Learn how to use the new Unity3D Input System. The system is in an early access form and available now to try out. In this tutorial, I’ll show you the basics of setting up the system. We’ll create a mini project with some different behaviors like rapid fire, movement, and more all using the new system and it’s action mapping system.
Learn how to use the new nested prefabs with space ship examples. We’ll go through the new unity prefab workflow, crease some prefabs, make them children of other prefabs, revert, apply, nest again, and more!
This new nested prefab workflow can make a huge difference in your projects, and in this video I wanted to give a couple examples of how you could use them to simplify and componentize your prefab workflow.
The factory pattern is a great way to create your objects. You can use it to defer creation of objects when you don’t know at compile time what you’ll need. In this video, I’ll show you some examples of where this pattern can fit into your games and how it can make your projects better.
Learn how to use Raycasts in a Unity game to do shot detection, line of sight checks, or even object selection. You’ll see how to use layers to filter objects and only select the correct ones and we’ll go through a few different samples of Physics.Raycast and Physics.Raycastall.
Learn how to use NSubstitute with your Unity games to mock monobehaviors. It’ll make unit testing your unity code properly much easier. If you’ve never written a unit test before, I’ll take you all the way through the process. Show why mocks are important and exactly how to set them up in a real project.
Learn how to use the Unity UGUI system to connect your dynamically configured buttons up to actual code. I’ll show you how to make the buttons change their text and responses as the player progresses, all in a simple easy to use package.
Check out some of the coolest technology I’ve grabbed up during the black friday deal time. I’ll share my favorite things for the home and for all the must haves for game developers, along with the best prices I’ve found on them. If you come across great deals that should be on here though, please drop a comment below, I’ll add the best ones to the description!
Object pooling is critical to making your game run fast and smooth. I’ll show you how to create and use a variety of generic pooling systems from the most tightly coupled to the most generic. We’ll save garbage allocations, improve performance, and do it all with simple reusable code!
Work life balance at game companies is always a hugely heated topic. Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions – ‘what it’s really like’ and ‘is it really that bad?’ In this video I’ll go over my own experience along with what I’ve seen from friends and colleagues in the industry. Is crunching really that bad? Is it that common? Watch and find out 🙂
The humble object pattern makes unit testing easy in Unity, but it also encourages some other SOLID principles. While it’s not in the game programming patterns book, it is a great pattern for everyone to know how to use that I wanted to include in this series 🙂