concepts in Part 1, so in Part 2 we’ll solidify those fundamentals before moving on to other new topics. We’re going to create a couple of new GameObjects for our player paddles, and this time you will use a prefab. We’ll also do … Read moreBeginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 2
Do you want to create a game in Unity, but don’t know where to start? This guide is for you. In simple steps, explaining everything as I go, I’ll show you how to use Unity to build a 2D Pong clone. Introduction Prerequisites You need a code editor for the scripting. Unity provides one … Read moreBeginner’s Guide: Create a Pong Clone in Unity: Part 1
Following on from Part 2, where we looked at the common Unity MonoBehaviour methods like Update() and OnEnable(), in Part 3 we will look at the MonoBehaviour methods that deal with physics collisions. These methods make common physics behaviours easy to manage. A few quick notes: In this article I will discuss the 2D versions … Read moreUnity Scripting Primer Part 3: Collisions and Triggers
In Part 1 I covered public and serialized variables in Unity scripts. In Part 2 I will talk about MonoBehaviour methods. Unity scripts by default inherit MonoBehavior, and therefore implement many standard methods, which give great automatic functionality. When a script inherits MonoBehavior, it is declared like this: Inheritance is an important part of programming, so read up … Read moreUnity Scripting Primer Part 2: MonoBehaviour Basics
We’ve all asked for help online and been given a succinct answer that, while probably 100% accurate, wasn’t any help at all because the helper assumed we knew something we didn’t. So frustrating! In these posts I’ll cover the most simple, basic building blocks of Unity scripting without making too many assumptions, and I’ll be glad … Read moreUnity Scripting Primer Part 1: Public and Serialized Variables