Unity Game Development For Beginners (Skillshare)

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Unity Game Development For Beginners (Skillshare)

Learn To Make Your First Video Game! This course aims to teach students with no experience how to create a PC Game! This class focuses on teaching students the basic principles of Unity & game development through hands-on tutorials. Using the free game engine Unity, students can learn how to make a fully functioning copy of the classic noughts & crosses game in under an hour.

By the end of the course students should have an understanding of the following concepts:

  • Unity & Visual Studio Installation
  • Navigating In Unity
  • Importing & running C# scripts
  • Steps Required For Game Creation
  • Importing Art Assets
  • Creating User Interfaces
  • How To Build/Export Your Game
  • Basic Game Design Principles

Is this beginner and kid-friendly?
This class is for students who are new to Unity and has no required knowledge, in regards to more experienced students I would suggest checking out my more in-depth courses on game development. The course has no adult themes and is suitable for all ages.

What You Will Need

  • 1-2 hours of free time (This is dependant on skill level and speed)
  • A modern PC / Mac capable of installing and running Unity (See specs here)
  • An internet connection to download Unity and Visual Studio

Create your own noughts & crosses video game!
If you followed through the tutorials you should have a working noughts & crosses game that you can alter and share with the community via a build file or a screenshot! This allows you to complete your game and showcase your work and creativity to lots of other students as well as reinforce the different aspects of game development taught in the course!

What To Submit
Try and submit a screenshot of your game and if possible a download link to a build of your game!
Help my game is broken and not like yours!
That's alright we have uploaded the Unity project which you can download below, this is the fully completed project available for you to experiment with and use to alter if you had issues during the course!

To use the project do the following:

  1. Download the Skillshare Course Project Files zip file
  2. Extract The File
  3. Open Unity Or Unity Hub
  4. Press The Open Button
  5. Navigate And Select The Extracted Folder
  6. Hit Open Project!

Note: If you get issues with version compatibility install Unity version 2019.2.11f1
How do I build my game?
If you need help building your game watch the video on building it, if you are still stuck try reading this article which features step by step explanations.

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