Bullet Hell Tutorial (Unity 2D): Finished Project Files

The complete, ready-to-run Unity project from my bullet hell tutorial. Open it, hit Play, and study a working system you can drop into your own shmup.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN / WHAT'S INSIDE

• Radial bullet rings
• Spinning spiral patterns
• Player-targeted fan shots
• Micro-hitboxes (the classic bullet hell "tiny core" feel)
• Object pooling for hundreds of bullets with no slowdown
• Hit effects and a simple boss controller

SCRIPTS INCLUDED

• Bullet
• BulletHellEmitter
• BulletPool
• HitEffect
• BossController

Prefer to browse the code first? Every script is also on GitHub Gist:

• Bullet: https://gist.github.com/elianmedina/47376fc0d4eb0c40bd2259448de8d963
• BulletHellEmitter: https://gist.github.com/elianmedina/c5d468ae63753f6db4ff72a7b5430275
• BulletPool: https://gist.github.com/elianmedina/f4f9be1e06a8be82fc179225143209a6
• HitEffect: https://gist.github.com/elianmedina/3196c3efcd427a919f398c6d49e303f2
• BossController: https://gist.github.com/elianmedina/48707f46f664fd833c66d683c0dfd9ec

REQUIREMENTS

• Unity 6 or newer
• Pixel art import settings: Filter Mode: Point, Compression: None

ART USED All bullets and impact effects come from my free Warped Shooting FX pack: https://ansimuz.itch.io/warped-shooting-fx

Want ships, enemies, backgrounds and 1500+ more sci-fi sprites in the same style? Check the full Warped Collection: https://ansimuz.itch.io/warped-collection

LICENSE Free to use and modify in personal and commercial projects. 

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Made by Ansimuz — 15+ years creating 16-bit pixel art for indie developers.

Tags: unity, bullet-hell, shmup, tutorial, source-code, pixel-art, 16-bit, sci-fi