Welcome to Part 9 of our Metroidvania tutorial series, where we’ll take you on a journey through the development process of creating your own Metroidvania game, just like the widely popular Hollow Knight, in Unity!
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Creating a Metroidvania (like Hollow Knight) — Part 8: Wall Jump, Unlocking Abilities & Spells, Mask & Soul Vessel Shards and Inventory
Welcome to Part 8 of our Metroidvania tutorial series, where we’ll take you on a journey through the development process of creating your own Metroidvania game, just like the widely popular Hollow Knight, in Unity!
Try it yourself: Compare the performance of Java’s String vs. StringBuilder vs. StringBuffer
If you are dynamically generating strings in your Java program, one of the best things you can do for your program is to build your string using a StringBuilder or StringBuffer, as opposed to using a regular old String.
The reason for this? In Java, strings are immutable, and every time you concatenate a string that the program hasn’t seen before, a new string object is created and stored in the heap. This means the whole process involves a lot of reading from and writing to the memory. The StringBuilder and StringBuffer in Java are objects that are designed to do string concatenation in a more efficient manner, but how much more?
We’ve got a simple Java program here that you can run from your browser so you can see it for yourself.
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Creating a Rogue-like Shoot ‘Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) — Part 12: Weapon Evolution
Ever wanted to create a rogue-like shoot ’em up game like Vampire Survivors? In Part 12 of our guide, we will go through how to create a weapon evolution system, similar to the one seen in Vampire Survivors. You can also find Part 11 of our guide here, where we touched up on certain aspects of our project such as identifying and fixing bugs, along with aesthetic changes
A link to a package containing the project files up to Part 12 of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article.
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Creating a Metroidvania (like Hollow Knight) — Part 7: Death, Respawn, Updating Map and Save system
Welcome to Part 7 of our Metroidvania tutorial series, where we’ll be taking you on a journey through the development process of creating your own Metroidvania game, just like the widely popular Hollow Knight, in Unity!
How to package and transfer your Unity project from one device to another
A common point of confusion amongst beginners in Unity is how to transfer a Unity project from one computer to another, as there are many ways this can be done. In this article, we will be exploring these methods, as well as their pros and cons.
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How to rewrite the author permalink URL structure in WordPress
Recently, one of our clients building their website on WordPress with us had a requirement — they wanted to have a URL base structure for their author pages that was different from the WordPress default. Instead of the default /author/[username] structure, they wanted to use /authors/[username] instead. Although there are plugins for this, we decided to implement it into the theme we were developing for the client to make the functionality as lightweight as possible.
Turns out, the implementation was pretty simple, as WordPress has built-in hooks for this. To update the author page URLs, we need to do 2 things:
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How to export your Unity project onto an executable (EXE) game on Windows
Unity provides game developers with a robust platform to create immersive experiences. Once you’ve completed your Unity project, it’s time to export it as an executable (.exe) file, allowing others to play your game on Windows. In this article, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of exporting a Unity project as an executable game on Windows, covering important considerations along the way.
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Creating a Metroidvania (like Hollow Knight) — Part 6: Enemies, Spikes, and an Advanced Camera
Welcome to Part 6 of our Metroidvania tutorial series, where we’ll be taking you on a journey through the development process of creating your own Metroidvania game, just like the widely popular Hollow Knight, in Unity!
Creating a Rogue-like Shoot ‘Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) — Part 11: Code and Aesthetic Touch-ups
Ever wanted to create a rogue-like shoot ’em up game like Vampire Survivors? In Part 11 of our guide, we will be touching up on certain aspects of our project such as identifying and fixing bugs, along with aesthetic changes. You can also find Part 10 of our guide here, where we went through how to create additional features for our game manager by continuing where we left off. We also covered some important additions to UI elements.
A link to a package containing the project files up to Part 11 of this tutorial series can also be found at the end of this article.