As a game gets more complex, it is important to add more comprehensive enemy types to challenge the player. A simple way to start adding more depth is to make an enemy “aware” of its surroundings. …

2D Space Shooter — Phase II: Core Programming Challenges — Objective: Detect a projectile Player Attack and move the Enemy(dodge) out of the way to avoid the shot. Note: In the previous article, I introduced Raycasting. This article will be using some of the logic explained there. Detect an Object’s Position Using Raycast First, we need to declare our global variables.

Space Shooter — Phase II: Core Programming Challenges — Objective: Learn the basic concept and syntax of Raycast, and how to debug it. What is a Raycast?

2D Space Shooter — Phase II: Core Programming Challenges — Objective: Create an Enemy type that will ram and try to chase the player within a given range. Note: This script is attached to the Enemy. First, we need to be able to measure the distance between the Enemy Object and the Player Object. …

What is a For Loop? A For Loop is a structure that allows us to iterate a block of code a specific number of times. While all loops are used for iterative purposes, the for loop excels at giving us the ability to know exactly how many times the block of code will run.

What is an Array? An Array is a variable that holds multiple values of the same type. As such, they are commonly used to organize data to make it easy to sort and easy to search through. For example, a list of student names which all go in the same file.

2D Space Shooter — Phase II: Core Programming Challenges — Objective: In the previous article, we took a look at how to add enemies with shields. In this article, we will be building up from that code to randomize the enemies so that some of them have shields while others don’t. Note: This code is aimed at variations of a…