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There are a lot of ways to communicate between gameobjects. So many that sometimes it might get confusing to decide how to do that. Here I’ll go one by one and generally describe use cases for each so that you…
One of the most important aspects of game design is the core mechanic. It sets the foundation for a great game and determines its overall success. But what makes a core mechanic truly great? According to the book Clockwork Game…
Hypercasual market is getting harder and harder to crack. With excessive prototypes in the market, getting one with good KPI numbers is difficult. But when you do it’s necessary to ensure it has a very good LTV (Life Time Value).…
Welcome back! Time to continue our journey with our hypercasual game. What we were missing in the last episode was enemies and we will get into it now. An enemy works similarly to the person that we have in the…
We left off at a place where we had a nice modifier base class waiting to be overridden with features. First, we will create the crowd-generation mechanic. Let’s start by creating a prefab out of our Person gameobject which. We…
I was the producer for a ragdoll-based PvE fighting game featuring simple controls. The idea and vision for the game originated from our programmer, and after discussing the overall plan, I trusted his direction and supported him by facilitating the…
In this series, we will break down the game Crowd Evolution and create the core of the game in Unity. We will go through the modules of the core gameplay only. Let’s see, we have a crowd of people moving…
ANt Colony Based on market research, I identified that arcade idle games were emerging as a popular genre in mobile gaming. Prior tests with three arcade idle games showed strong in-game metrics. In one such game, Monument Builder, players collected…
TLDR; Find the full script here We will be covering the swerve input from the popular runner mechanics. This input has been used over and over again in hyper-casual games and is probably the most used one. Runner games have been…
Arcade idle games are a no joke development-wise. It can take up a lot of time and effort and understandably so. The day 0 playtime of arcade idle can reach up to 4 times higher than hypercasual in general which…
