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. …

Setting up Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions — Part 1 — What is CI/CD? Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, or CI/CD, is the term given to the process of automatically building a project and deploying it out to delivery channels like itch.io, the android store, or the iOS store every time code is successfully merged into a specific branch or branches in source control…

The Escape Button is a Feature — Welcome back! Today we’re going to talk about a simple but important feature. Being able to close out of our game using the Escape key. By default, our game doesn’t know that pressing the escape key should exit our game and if we are running in Full Screen mode this…

How to Host Unity Games on the Web — In our last article we covered building and testing our unity project. We did this primarily through our standalone builds for Windows, Mac OS, or Linux, but we touched upon a few settings that needed to be changed for WebGL Builds. Namely, the compression format. It is important to have…

How to Build and Test your Unity Game — Today we’re going to look at manually building and deploying our game in Unity. Yes, I said manually. I prefer to set up a Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline that produces built project files for each platform I need to release my game on but the steps involved are far…

How to Play Sound Effects in Unity — Last time we looked at how to add background music to our game to increase our player’s immersion. Now let's add sound effects! We’re going to add a laser sound when ever the player fires a laser. Adding a Laser Sound For this project we’ve been provided with a laser sound, so we’ll use…

Adding Background Music in Unity — Now that we’ve added post processing to make our game look like a AAA title we need to round it out with sound! If we really want to immerse our players into our game sound plays a huge part in it! From the subtle background sounds of birds and foot…

Excluding Objects from Post Processing — In our previous article we took a look at adding post processing to our scene to add effects like Bloom and Color Correction. I have found, while working on a project that sometimes you have objects that you don’t want to apply post processing to. …