Day 5 It’s time to start animating our sprites! To animate this Powerup we are going to use Unity’s Animator, which can be opened with (ctrl+6).

Day 4. Up until now the game’s graphics have been rather primitive. The reason for this was to focus on mechanics and code first and foremost, without having flashy visuals do distract you from finding and improving flaws. But with the solid foundation now established I will be moving to production assets.

Day 3. Now that the player can move it’s time to make them shoot! To do this we need to spawn a projectile from the player on a key press. First we make a gameobject to represent our projectile. …

Day 3. Moving the player with user input involves manipulation of the transform component.

Day 2. First real day of coding and making stuff happen in unity. Writing what I want to do in regular text before trying to write in code seems to be an effective way make sense of what needs to be done.

Day 1: I’m exited to start my game development journey today! With the help and guidance of GameDevHq. I’ve barely started and the course is already full of great recommendations that I haven't ever received courses Ive taken before… Changing the layout to a more usable and professional one! VS

GameDevHq day 1. Git is downright essential when working on software projects with multiple people, but it can also be a lifesaver when working alone. Step one, downloading and installing Git form git-scm.com Your system will be detected, and you can download the relevant version(Windows in my case.) After downloading…