Unit testing is a great tool to help you develop great games, and having the right frameworks in Unity makes that possible. Moq is a popular mocking library for C# that allows you to simplify your unit tests and mock behaviors of your dependencies. It can be a little tricky to install for Unity, so…
Learn how to create a dynamic objective system for your game in this Unity Tutorial. An objective system provide players with goals and structure and can be a good way to guide players through your game. In this guide, we’ll look at how to structure and define objectives and create a basic UI system to…
Game development can be tedious and challenging. We spend a lot of time building tools and systems instead of actual gameplay mechanics and content. Fortunately, Unity’s Asset Store has tons of amazing resources that can really streamline your workflow and enhance your project. In this blog post, I’ll share my favorite (and even essential) Unity assets that I include in almost every project. These are the best assets out there that are critical for my productivity or a huge time saver.
Monetizing your mobile game is essential in generating revenue from your game and in this tutorial I will show you the easiest way I’ve found to integrate Ads & Mediation in Unity. We will take advantage of a really good asset to speed up our development and save time. We will also use Unity LevelPlay…
There is a 300MB file size limit for Unity Android Debug Symbols when uploading your apk/aab to the Google Play Console. These debug symbols are useful when debugging crashes from your players. The debug symbols that Unity generates is usually larger than the limit (500MB – 2GB). In my case, the debug symbols were always…
I wrote a tutorial a few years ago for creating a cooldown timer in unity. While that version worked fine, I’ve decided to update the tutorial and script with a more robust version that better suits unity. This cooldown timer is designed to be used for anything from abilities, monster spawners, weapon attacks, and much…
I consider automated tests to be a cornerstone of building high quality software. Testing should be taken seriously in all aspects of software development and creating games in Unity should be no exception. In this tutorial I’ll focus on the unit testing aspect of test driven development (TDD). I’ve found that Unity resources and tutorials…
Cloud Build is a service that Unity offers that allows the automatic build, deploy, and testing of your games. I’ve been using it for over a year now and it’s one of the better solutions for continuous deployment on the Unity platform. In this tutorial I will go over steps on how to set it…
I saw this question pop up a few times on the forums recently so thought I’d share a quick tip on how to easily do this. The question is “How do I find the height and width in WORLD units that is visible in the current camera view”. It’s actually quite easy, here’s a quick…
I was adding some particles to my Unity prototype and found myself unable to do any scaling of the particles using the game object’s transform. I wanted to programmatically scale them through the parent, but it seemed like the particle system was not affected by transform scale. After some digging, it turns out that there…