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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

You're reading from   Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Enter the world of 2D Game development with Unity 5.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397173
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Flat World in Unity 2. Baking Cupcake Towers FREE CHAPTER 3. Communicating with the Player – the User Interface 4. No Longer Alone – Sweet-Toothed Pandas Strike 5. The Secret Ingredient Is a Dash of Physics 6. Through a Sea of Sprinkles – Navigation in Artificial Intelligence 7. Trading Cupcakes and the Ultimate Battle for the Cake – Gameplay Programming 8. What Is beyond the Cake?

Making sprinkles


In the Prefabs section, we created the Prefab for our sprinkle projectile. In this section, we will see how to make sprinkles move into the 2D space. In particular, we will learn how to create and use scripts in Unity for 2D game elements.

The projectile class

Since there might be different projectiles in our game that can be thrown against the sweet-tooth pandas, and not only sprinkles, we need to define a general class. All the different kinds of projectile will follow some general rules:

  • They move in a straight line

  • They carry information about how much damage they will inflict on the enemies

Whereas the first is identical for all the projectiles, the second depends on the specific kind of projectile that will be fired. So, we need to create a template. Once we attach this script to a game object, we can set some of its variables and tweak its behavior. In this specific case, we want to tweak how much damage is given and how fast.

Scripting the projectile mother class

So, to...

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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development
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ISBN-13: 9781784397173
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