I have always enjoyed playing video games, and over the years I’ve gotten my spouse (and now our daughter) to play games together too. Before we had our daughter, my spouse and I played World of Warcraft (Wrath of the Lich King) together, and we had a ton of fun…

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Recently, I founded Atas Fun, an indie game development company that I will be using to release my games on the Google Play store, Apple app store, Steam store and others! It took quite some time to set up Atas Fun (my company) to be able to release games on…

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In most games, the player is able to save their progress in the game, so that they can continue their saved game at a later time. In the different game genres, there are multiple ways games can be saved. For level-based games (e.g., Candy Crush Saga, Overcooked!), a player’s progress…

I recently wrote a guide on reading external XML files in Unity. From some discussion in a Reddit post I made, I learned that Unity also has built-in support from JSON files, and there may be performance benefits to using JSON files instead of XML files. Hence, after considering to…

Update: I wrote a parallel version of this guide, on how to read external JSON files. Do check it out if you’re interested! The content of these two articles are similar, other than the format of the external files. Unity: Reading external JSON files By storing data in JSON files, we can make changes to our game (e.g., quests, language localization) without any…allison-liem.medium.com We can do a lot with the Unity editor, such as…

In some games, it is useful to have a day and night cycle. For example, In Mystery Queen, the creatures of the world behave differently depending on the time of day, e.g., Slimey is only active when the sun is up, and goes to sleep at dusk. In this guide…

In 2D games, characters (and sprites) move in an x-y plane corresponding to the screen. In order to create a sense of 3D depth, if an object A is “behind” an object B, then A is drawn on the screen before B, so B’s sprite occludes A. However, if the…