The terrain system in Unity is easy to learn and use but is awfully dated in terms of features and visually needs a lot of work to look great. I’m no expert in Unity Terrain but I’ve been working on a new game that uses the Terrain system and haven’t been happy with how the…
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…
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…
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…
It’s been 39 years since the 1980 eruption at Mount Saint Helens. There’s plenty to see and do at the national monument – my favorite being the milky way. The best times to see the Milky Way are earlier in the year when the sky gets dark enough early in the night. If you come…
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…
Quite commonly game state machines are designed to be overly complex and hard to understand. As the game expands, they become larger and harder to follow. Somehow the game still magically works and most of the time nothing is done to simplify it. Generally most games revolve around a few states and limiting the number…