Refilling Player Health — Welcome back! I’ll be continuing to implement the requirements for the first phase of the 2D games certification in the GameDevHQ Professional Unity Developer Program! Todays requirement is to create a new collectible object for the player that will allow them to regain some of their health. …

Refilling Player Ammo — Welcome back! I’ll be continuing to implement the requirements for the first phase of the 2D games certification in the GameDevHQ Professional Unity Developer Program! Todays requirement is to create a new collectible object for the player that will allow them to refill their ammo. The requirement reads as follows: …

Limit Player Ammo — In todays article we continue implementing the requirements for the first phase of the 2D games certification in the GameDevHQ Professional Unity Developer Program! Todays requirement is to limit the number of normal shots the player can fire by adding an ammo limit. We’re also going to alert the player…

Enabling and Displaying Shield Strength — In todays article we continue implementing the requirements for the first phase of the 2D games certification in the GameDevHQ Professional Unity Developer Program! Todays requirement is to give the player some more power to their shields by increasing the number of hits they can take and giving the players…

Allowing the player to activate thrusters — In todays article we start implementing a number of requirements to our game that were supplied as the first phase of two phases that comprise the 2D Games Certification for the 2D Game Development course in the GameDevHQ Professional Unity Developer Program. The coming articles may be shorter than my…

Setting up Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions — Publish to GitHub pages In my last article, we looked at setting up the continuous delivery portion of our pipeline using GitHub Actions so that our project would release to our itch.io account every time we created a new release in our GitHub repository. itch.io isn’t the only place we have available to us…

Setting up Continuous Deployment to itch.io with GitHub Actions — In the last article, we looked at implementing our continuous integration pipeline using GitHub actions. Now we should have a project that builds for multiple platforms and uploads those builds to a place that we can download them from every time we build (to the master branch)! That’s awesome! …

Setting up Continuous Integration with Unity and GitHub Actions — Part 3 — Last time, we looked at getting our first workflow into GitHub and using it to obtain a Unity license file, which we stored in our GitHub secrets. Today we’re going to go over the details for implementing our Build workflow. Setting up the build Workflow There are a few steps to the process of setting…

Setting up Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions — Part 2 — Last time, we looked at What Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are, some factors involved with making a choice on tooling for our project, and a brief introduction to GitHub Actions which is the tool chain we decided to utilize. …