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Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

By : Bruno Cicanci
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Book Image

Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

4.5 (2)
By: Bruno Cicanci

Overview of this book

Building a successful real-time strategy game is challenging, because of both the complex mechanics and the need to strike a balance between different elements, ensuring that players enjoy creating and executing strategies against the game's AI. Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023 will teach you how to install and set up the Unity game engine, create a new 3D project, and build a level editor to make it easier to modify and add maps to a game. The RTS game will start to take shape while you learn to implement different core systems such as melee and ranged battles, unit spawners, camera controls, dynamic mapping generation, basic enemy AI, and the pathfinder algorithm. You'll also get to grips with implementing command units to perform actions, crafting and producing resources, basic physics and collision detection, and building an RTS game from scratch using C# and the latest features of the Unity game engine. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to make professional and high-quality end-to-end RTS games using the best practices and techniques from the gaming industry.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundations of RTS Games
6
Part 2: The Combat Units
11
Part 3: The Battlefield
15
Part 4: The Gameplay

Part 3: The Battlefield

In this third part of the book, you will learn how to configure different types of enemies and spawn them on the map, as well as how to create a basic AI to patrol and chase the player’s units. You will also learn how to implement a battle between the units and enemies, using collision and damage calculation based on the configuration of each character, and creating their life cycle with animations and feedback.

After having finished the battle implementation, you will see how we can configure groups of enemies and add them to the map using a spawn point. Finally, you will learn how to cover the map with fog and unveil the areas that are explored by the player, using units.

This part includes the following chapters: