We’ve implemented damage already for our player and given them 3 lives. Let’s add a health pick-up that can repair their ship. The objective with this feature is to restore a single ‘life’ to the player when they collect the health pick-up. …

In the first part of this article we implemented limited ammo for the player, but this left them with nothing to fire before long. Let’s add a collectable to reload the ammo. First off, I want to quickly add a sound to indicate when the ammo is zero.

One way to add extra tension to our game is to limit the amount of ammunition the player has. Here’s one way to implement the feature: We’ll start by tracking and limiting the ammo our player has.

To make our shield power-up a more interesting boost, we can make it a multi-level protection for the player. Here’s how we implement it. The objective here is to give our shield 3 charges before it disappears and protect the player while active. …

Our game currently has a speed boost powerup that is collectable, but it would be good to add a speed boost that is directly controlled by the player. Here’s how. The objective with this feature is to speed up player movement as long as the left shift key is pressed…

Your game is a modern marvel, and it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want to leave, but just in case, here’s how to allow the player to break out. Currently our project has to be run in Windowed mode to avoid having to use Task Manager or ‘Alt+F4’ to…

You’ve built and tested your game but now you want to share it with the world. One way to do this is to build it for WebGL and share it on the web. Here’s how. — Currently, our project is setup to build for Windows. To change this we need to go to File > Build Settings. Select WebGL and then click ‘Switch Platform’.

You’ve been creating your masterpiece in Unity and testing it as you go, but now it’s time to do a full build and test it as a standalone. Here’s how. — Once we’ve saved everything, we can go to File > Build Settings. In here we want to make sure that we have our Main Menu set to scene 0 and our Game, or first level at least, set to scene 1. We click on Player Settings and under ‘Player’ change…

We know how to play a looped background music, but what about sounds that play when an action occurs? Let’s take a look at setting up the laser sound. — First we need to add an audio source to the Player object. We also want to uncheck ‘Play On Awake’ as we need to script when sounds are played.