Accessing an objects Components Every GameObject’’s Components can be accessed in a hierarchical way. In the Object’s Inspector, we can find the Transform component where we have access to the object’s position (x,y,z), rotation (x,y,z) and Scale (x,y,z). We can access each individual component.

Controlling the Player with the Keyboard In order to be able to move our Player horizontally or vertically with our keyboard using the Left arrow, Right arrow, “a” and “d” keys for horizontal movement or the Up arrow, Down arrow, “w” and “s” keys for vertical movement, we must access…

What are GameObjects in Unity? When you are creating a game in Unity, everything you create is basically a GameObject. They can represent characters, props, lighting. By themselves, they are simply containers for components which will then implement functionality. Creating a basic GameObject in Unity can be as simple as…

Take them out in style — What is better than exterminating your enemy? to watch them explode upon elimination. Special Effects give a game that special eye-candy that many desire. Here, we are going to make our enemies explode in a ball of fire when they get destroyed. To attach the sprite animation of the explosion…

And yourself some credit. — All games should have a Main Menu with a splash scene. In our game all we need is a cool graphic and a New Game button. The splash screen / Main Menu should be a scene on its own. …

Trigger with a key press — Your player is having an awesome time playing your 2D Space Shooter game. Eventually they loose all their lives. They would like to play again, so let’s give them this option. …

Lets Make it Flicker Too. — Now that we have run out of lives, it is time we tell the player the Game is Over. In order to add this text to our User Interface, we will need to add a text object. Select Canvas, right click and select UI, Text.

More UI Elements — Previously we added the player’s score on the screen. Now lets add how many lives the player has at any given moment. We will be using some sprites for this. In Sprites, UI, Lives, we have 4 life options, no_lives, One, Two and Three. In order to get the sprites…

Adding UI elements to your game — Getting UI elements on to your game like Score or Lives available or text boxes, etc. is quite simple in Unity. We have our player, enemies, lasers and powerups ready. Now we need to work on our interface. For our game to be more interesting, we need to have a…