Setting up the Game

Moving the Player

Moving the Camera

Setting up the Play Area

Creating Collectibles

Detecting Collisions with Collectibles

Displaying Score and Text

Building the Game

Adding AI Navigation

Welcome to 3D Beginner: Roll-a-Ball Game! In this learning project, you’ll:  

Use Unity Editor and its built-in capabilities to set up a simple game environment

Write your own custom scripts to create the game functionality

Create a basic user interface to improve the game experience

Build your game, so other people can play it!

3D Beginner: Roll-a-Ball Game

Scripts as Behaviour Components

Variables and Functions

Conventions and Syntax

IF Statements

Loops

Scope and Access Modifiers

Awake and Start

Update and FixedUpdate

Vector Maths

Enabling and Disabling Components

Activating GameObjects

Translate and Rotate

Look At

Linear Interpolation

Destroy

GetButton and GetKey

GetAxis

OnMouseDown

GetComponent

DeltaTime

DataTypes

Classes

Instantiate

Arrays

Invoke

Enumerations

Switch Statements

Start MonoBehaviour Methods

Detecting Mouse Clicks

Time

Learn about programming for game development, from the very beginning with these easy to follow video tutorials.

Beginner Scripting

Recorded Video Session: Text Adventure Game Part 1

Recorded Video Session: Text Adventure Game Part 2

Dive into scripting, in this course we will cover the fundamentals of C#. 

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Set the Camera position

Write a CameraController script

Reference the Player GameObject

Unity_RollABall_3-3.mp4

Unity_RollABall_3-1.mp4

Unity_RollABall_3-2.mp4

In this third Roll-a-ball tutorial, you’ll:

Write a script to make the Camera follow the Player sphere with a fixed offset

Set_the_Camera_position-Transcript.txt

Write_a_CameraController_script-Transcript.txt

Reference_the_Player_GameObject-Transcript.txt

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject player;

    private Vector3 offset;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        offset = transform.position - player.transform.position;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void LateUpdate()
    {
        transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;
    }
}


Moving the Camera

1. Set the Camera position

2. Write a CameraController script

3. Reference the Player GameObject

Complete this tutorial