Learn how to make strategy games! Explore resource management, tower defense, RTS mechanics, and more via these strategy game tutorials.
Introduction Ready to challenge your players to unique, brain-busting puzzles? Puzzle games are a fairly unique genre in game development, requiring even more work than many other genres in its level design phase. However, they can also be a rewarding experience in terms of development, as they offer unique challenges and systems that can be … Read more
Introduction One of the most incredible things about game design is the ability to do things that are impossible in reality. A chief example of this is the idea of the orthographic view. Computers have the ability to construct a perspective that does not even exist in real life. This has some fascinating consequences when … Read more
You can access the full course here: Real-time Strategy Project – Resource Gathering Creating the Resource Object To begin, let’s create a new empty GameObject called Resource_Tree. Next, drag the Tree model into the scene as a child of the empty object. Set the Position to 0, 0, 0 Set the Scale to 0.12, 0.12, 0.12 Next, select the Resource_Tree object. … Read more
You can access the full course here: Real-time Strategy Project – Resource Gathering Camera Setup The camera controller will allow us to move the camera around with the keyboard and zoom in/out. This is similar to many other RTS games and their camera systems. Before we start scripting, let’s change the camera transform a bit. … Read more
You can access the full course here: Real-time Strategy Project – Unit Movement Multiple Units To begin, let’s duplicate the unit a few times and move them around. Then select the Player and drag the unit objects into the Units list. Box Select UI For the box select, create a new UI canvas. As a child of … Read more
You can access the full course here: Turn-Based Game – Multiplayer Projects Part 1 Folder Structure In the Unity project, let’s setup our folders in the Project window. Create the following folders: Resources Sprites Scenes (if you don’t have it) Tilemap Scenes Now we need to create our two scenes: Menu and Game. In both scenes, we need … Read more
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Become a professional VR developer as you learn to code and create 15 immersive games in Unity from the ground up – no prior programming experience required! Welcome to the world’s most comprehensive online curriculum on VR game development, where you will learn and master the foundations of C#, Unity and VR by building practical … Read more
Go from Zero to Professional Game Programmer as you build 2D, 3D, Mobile, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Games with Unity! The Unity Game Development Mini-Degree is a massive collection of online courses that will teach you how to code and build impressive games with Unity. Beginning with the fundamentals of coding and the basics of the … Read more
Phaser game engine has many new and useful features for a faster and easier game development process. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple tower defense game in Phaser 3 style. First we will create an empty game, then we will continue with adding enemies, turrets and bullets. We will use … Read more
