With all of our foundations in place, it’s time to dive into the nitty-gritty of creating attack patterns. This part can get a bit tedious, as there’s simply a lot of different attacks to create and set parameters for, so I’ll only showcase a few key examples. …

With our turrets having some basic functionality, it’s time to start telling the boss what to actually do with them. Initializing the Boss As soon as the boss spawns, we need to give it all the usual suspects; the spawn manager, the player, the UI manager, and so on. We also need to…

With the boss completely put together, it’s time to start bringing everything to life! Up until this point, I’ve decided how many components each phase will have, where the boss should be positioned for each phase, and gotten a general idea of what kind of attacks the boss should have. Briefing the Components …

With our core idea in mind, it’s time to actually build the boss out. This can be a bit of a tedious process, so I won’t cover it in detail, but you can see a scaled-down version of the end result above! Preparing the Components First thing’s first; we already know that every…

Bosses are almost synonymous with action games. At the end of every level, every campaign, there’s the boss waiting for you, ready to end your hero’s journey. Brainstorming: Basic Design We’re going to take a bit of a departure from code for a bit to talk about some broader design concepts. What goes…

Now that enemies can have advanced movement patterns, the next logical step is to tie multiple enemies together into a full wave. Basic Wave Setup The easiest and most straightforward way to set up a wave is to do something similar to how we created the Triple Shot; create an empty game object…

Now that we have some more advanced movement patterns set up, it’s time to start setting up the foundations to creating an actual level in the game. …

It’s time to make our first truly complex weapon for the player: A spray of homing missiles. What Features Do We Want? There’s a lot of moving parts in this, so let me break down everything involved. First, we want to fire 4 missiles every time the missile button is pressed. We want each missile…

Now that we’ve made enemies much more dangerous, let’s start putting a bit of power back into the player’s hands. We’re going to look at “vacuum” commands for powerups, and the classic: Homing Missiles. Basic Vacuum Effects This part is pretty simple; we want powerups to move towards the player once “C” is…