RAMMING SPEED! Creating An Aggressive Enemy Ship

For the creation of an “aggressive” enemy, let’s add a kamikaze ship that rams the player if you get too close! Watch out, they’re dangerous!

Ramming Speed: The rate of motion at which a Ram rams

Today’s Objective: Create an aggressive enemy type that attempts to turn and ram the player if they get too close.

In the Enemy Movement script, I add these variables to control the ram:

Ram variables in the Enemy Movement script

In the Update method, after the normal movement code, if the enemy can ram and it is not destroyed yet, check for the chance to ram the player:

Then create the function for checking for a valid ram chance — “CheckForRamChance()”:

Finally, create the function that will actually do the ramming — “RamInPlayersDirection()”:

The result:

An aggressive enemy that rams the player!