Unity 3D Asteroids

A simple Asteroids game clone in 3D. Stuck on a 2D plane. So 2.5D?

Learning & Experimenting with Unity. Trying to determine best practices.

Design Choices

• Architecture/Frameworks: God Objects, MVC, IoC+DI, Messaging, Events, ...
• Software Patterns: OOP, Composition, Singletons, Object Pooling, Observer, ...
• Game Programming Patterns
• Composition vs. OOP : Interfaces + Inheritance vs. Object Composition via Components
• MonoBehaviour + Extensions
• Serialization
• Idioms: One vs. Many
• Events: C# Delegate Events vs. UnityEvents
• Coroutines
• Optimizations

Workflow Choices

• Overall process: The clubs.
• Now choose a club...
• You have chosen Cowboy coding.
• May I suggest a Methodology?
• Prefab use & referencing (editor vs. code)
• Quick Prototyping vs. Robustness
• Scene/Asset structure
• Profiling/Testing/Debugging
• IDE choice (Visual Studio 2015 Community)
• Source code management(Git + GitHub + GitHub VS2015 Extension)
• Git: Commit, Sync, Push/Pull, Fork, Branch(Merge/Rebase), Revert
• GitHub: Repositories, Issues, Wiki, Markdown, Collaboration
• Blender Exporting

Unity Quirks

• Editor/Customization
• Interface
• Hacks/Tricks

Check the Wiki for articles, links and discussions

• Interesting things learned about Unity
• Software Engineering lessons learned
• Game design & development lessons learned

Check Issues for interesting issues encountered

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