White boxes falling from the sky is a beautiful site, but it would look even better if the debris appeared to change color. In this section we are going to look at how to access the “color” property of an object programmatically using the Mesh Renderer component.

In this section we look deeper into Unity’s UI system, including the various configurations for the Canvas, creating and navigating our own Buttons.

This week we are going to look at improving the quality of our UI, moving between scenes, preserving objects within those moves, and publishing our games. We have a ton of content to get to, so let’s go!

In this week’s class, we discussed strategies for audio, and covered the Singleton pattern – a very powerful tool (but also a potentially tricky/dangerous one) for organizing our game and exposing our “manager” scripts to the objects in our scene. The videos this week will cover updates to our Astral Attackers game to build a Sound Manager, create the Game Manager which will handle our game state and flow, and finally we will make some visual improvements to our environment and to our enemies to spice things up.

Today we started out on our new game – “Astral Attackers” – a Space Invaders inspired alien shooter that we will use to illustrate the ways in which the objects in our object-oriented program interact with one another. Instead of a coordinated central script controlling the action, the gameplay instead emerges from the behaviors we give the objects themselves.

This week, we replicate last week’s accomplishments in a matter of minutes by using the tools that Unity affords us. This frees up extra time to build our even more of our game and get to work on the logic of moving through the stages of our gameplay. We will work with physics, collisions, sound, scripting prefabs, enumerations, coroutines, and Unity’s UI system. Let’s jump in!