Of course we have our ship’s movements to consider for animation, but let’s start with something simple for now. We’ve introduced the Triple Shot laser power up previously. …

We’re enabling a timed “power up” of the primary weapons systems, the lasers. This power pickup enables you to leverage three lasers at a time instead of just one for a short duration (currently set to 5.0s). Now that we have a few game mechanics in place as well as…

In Sovereignty, we want to spawn enemies in a random position at the top of the screen, for the player to engage as they automatically move down the screen. As we know, if we let the enemies fly down to the bottom, they re-spawn at a random position at the…

For the case of Sovereignty, there aren’t going to be any hard surface collisions. Why do I bring that up? Because that means we’re primarily going to be leveraged OnTriggerEnter for our collisions as we have things “pass through” each other and determine how to interact upon their first touch…

In Sovereignty, we don’t really want to allow unlimited/infinite and no-lag weapons fire. Therefore, we need to enable a Cooldown (CD) on player input of the weapons that are capable of being fired.

It’s a fairly straight forward affair when you consider the mechanics. Retrieve the axis you’re interested in and store them in a local variable. Generate the direction of motion based on these inputs. Perform a translate upon the game object’s transform with an arbitrary speed value and multiplied by Time.deltaTime…