Make Your First Video Game in 4 Weeks from Scratch with Unity 3D

Understanding the Basics of Unity

Create a basic scene inside Unity with primative game objects in various rotation, scale, and positi
- Create a basic scene inside Unity with primative game objects in various rotation, scale, and position.
- Create and position camera and lighting to adjust the look of the game.
- Add materials to objects to give them a fresh look!
- Try out the asset store and download new assets for your scene
Creating your first app and sharing it with the class
- Build a PC/Mac app or a Web app from the Build Settings menu
- Share your Weekly Projects for feedback
How to share your game using Dropbox (Unity web player)

- Class discussion: http://www.skillshare.com/Play-Make-Your-First-Video-Game-in-4-Weeks-from-Scratch/2085331358/1488119936/classroom/discussions/7477

- YouTube tutorial: video link

Understanding the Basics of PlayMaker

Create a scene with basic movements and interactions using PlayMaker:
Create a scene with basic movements and interactions using PlayMaker:

Here are a few elements you can add to your scene. You don't have to add them all but try to do as many of these as possible will help you get familiar with PlayMaker:
- Click on an object to rotate
- Press a key to toggle a color change for an object
- Make a sound when clicking on an object
- Move, rotate, and scale different objects in the scene
- Rotate camera once when the game starts, or rotate camera continuously during the game
- Press a key to toggle lighting on and off
Create a Scene and PlayMaker Interactions
Share your Weekly Projects for feedback

Building Control and Interactions

Create a Breakout style game:
Create a Breakout style game:
- Create control for the player object
- Create interactions and movements for the ball object
- Create reactions for block objects
- Adjust ball movement for walls
- Creating a roof and a floor which will control when game is restarted
- Add sound and effects to your game
Break Out!
Share your Weekly Projects for feedback

Putting It All Together

Follow tutorials to create major systems for this jumping gameCreate your own level and unlease you
- Follow tutorials to create major systems for this jumping game
- Create your own level and unlease your creativity with everything we've learned so far in this re-creation of Doodle Jump!
Doodle Jump!
Share your final project for feedback!

Additional Resources

Unity has a lot to offer for aspiring game developers, but at first glance it can look a bit overwhelming. We will go through the aspects of Unity related to our project one by one.

When watching the videos, I suggest setting the quality to HD and watch it in fullscreen mode, see example.

Updates:
- Here's a quick walk-through video for those of you who want a bit of help with the project this week - http://youtu.be/wC41xXmVltU
- If you can't finish the first project by Friday end of day, don't worry about it! The deadline is only so that I can talk about some of the projects before Office Hour on Monday, but feel free to take the class at your own pace. :)
Links and Tools:

Unity Basics:http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/UnityBasics.html

Screenshot and Screencast (video) - http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

File sharing: http://ge.tt/ or http://www.senduit.com/

p.s. for taking screenshots I use Skitch (desktop app:http://evernote.com/skitch/), and for creating screencasts I use Screenflick (paid desktop app: http://www.araelium.com/screenflick/)

Note:

Don't forget the next sets of videos are coming Monday! So get your projects started and try to finish by end of day Friday and we can talk about some of your projects during Office Hour on Monday as well. Make full use of the discussion forum (link) and groups (link) to connect with like-minded fellow students. You'll all be each other's assets on this game development journey. :)

Please also give me some feedback on the videos and the class in general (email me at: brandon@pepwuper.com). This class is for all of you and I'll do my best to customize the course for this group of amazing talents!
How to share your game using Dropbox (Unity web player)

- Class discussion: http://www.skillshare.com/Play-Make-Your-First-Video-Game-in-4-Weeks-from-Scratch/2085331358/1488119936/classroom/discussions/7477

- YouTube tutorial: video link
PlayMaker makes it possible to start creating interactions inside Unity without coding. We will go over the basic elements of PlayMaker and learn the concept of a Finite-State Machine (FSM)

Download PlayMaker Student Version Here:

http://hutonggames.com/students.php

(Please do NOT share this link with anyone. HutongGames has graciously created this version just for this class, so let's help keep this confidential.)

Links and Tools:
- PlayMaker Main Editor UI: https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W129
- PlayMaker Manual: https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/
- PlayMaker Forum: http://hutonggames.com/playmakerforum/index.php
- Breakout (Atari 2600):
  http://youtu.be/JRAPnuwnpRs
- PlayMaker Action Reference:
  https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W2
- iTween Actions:
  https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W544
- Unity Physics - Collision action matrix (scroll half-way down the page):
  http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/Physics.html
- Unity Rigidbody:
  http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/class-Rigidbody.html
- Unity Prefabs:
  http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/Prefabs.html
- Unity Parenting (lower half on this page):
  http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/class-Transform.html
- Unity Instantiating Prefabs (advanced topic):
  http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/InstantiatingPrefabs.html
A Doodle Jump style game with my favorite game character: (Sonic Jump!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQyFunQyo0

ForceMode: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/ForceMode.html

PlayerPrefs: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefs.html

PlayerPrefs (PlayMaker): https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W545

Don't Destroy On Load (PlayMaker Action): https://hutonggames.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W314

Debugging with PlayMaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzJ63pZ8NOY

Jack E

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