Learn how to create immersive and interactive AR experiences using the Unity game engine and the ARCore SDK — Augmented reality (AR) allows you to superimpose digital content onto the physical world, creating immersive and interactive experiences. This tutorial will look at how to get started with AR in Unity using Google’s ARCore, a popular game engine for building AR and VR applications.

How to use cryptographically secure random number generators in your C# code — Generating a random number is not necessarily difficult, but generating a truly random number can be challenging. A random number is a number that is chosen in a way that is impossible to predict. …

Unleash the power of particles in your games — The Unity particle system is a powerful tool for creating a wide range of visual effects, from explosions and fire to water and magic spells. This tool allows you to create and customize complex particle systems, and to control their behavior and appearance in your games. In this article, we…

How common design techniques create engaging gameplay experiences and make development easier. — Game design patterns are a crucial aspect of the video game industry, allowing designers to create engaging and immersive experiences for players. These patterns, which have been developed and refined over the years, serve as a set of tried-and-true methods for creating compelling game mechanics, interactions, and challenges. From the…

A quick start guide to using events in Unity — In Unity, events are used to trigger actions in your game. You can use events to send messages between game objects, or to trigger actions when certain conditions are met. There are several reasons why you might want to use events in your Unity projects: Events allow you to send…

Using the Text Mesh Pro API to customize text in your Unity game — Text Mesh Pro is a powerful tool for displaying text in Unity. It offers a number of benefits over the built-in Unity text rendering system, including: Higher quality text rendering: Text Mesh Pro uses advanced rendering techniques to display text more accurately and with greater detail than the built-in Unity…

Using MoonSharp to integrate LUA into your Unity game — To implement LUA into your Unity game using MoonSharp, you will need to use the MoonSharp scripting backend for Unity, which provides a LUA-C# bridge that you can use to call LUA code from your C# Unity game. First, you will need to download and install MoonSharp in your Unity…

Learn how to use AI algorithms and techniques to create a turret that tracks and fires at the player, and adapts to different game scenarios in Unity. — Enemy AI is one of the most difficult and exciting parts of game development. Determining the fine line between overpowered and dumb enemies can take time to master. One of the most difficult tasks I tackled was a simple turret system. So let’s explore that a little.

Learn how to use interfaces to define reusable components, reduce duplication, and simplify complex systems in your Unity projects. — Interfaces in C# are a language feature that allows developers to define a set of related methods and properties that a class must implement. This is useful in Unity because it allows you to create reusable components that can be used in a variety of different contexts.