Unity Floating Text / Damage Popup Implementation Guide

Dusk Sharp
3 min readAug 12, 2020
Example of a game using damage popups during battle.

If you have ever played a game before, you are likely familiar with the concept of “floating text” or damage popups. A lot, and I mean a lot of games have this UI feature, and for beginner game developers it is a great polish feature that also provides information to the player.

And you can use text popups for more than just representing damage dealt or received. Level…

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