Unity 3D Game Development by Example

Slash and burn!

If you want to finish a game, you need to cut the complexity and the features. Get out your red pen and/or machete, and follow along:

1. Scrap the sets and the best-of-five match structure.
2. Kibosh the teams.
3. Jettison the multiple players.
4. Ditch the net.
5. Nix the referee and the spectators.

   What do we have? Just a person with a ball, looking kind of lonely. Hmm. That person might be a little tricky to model, texture, rig, and animate. Let's keep slashing.

6. Next, trash the player.

Now where are we? We have a ball, floating in midair; a ball that can't hit the floor. So, we need something simple to hit the ball with. A human character is too complicated, so let's just say it's a surface. We'll have some kind of thing that we can bounce ...