Unity 2022 by Example

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Completing the Collection Game

In Chapter 2, you were introduced to level design, adding different 2D assets, using assets with Tilemap to create a game environment, and creating scripts using the C# language and the Visual Studio (VS) IDE to add movement to the player character.

With the player moving around the environment, we’ll want a way to follow them visually around the level. This chapter will use Unity’s camera system called Cinemachine (CM) – a powerful camera control feature that makes polished camera movement easy to add and set up.

We’ll finish the chapter with an introduction to adding a user interface (UI). You’ll learn how to add text to the screen to track gameplay progress with a timer and score. We’ll use Unity’s UI system, ...