Unity 6 mobile combat game development
Choose abilities that change how your character fights.
I was the sole Unity/C# developer for the version of Frosty Brawler Go! reviewed here. I designed and built the game’s code: a journey of 60 in-game days, automatic turn-based battles, and a choice of three abilities at each level-up. These abilities add attacks, change existing attacks or improve the character’s combat stats.
My role and the team’s contribution
I was responsible for Unity/C# programming. The team supplied art, audio and game-design input.
My responsibility
I built the journey, battles, abilities, attacks, status effects, enemies and interface behavior. I also built a reusable system that coordinates character animation with gameplay, connected the game’s services, updated the code during development and configured Android builds.
Team contribution
The team supplied the visuals, audio and game-design input. I programmed their work into the Unity game and maintained the code as it developed.
How the journey progresses
Journey events, automatic battles and ability choices all affect the same character. As the player advances, their choices change the character’s attacks, effects and stats.
Journey
Each day brings a story message, a stat change, experience, healing or a battle. The journey history records the result of each event.
Battle
Player and enemy attack queues execute in controlled turns. Damage, blocking states, periodic effects, death and revive outcomes complete before the journey continues.
Ability choice
At each level-up, the player chooses from three abilities. The available choices can add an attack, change a compatible sword attack or improve a combat stat for the current journey.
Build
The new attack, effect or stat change becomes part of the character’s current abilities. It changes how they fight as the journey gets harder.
How abilities work together
The game starts from reusable ability templates. Supported upgrades change copies of those templates for the current journey, and the battle system carries out their actions in order.
Choose an ability
The game selects three options from ability definitions stored in Unity ScriptableObjects.
Apply the change
The supported abilities add an attack, add an effect to a compatible sword attack or change a character stat.
Current journey
The game creates copies of attack and effect templates that can change during the current journey.
Battle result
Turns resolve attacks, chance, status duration, blocking and cleanup in a predictable order.
Three ways an ability changes the character
Add an attack
Fire and thunderstorm upgrades add attacks after the attacks the character already has.
Modify the weapon
Critical, poison and freeze upgrades add their effects to compatible sword attacks the character already has.
Change the run
Health, maximum health, attack and defence upgrades feed the same parameter model used by journey events and enemy scaling.
Why abilities use reusable code
Each ability makes a specific change: it adds an attack, attaches a compatible effect or changes a stat. The shared battle code still manages timing, targets and the end of each action. This makes it easier to add abilities and understand how they work together.
Supporting game systems
Journey events, battles and player progress track what happened and what comes next. A separate reusable system handles inventory and saved data.
Journey events
The audited build sequences 21 parameter events, 13 battles, 13 experience events, 11 narrative messages and two healing events into one journey.
Combat systems
Player and enemy coroutines coordinate attack queues, targets, damage, active effects and cleanup across five enemy archetypes with day-based scaling.
Inventory & saves
A separate inventory module supports fixed, dynamic and unlimited containers, stacking and sorting, plus local JSON saves with backup and integrity checks. Item data includes rarity and effect definitions; equipment bonuses are not wired into the live combat loop.
Mobile services
Zenject composition, DOTween sequences, FMOD audio routing, Firebase and Meta analytics hooks, AdMob rewarded flows and Android build settings connect the gameplay to a testable mobile product.
Project code and content
These counts cover custom code under Assets/Scripts in the July 2025 project version reviewed here. They describe code and configured content, and do not measure player numbers or commercial results.
Ability data
ScriptableObject definitions create attack, effect and parameter instances for each run, so abilities can safely mutate the active build without rewriting shared source assets.
Custom animation controls
I built a reusable unit-animation orchestration layer on top of Unity Animator. Per-character ScriptableObject profiles map shared states to character-specific clips and configurable speed, start offset, layer, impact timing and transition overlap. Cross-fades, clip sequences, curve-based position interpolation and callbacks coordinate movement, attacks, hits and deaths. The shared controller uses 10 profiles across 14 character visuals in the audited snapshot.
Difficulty curve
Player stats and abilities accumulate through events and level-ups, while enemy health and attack scale by elapsed day; encounter selection prefers unused eligible enemy types and falls back when that pool is exhausted.
Startup & testing
Boot scenes and dependency injection organize startup, while pooled damage text reduces repeated allocations. The repository includes ten Unity editor-test methods for inventory behavior; their current pass status was not independently verified.
The 1:18 public gameplay video shows the day route, narrative and parameter events, battles resolving after the Battle prompt, a three-choice skill draft, Freezing added to the weapon and triggering in combat, plus defeat and the revive decision.
Watch on YouTubeGameplay video and thumbnail were published by Artem Shkabura on his public YouTube channel on May 27, 2025.
Completed work
This case documents my Unity/C# implementation, the inspected July 2025 project snapshot and publicly visible gameplay. Repository counts are scoped to Assets/Scripts in that snapshot. It does not claim authorship of the art, audio or game design, a store release, current availability, audience size, retention, revenue or live campaign results. Experimental ECA and reflection layers are excluded from the delivery claims above.
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