Plants vs Zombies in Unity with FlowCanvas

Written by PET on 04.July.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

In order to improve my programming & my logic skills I decided to do a really small clone of Plants vs. Zombies in Unity using FlowCanvas. 

I first found out about a tutorial like this on “noobtuts”. He uses actually code but I decided to try to look at the code and try to make that code using FlowCanvas. That particular Plants vs. Zombies tutorial is “PRO” and requires a subscription, but it was enough to inspire me and make my own tasks.

In this written article I will try to show screenshots and briefly try to explain what I wanted to accomplish, I do however recommend you to watch the YouTube video below because I will go into more details about the challenges I encountered.

Those are the mechanics I wanted to implement:

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Namzuc DevLog #01

Written by PET on 01.April.2017. Posted in Tutorials, Unity

Back in 2014 I started to design a game that mixed up elements from boardgames with roguelike games. I was a bit annoyed that I couldn’t find a programmer to make a small prototype, however at the beginning of 2016 I found out an Unity plugin called FlowCanvas.

For those who don’t know FlowCanvas is a “visual coding tool” … meaning that you code with visual elements. You still need to know programming, but for people like me this is an incredible tool. I somehow find programming a bit to slow and boring. Please note that FlowCanvas is different than Playmaker! PlayMaker is a State Machine where you can do various actions on each state. With FlowCanvas you really need to know what you want to do and how you do it!

So I decided to pickup FlowCanvas and give it a go:

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