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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

Spawning an Army of Units

RTS games have a gameplay mechanic that allows you to spawn units and create large armies to battle enemies. But having so many objects in the same scene that can be easily created and destroyed requires good memory and CPU management, to avoid problems such as frame rate drops due to CPU spikes, out-of-memory issues, and memory leak issues due to inefficient memory usage. There is one programming pattern that works well in this scenario, which is called Object Pooling, and we are going to learn how to implement and use it to spawn our units.

In this chapter, we will create the configuration files for our units using the ScriptableObject class from Unity, which will have all the attributes we need to use a unit in our game. We are also going to see how to update the UI using a decoupled solution by learning how to implement and use the Message Queue pattern, which provides a great way for scripts or systems to communicate with each other without creating...