243
Lectures
37
Hours

Welcome to Mobile RTS Game in Unity 2D - From Scratch to App Store! This comprehensive course guides you through the entire process of creating, testing, and publishing a real-time strategy (RTS) game for mobile using Unity 2D. Starting from scratch, we’ll build a complete game packed with practical features and polish it for release on both iOS and Android platforms.

What You'll Learn:

  • Setting Up Your Game Environment: Start by downloading free assets to create an immersive game world using tilemaps, animated tiles, and custom character designs.

  • Character Creation and Animation: Bring your game to life by animating unique units such as builders and warriors, each with their own actions and abilities.

  • Core Game Management: Build a centralized Game Manager to control essential gameplay functions, including unit selection, movement, and resource management.

  • Interactive Action Bar: Design a dynamic Action Bar UI where units have unique actions like building structures (for builders) or choosing defensive/aggressive stances (for warriors).

  • Building and Placement Mechanics: Develop a placement and building system with visual feedback for available spots. The builder unit will gather resources like wood and gold to construct towers, keeps, and train units.

  • Resource Collection and Economy: Design a resource system where builders can mine gold and chop wood, keeping your economy flowing as you defend against waves of enemies.

  • Pathfinding with A* Algorithm: Implement your own A* pathfinding to enable smooth, obstacle-free navigation across the map.

  • Enemy Waves and Combat System: Develop enemy types like goblins and demolishers, and create a spawn manager for enemy waves, making each battle more challenging.

  • Audio and Visual Effects: Build an Audio Manager to add immersive sound effects, including footsteps, attacks, and resource gathering. Use floating text to display damage, resource gains, and attack announcements.

  • Announcements and Events: Implement custom announcements to alert players to incoming waves or critical events in the game.

  • Victory and Defeat Conditions: Define game-winning and losing scenarios, challenging players to defend their King unit against all enemy waves.

  • Cross-Platform Building and Testing: Learn how to build and test your game on both iOS and Android devices to ensure smooth performance and a great player experience.

  • Publishing on the App Store and Google Play: We’ll cover all the steps needed to publish your game, including filling in required information, setting up a store page, creating preview videos, and adding a terms and policy page.

This course is highly practical and code-focused. Each feature is built from scratch—no third-party libraries—using only free, open-licensed assets. It’s designed for all skill levels, from beginners eager to learn Unity to experienced developers aiming to master mobile RTS game development.

Requirements

  • Unity Fundamentals

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Setup the Map

  • 3

    Characters & Animations

  • 4

    Game Manager & Inputs

  • 5

    Unit Selection & Movement

  • 6

    Clicking Effect

  • 7

    Action Bar UI

  • 8

    Actions

    • Build Tower Action

    • Register actions

    • Pass image to button

    • Hook function to button
  • 9

    Placement Process

  • 10

    Highlight Build Area

    • Store highlight tiles

    • Set tile color

    • Offset the position

    • Overlay tilemap

    • Clear Highlights

    • Display blocked tiles

    • Unreachable tilemaps

    • Check for blocked gameobjects
  • 11

    Confirmation Flow

    • Confirmation Bar

    • Import new font

    • Resource requirements display

    • Show confirmation bar

    • Setup Hooks

    • Cancel build placement

    • Try finalize placement

    • Finalize placement process

    • Try deduct resources

    • Display required resources
  • 12

    Building Process

    • Start building process

    • Move to structure

    • Structure unit prefab

    • Building process update

    • Proximity Detection

    • Task and State

    • Set unit target

    • Reset worker state

    • Add and remove worker from building process

    • Reassign worker to building

    • Check for construction

    • Building animation

    • Finish Construction

    • Construction Effect

    • Display click build effect
  • 13

    Pathfinding

    • Pathfiding start

    • Tilemap Manager

    • Initialize Node Grid

    • Check if tile is walkable

    • Keep center position separate

    • Find Node
  • 14

    Pathfinding - A* Algorithm

    • Manhattan Distance

    • A* Theory

    • Open and Close List

    • Get all neighbors

    • Complete Closed List

    • Retrace path

    • Get path with click

    • Follow the path
  • 15

    Pathfinding - Improvements

    • Check for the same end node

    • Fix abrupt movement

    • Reset Nodes

    • Smoothing Speed

    • Can walk at building tile

    • Update Node Walkability

    • Move to closest node

    • Turn to new position
  • 16

    Camera Setup

    • Camera Controller

    • Lock Camera
  • 17

    Enemies

    • Enemy Unit

    • Change Layers

    • Keep units in lists

    • Detect Foe

    • Detection check rate
  • 18

    Enemy Statemachine

    • Enemy state machine

    • Try attack target

    • Stop movement

    • Attack Triggers

    • Attack commitment time

    • Delay damage
  • 19

    Damage Text Popups

    • Textpopup prefab

    • Spawn text popup

    • Floating text curves

    • Playing with anim curves

    • Randomize X Direction

    • Floating text size update
  • 20

    Dead Scenario

    • Handle dead scenario

    • Destroy unit and cleanup

    • Dead Animation

    • Unregister unit correctly

    • Stop attacking when unit is dead

    • Damage flash effect

    • Multiple damage flash effect
  • 21

    Player Soldier AI

    • Handle click on enemy, and soldier

    • React to attack task

    • Simple soldier AI

    • Auto Engage in fight

    • Retreat from battle
  • 22

    Attack Stances

    • Unit stances

    • Expose stance to unit

    • Apply stances to soldier

    • Destination source

    • Fix issue with none task

    • Stop moving in defensive stance

    • Fix Ai Pawn and Attack Range
  • 23

    Focus Stance in UI

    • Focus action

    • Focus action on click

    • Focus action initialy

    • Fix flash coroutine

    • Fix player attack time
  • 24

    Separation Algorithm

    • Apply separation start

    • Separation Vector

    • Fix turn to target and action bar

    • Fix attack ranges
  • 25

    Tower & Projectiles

    • Spawn Projectile

    • Tower detects enemy

    • Move and rotate projectile

    • Deal damage with Projectile

    • Apply cooldowns to tower attack

    • Handle tower dead

    • Tower attack optimization
  • 26

    Ranged Units

    • Ranger Unit

    • Shoot arrows

    • Enemy ranger unit

    • Throw dynamites

    • Dynamite rotation and unit prefabs
  • 27

    Wood Collection - Part 1

    • Trees and Wood Storage

    • Detect click on tree

    • Display chop icon

    • Set task to chop tree

    • Unoccupy tree

    • Release tree after dead

    • Detect assigned tree

    • Chopping animation

    • Collect Wood
  • 28

    Wood Return - Part 2

    • Tree Hit Animation

    • Display Wood Resource

    • Holding Resource Animation

    • Find closest wood storage

    • Return lumber

    • Go back to chopping

    • Handle click on wood storage

    • Increase wood globaly

    • Add Resource Display UI

    • Update Resources in UI
  • 29

    Gold Minning

    • Keep and Gold Mine

    • Handle Clicks on Gold Mine

    • Refactor try get resource

    • Handle minning task

    • Try to enter mine

    • Release the worker

    • Store gold

    • Refactor return resources

    • Return gold when clicking on gold storage

    • Refactor build click checks

    • Display gold mine as active
  • 30

    Map Design

    • Work on new map

    • Map Decoration

    • Unbuildable tilemap
  • 31

    Train New Units

    • Train Unit Actions

    • Setup training hooks

    • Train Unit

    • Train units improvements
  • 32

    Enemy Spawner

    • King Unit

    • Enemy spawner config

    • Startup spawner

    • Core Spawn Functionality

    • Spawn Enemies

    • Attack king unit
  • 33

    Audio

    • Audio Manager Start

    • Audio Setting

    • Audio Source

    • Play sound beginnings

    • Get Audio Source

    • Play Attack Sound

    • Return source to pool

    • Play interaction sound

    • More Interaction Sounds

    • Archer and Tower Attack Sounds

    • Enemy Attack Sounds

    • Termination sound

    • Chopping sound

    • Footstep sound

    • Placement and Build Sound

    • Castle Interaction Sound

    • Background theme music
  • 34

    Final Game Improvements

    • Menu Scene

    • Menu scene controls

    • Stop the game - game over

    • Game over layout

    • Game over script

    • Handle restart with errors

    • Fix game restart

    • Fix issues with building targeting

    • Ui button clicks

    • Final Test
  • 35

    Preview Page

    • Init Preview Web Page

    • Deploy preview page to vercel

    • Customizing the preview page

    • Setup build details
  • 36

    IOS - Deployment

    • Setup game on Apple Store

    • Prepare the ios build

    • Balancing the game

    • Distribute the IOS Build

    • Submit your game (ios)
  • 37

    Android - Deployment

    • Create Google Play App

    • Fill up the app listing

    • Building the game

    • Balancing the game (android)

    • Test the game again

    • Providing game information
  • 38

    Wrap Up!

    • Wrap up

Instructor(s)

Software Engineer

Filip Jerga

My name is Filip Jerga and I am an experienced software engineer and freelance developer. I have a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and several years of experience working on a wide range of technologies and projects from C++ development for ultrasound devices to modern mobile and web applications in React and Angular. Throughout my career, I have acquired advanced technical knowledge and the ability to explain programming topics clearly and in detail to a broad audience. I invite you to take my course, where I have put a lot of effort to explain web and software engineering concepts in a detailed, hands-on and understandable way.

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