UNITY TUTORIAL 08

"It Is Time To Do The Design" by Tenney Tang on Dribbble.

This week I finished the final set of tutorials for the arcade-style sumo battle game and completed a challenge. I learned how to spawn up to 3 enemies by adding a new void to the SpawnManager and using for-loop. I also learned how to make the number of enemies increase with waves using the (++) operator as well as getting the power-up to respawn in a random spot at the start of each wave.

Screenshot of my work in Unity3D.

In challenge 4, I had to correct the scripts of a soccer themed game by applying what I learned from the sumo battle tutorials. I fixed the issue of the enemy flying towards the player instead of away when they collide by subtracting "transform.position" from "other.gameObject.transform.position" instead of the other way around. I replaced the "Powerup" tag under the enemyCount variable with "Enemy" so that a new wave begins when all the enemy balls are taken out instead of when the player collects a power-up. I also made the power-up's effects temporary. I made the number of enemies increase by 1 when a new wave begins using the (++) operator. I was a little unsure about how to get the enemy balls to move towards the goal but looked at the hints for some help then added a playerGoal variable.

This challenge took some time to complete because the scripts have a lot of code and I had to scan it all to find the errors but the comments helped with this.

Screenshot of my work in Unity3D.

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FIRST PLAYABLE

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UNITY TUTORIAL 07

Illustration by Saikat Kumar on Dribbble . This week I completed the first three tutorials for building an arcade-style sumo battle game. In the first set of tutorials, I imported the necessary assets and brought a sphere into the scene then applied a texture to the sphere. I learned how to give the main camera a focal point so that it can smoothly rotate around the play area. Following this, I learned how to make the ball roll towards the camera no matter what direction it is facing. I brought another sphere into the scene to act as an enemy in the second set of tutorials. I was introduced to physics materials where I was able to give the enemy the ability to bounce the player away. I made a new script and added code that allowed the enemy to follow the player. I also created a SpawnManager script for the enemy and applied the code which would cause the enemy to spawn in a random area at the start of the game. In the third set of tutorials, I brought in a star power-up and used ...

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