Creating a Rogue-like (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity — Implementing Mobile Compatibility: Part 1

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Creating a Rogue-like Shoot 'Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity

Update 22 January 2024: There was a bug in our Virtual Joystick Pack that we’ve fixed. If you were having problems getting the joystick to work after exiting the game and restarting it, please redownload the pack and reimport it into your project.

Implementing Mobile Compatibility is a short series of articles that will complement our main Vampire Survivors series. As the name suggests, in this series of articles, we will be exploring how to bring mobile compatibility to the game that we have been building in our main series.

Specifically, in this article (and the accompanying video that will be released soon), I will be covering — in general — the things to consider when introducing mobile compatibility to a game, as well as how to port the movement controls (the only mode of control in the game) to a mobile interface.

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Creating an Underwater Survival Game like Subnautica Part 5 — Crafting System

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Creating an Underwater Survival Game (like Subnautica) in Unity

Video authored, edited and subtitled by Sarah Kagda.

Hello everyone, and welcome to this installment of the Underwater Survival tutorial series! Here, I'll guide you in creating a Crafting System similar to Subnautica, as well as how to create recipes that you can use for the Crafting System.

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Creating a Metroidvania in Unity - Part 10

Creating a Metroidvania (like Hollow Knight) — Part 10: Boss Fight

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Creating a Metroidvania (like Hollow Knight) in Unity

Welcome to Part 10 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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How to unlink Desktop and other personal folders from OneDrive

How to unlink your Desktop and other personal folders from OneDrive

Newer versions of OneDrive automatically syncs the Desktop of your computer, along with other essential folders like your Documents and Pictures folders; and there seems to be no longer an option for you to opt out of this, or turn this off. While this may be great for the average user, if you are using your Windows to do Unity development work, it can lead to errors that are difficult to trace.

Hence, if you’re looking to unlink your Deskop and other essential folders from your OneDrive account, look no further than this article.

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How to import and use custom fonts in Unity

How to import and use fonts in your Text UI elements in Unity

When working with user interfaces in Unity, it’s often necessary to use a custom font for your text to improve the overall aesthetic of your game. In this article, we’ll take a step-by-step journey through the process of using a custom font for both legacy and TextMeshPro text in Unity.

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Damage Floating Text

Creating a Rogue-like (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity — Part 14: Damage Floating Text

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Creating a Rogue-like Shoot 'Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity

On 28 September, Terence ran the second coding stream on our YouTube channel. During the stream, he implemented a pop-up text that appears whenever an enemy receives damage, as shown below.

How the Damage Floating Text looks like.
How the Damage Floating Text looks like.

This article summarises the implementation of this feature by highlighting the changes to the existing codebase.

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Vampire Survivors Part 13

Creating a Rogue-like (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity — Part 13: Knockback and Damage Feedback

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Creating a Rogue-like Shoot 'Em Up (like Vampire Survivors) in Unity

4 October 2023: This article has been updated with new details.

Yesterday, Terence took over this project from Xavier and ran the first ever coding stream on our YouTube channel. The stream itself had quite a lot of technical issues and hence, a lot of room for improvement, but he managed to implement a couple of features that we wanted to document here.

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What is a kinematic rigidbody?

What is a kinematic rigid body and how are they used in Unity?

If you’ve ever used a Rigidbody component in Unity, you may have seen a couple of settings on the component which may be a little difficult to understand the meaning of. On this site, we have covered what some of these settings mean and what they do, such as:

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