Adding and implementing collectable objects

Typically, in a game, the player will be able to collect power-ups to increase their effectiveness, or to replace depleted life or energy.

In this game, our player will collect food to boost his health. This stage will involve adding a collectable and making the player react with a suitable animation sequence.

Instantiating the lunchBox collectable in the game level

Our first collectable is already set up as a prefab in the project files, making it easy to drag and drop into our game level without having to add components and set variables:

1. In the Project panel, locate the PACKT_Prefabs folder.

2. Click to expand the Pickups subfolder and locate the lunchBox prefab.

3. Drag lunchBox into the Hierarchy panel to instantiate it.

4. Position the prefab and navigate within the Scene view until it is clearly visible:

   

Inspecting the lunchBox collectable's components

The lunchBox prefab is a game object with a few components attached. We will take a look and see how it...