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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Overview

Before you begin

Create a new Unity project

Create a new Scene

Create a primitive plane

Scale the Ground Plane

Create a Player GameObject

Adjust the default lighting

Add colors with Materials

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Welcome to Roll-a-ball! In this learning project, you’ll:

Create_a_new_Unity_project-Transcript.txt

Create_a_new_Scene-Transcript.txt

Create_a_primitive_plane-Transcript.txt

Scale_the_Ground_Plane-Transcript.txt

Create_a_Player_GameObject-Transcript.txt

Adjust_the_default_lighting-Transcript.txt

Add_colors_with_Materials-Transcript.txt

Unit 2 - Program a basic game

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

Create and position some basic objects for your game

Configure the lighting and game background

You don’t need any previous experience with Unity to complete this learning project, but you do need to install the latest LTS (long term support) version of Unity. This is currently Unity 2020.3 LTS. 

This learning experience assumes that you are already familiar with the Unity Editor. If you’re new to Unity, the Unity Essentials learning pathway has been designed to help you get set up and ready to create in the Unity Editor. 

Setting up the Game

1. Overview

2. Before you begin

3. Create a new Unity project

4. Create a new Scene

5. Create a primitive plane

6. Scale the Ground Plane

7. Create a Player GameObject

8. Adjust the default lighting

9. Add colors with Materials

Complete this tutorial