I have started to make a game in Unity. I have been on the edge of trying this for a while, by gently dipping my toe in, with no real conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, however, I have resolved myself to try and actually get into this process and produce something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The game is going to be in 2D using the DOTs architecture. Even though this probably isn’t necessary I have been on the fringes of the DOTs framework since I found out about it, and I think using it will ultimately give me the greatest leaway in terms of performance given that the whole point of the architecture is to vastly increase performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OK, so the first step of this is to figure out the basic physics. The graphics will be sprites which is OK for the player\/enemy characters, as these can be rendered from the DOTS subscene. However, background items from the tilemap are not. This in itself isn’t a massive problem, as my thought is to use a simple empty game object so that there is a local transform. I can also attach a rigidbody and collider to it that will be baked into the DOTs environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My first attempt at this led a funny incident. I managed to get my player character (currently a red square) moving around and jumping, however, at some point the object fell over and started tumbling around on the z-axis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, my first challenge here is to get the physics working to enable basic movement but constraining the z axis. There are many more features to a great 2D controller system, however, for the moment I will focus on this baby step and see if I can get it working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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