Game Based Learning - Unity
[UNITY]
Full Course
Class Description:
Interested in designing games? Looking to learn how to use a versatile game engine? If so, then this is the course for you! Students will learn the basics of game development with Unity, covering everything from designing levels and painting terrain to programming movement and working with interactions between physics objects. While this course assumes no prior experience with Unity or programming for a game engine at all, we recommend that students have some experience working with code - or a thorough willingness to learn - coming into the class.
Prerequisites:
Ages 13 to 16, [CORE 4a] or Instructor Approval
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Syllabus
Introduction to Unity - Move, Rotate, Scale, and primitive objects!
We'll be going over getting started with Unity - ensuring everything is set up and starting to learn a bit about creating things in the editor!
Rigidbodies, Movement, and
This lesson focuses mostly on creating primitive objects in Unity, and beginning to touch on adding movement and physics interactions to our games. We'll also learn a bit about graphics, creating some basic materials for our objects!
Collisions and Pickups
Now that we have a basic player, it's time for us to give that player something to do! We'll be talking about how to add pick-ups into our game, and how to check if the player is touching them.
UI and Scoring
Today, we'll be going over the User Interface menu - discussing how to show the player a score and other information with heads-up displays!
Roll-A-Ball Review - Prefabs and Materials, Part 2
Today's lesson focuses on how we can create pre-fabricated models (To make it easier to copy complicated objects) - and how we can randomly spawn those objects in! We'll also be taking a bit of time to talk more about materials and shading, expanding on what we learned with our first project.
The Terrain Tool
With our first game finishing up, it's time to talk about how to make MUCH larger areas, ones that feel natural (and not just full of primitive shapes!) Luckily for us, the terrain tool is just what we need!
Particle Systems and Documentation
For our last lecture before final project time, we'll be going over particle systems, and we'll finish up the day by discussing the Unity Documentation - the ideal resource for anyone looking into furthering their Unity knowledge!
Project Work Time
The last parts of the course are determined based on the sorts of games that the students intend to create - a student who wants to make a platformer will need a very different set of skills from one who wants to make a first-person shooter, after all!
Project Work Time
Building your Project into an Executable
Finally, today, we'll discuss Building Our Projects - creating a version of our final projects that can be shared with friends and family, and accessed even by those who have never seen or downloaded the program!