Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 - Third Edition

Health Points and Health bar

Now that we have successfully created a collectable coin and developed a counting system for it, we can take a look at other types of collectables that are commonly used in video games. 

The first one is the Health Point; it is very common to see this type of collectable in multiple game genres and it allows us to have a health system–that way, we can get hit a few times before dying.

Let's start by downloading Health.unitypackage and importing it into your project. Now drag the Health prefab into the Hierarchy view so that we can take a look at it. If we press Play, we can see that it is a simple heart sprite that bounces up and down.

At this moment, nothing will happen if the character touches the heart, so ...