In this article I want to go over how to set up a switch container. Theres several reasons to use them, but in this example I am going to use a switch container to handle the sound effects for each power up when collected. They should all have their own…

In the last article we handled playing a sound from one of the built in Wwise components. I’ll dig into how to post events from a script in this article. There are lots of reasons to post an event from a script. In this instance, I have the player laser…

In this article I’ll go over 1 basic way to post an event from Wwise. The first way is simply with the AKEvent Component. There are lots of ways and this way is easiest for this demo. First I need to cover how to create an event in Wwise and…

So I realized a lot of the articles I wrote in the past are still very applicable today. Using what we have learned so far with Unity’s new input system, I’m sure you can handle some of the other features such as getting thrusters to work etc etc. I want…

For the Player’s shield I want to be able to give the player 1 free life. So when they collect the shield powerup, the shield appears. When they get hit, their lives do not subtract but the shield disappears. First I needed to make the shield power up and the…

In this article I’m going to implement a new powerup. When collected the player’s speed will increase for 5 seconds and then return to normal. First I created a Speed Boost Power Up prefab. Added a box collider 2D, a rigidbody 2D, and the Powerup script. There is a problem…

Right now I’ve got a cool little laser that I can fire and its all good, but I wanna get weird, so I made a triple shot power up. I made this power up by using three of the laser prefabs. I dragged them into the Hierarchy and then positioned…

So the rest of the week was pretty much a blur. Luca was either awake and dealing with teething (shoving his hands in his mouth, crying, or making weird noises because of the gum soother we got him), or sleeping. He had a hard time sleeping during the day, and…

So we have enemies, we have lasers, we have movement, all thats left is EXPLOSIONS AND SOUND EFFECTS AND CINEMATIC CUTSCENES.. right? Well.. first we need to define logic that will eventually lead to stuff like that. Before I do that, I want to go ahead and switch all the…