As a Unity developer, you know that creating great games and experiences takes a lot of hard work and dedication. But what if there was a way to make the coding process a little bit easier and more efficient? Well, there is and it’s called GitHub Copilot! GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant that…
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.
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…
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…
In this Unity tutorial, I’ll show you how to effortlessly read JSON files to import data into your game. JSON is an excellent way to manage your game data and seamlessly load it as Unity objects during runtime. Games typically involve a lot of data that used for different game mechanics and behaviors. Examples include…
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to implement data structures for your tile-map / tile-based game. Using a grid based approach is a popular technique for many types of games, such as RPGs, board games, and RTS games. These games usually have a ‘top-down’ look, but other approaches can be tackled as well. For…