Week 3 | Session 1 - Move Player within Boundaries - April 6, 2020

Week 3 | Session 2 - Launch a Projectile Prefab - April 7, 2020

Week 3 | Session 3 - Random Animal Selection - April 8, 2020

Week 3 | Session 4 - Spawn Animals at Intervals - April 9, 2020

Week 3 | Session 5 - New Project with Primitives - April 10, 2020

You will begin this live session by creating a new project for your second Prototype and getting basic player movement working. You will first choose which character you would like, which types of animals you would like to interact with, and which food you would like to feed those animals. You will give the player basic side-to-side movement just like you did in Prototype 1, but then you will use if-then statements to keep the Player in bounds. 

CwCLive-W3_S1-starter_file.zip

Overview

Before you Begin

Recorded Live Session - 6th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 6th April - 5pm PST

Next Steps

Our animal prefabs walk across the screen and get destroyed out of bounds, but they don’t actually appear in the game unless we drag them in! In this live session, we will allow the animals to spawn on their own, in a random location at the top of the screen. In order to do so, we will create a new object and a new script to manage the entire spawning process. 

CwCLive-W3_S3-starter_file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 8th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 8th April - 5pm PST

Our game is coming along nicely, but there are are some critical things we must add before it’s finished. First off, instead of pressing S to spawn the animals, we will spawn them on a timer so that they appear every few seconds. Next we will add colliders to all of our prefabs and make it so launching a projectile into an animal will destroy it. Finally, we will display a “Game Over” message if any animals make it past the player. 

CwCLive-W3_S4-starter_file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 9th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 9th April - 5pm PST

Share your Modified Challenge or Prototype

You will create and set up the project that will soon transform into your very own Personal Project. For now, you will use “primitive” shapes (such as spheres, cubes, and planes) as placeholders for your objects so that you can add functionality as efficiently as possible without getting bogged down by graphics. To make it clear which object is which, you will also give each object a unique colored material. 

CwCLive-W3_S4-complete.zip

Recorded Live Session - 10th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 10th April - 5pm PST

Share your Project with Primitives

This week, you will program a top-down game with the objective of throwing food to hungry animals - who are stampeding towards you - before they can run past you. In order to do this, you will become much more familiar with some of the most important programming and Unity concepts, including if-then statements, random value generation, arrays, collision detection, prefabs, and instantiation. In completing this week's sessions, you will learn how to program a basic game with the ability to launch projectiles and maneuver the player to keep the game alive. 

Week 3: Basic Gameplay | Apr 6 - Apr 10

Week 1 | Session 1 - Welcome to the Course - Mar 23, 2020

Week 1 | Session 2 - Platformer Microgame - Mar 24, 2020

Week 1 | Session 3 - Karting Microgame - Mar 25, 2020

Week 1 | Session 4 - Karting Microgame Part 2 - Mar 26, 2020

Week 1 | Session 5 - Karting Microgame Part 3 - Mar 27, 2020

Week 2 | Session 1 - Set up your Project - Mar 30, 2020

Week 2 | Session 2 - Make the Vehicle Move - Mar 31, 2020

Week 2 | Session 3 - Make the Camera Follow - Apr 1, 2020

Week 2 | Session 4 - Player Control - Apr 2, 2020

Week 2 | Session 5 - Project Design Doc - Apr 3, 2020

Week 4 | Session 1 - Set Up Basic Gameplay - April 13, 2020

Week 4 | Session 2 - Control the Background - April 14, 2020

Week 4 | Session 3 - Animate the Character - April 15, 2020

Week 4 | Session 4 - Add Particles and Sound - April 16, 2020

Week 4 | Session 5 - Player Control - April 17, 2020

Week 5 | Session 1 - Move and Orbit the Player - April 20, 2020

Week 5 | Session 2 - Enemies Follow the Player - April 21, 2020

Week 5 | Session 3 - Powerup and Countdown - April 22, 2020

Week 5 | Session 4 - For-Loops for Waves - April 23, 2020

Week 5 | Session 5 - Basic Gameplay - April 24, 2020

Week 6 | Session 1 - Click the Flying Objects - April 27, 2020

Week 6 | Session 2 - Keeping Score - April 28, 2020

Week 6 | Session 3 - Game Over - April 29, 2020

Week 6 | Session 4 - Title Screen - April 30, 2020

Week 6 | Session 5 - Swap Out Your Assets - May 1, 2020

Week 7 | Session 1 - Optimization and QA - May 4, 2020

Week 7 | Session 2 - Research and Troubleshooting - May 5, 2020

Week 7 | Session 3 - Topic Top Picks - May 6, 2020

Week 7 | Session 4 - Ask us Anything! - May 7, 2020

Week 7 | Session 5 - Personal Project Playathon - May 8, 2020

In this first week of live learning sessions, you will get up and running with Unity. First we'll make sure you have everything installed and working correctly, but then we'll jump into creating and modding your own micro-games. 

Week 1: Getting Started | Mar 23 - Mar 27

CwCLive-W2_S4-complete.zip

Recorded Live Session - 3rd April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 3rd April - 5pm PST

Share your Project Design Document

This week, you will program a car moving side-to-side on a floating road, trying to avoid (or hit) obstacles in the way. In addition to becoming more familiar with the Unity editor and workflow, you will learn how to create new C# scripts and do some simple programming. By the end of the Unit, you will be able to call basic functions, then declare and tweak new variables to modify the results of those functions. 

Week 2: Player Control | Mar 30 - Apr 3

CwCLive-W4_S1-starter_file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 13th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 13th April - 5pm PST

CwCLive-W4_S3-starter_file.zip

Join us in the Zoom Webinar

During this week, you will program a fast-paced endless side-scrolling runner game where the player needs to time jumps over oncoming obstacles to avoid crashing. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to add music and sound effects, completely transforming the experience of your projects. You will also learn how to create dynamic endless repeating backgrounds, which are critical for any side-scrolling games. Finally, you will learn to incorporate particle effects like splatters and explosions, which make your games so much more satisfying to play.  

Week 4: Sound & Effects | Apr 13 - Apr 17

CwCLive-W5_S3-starter-file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 22nd April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 22nd April - 5pm PST

CwCLive-W5_S4-starter-file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 23rd April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 23rd April - 5pm PST

This week, you will program an arcade-style Sumo battle with the objective of knocking increasingly difficult waves of enemies off of a floating island, using power ups to help defeat them. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement new gameplay mechanics into your projects, which are new rules or systems that make the game more interesting to play. On one hand, you will learn to program a powerup, which give the player a temporary advantage. On the other hand, you will learn to program increasingly difficult enemy waves, which make survival more challenging for the player. A good balance of powerups and increasing difficulty make for a much more interesting gameplay experience.  

Week 5: Gameplay Mechanics | Apr 20 - 24

CwCLive-W6_S2-starter_file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 28th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 28th April - 5pm PST

CwCLive-Course-Library.zip

CwCL-AM-FeedThePeople-W6.zip

CwCL-PM-FencetasticGoat-W6.zip

CwCLive-W6_S4-complete.zip

Recorded Live Session - 1st May - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 1st May - 5pm PST

Share your Project

This week, you will program a game to test the player’s reflexes, where the goal is to click and destroy objects randomly tossed in the air before they can fall off the screen. In creating this prototype, you will learn how to implement a User Interface - or UI - into your projects. You will add a title screen with a difficulty select menu that will control how challenging the gameplay is, you will add a score display that will track how many points the player has earned, and you will add a Game Over screen, which will allow the player to restart and try again. In learning these skills, you will be able to create a fully “playable” experience that the user can enjoy from start to finish without having to restart the application to try it again. 

Week 6: User Interface | Apr 27 - May 1

Recorded Live Session - 5th May - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 5th May - 5pm PST

Recorded Live Session - 8th May - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 8th May - 5pm PST

In this final week, you will prepare to continue developing your Unity and C# skills independently, including learning how to complete your personal project and how to prepare for the Unity Certified User: Programming exam, which you can take through your school program.

Week 7: Next Steps | May 4 - May 8

This version of Create with Code Live was held March - May 2020. Please check in March 2021 for more information on the next iteration. 

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Create with Code Live - Spring 2020

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CwCLive-W3_S2-starter_file.zip

Recorded Live Session - 7th April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 7th April - 5pm PST

CWC_Morn_Part2_Reduced.mp4

CWC_EVE_PART2_Reduced.mp4

In this live session, you will allow the player to launch the projectile through the scene. First you will write a new script to send the projectile forwards. Next you will store the projectile along with all of its scripts and properties using an important new concept in Unity called Prefabs. The player will be able to launch the projectile prefab with a tap of the spacebar. Finally, you will add boundaries to the scene, removing any objects that leave the screen.  

This is the same content covered in Lesson 2.2 in the independent Create with Code Course. 

The player will be able to press the Spacebar and launch a projectile prefab into the scene, which destroys itself when it leaves the game’s boundaries. The animals will also be removed from the scene when they leave the game boundaries. 

Transform a game object into a prefab that can be used as a template

Instantiate Prefabs to spawn them into the scene

Override Prefabs to update and save their characteristics

Get user input with GetKey and KeyCode to test for specific keyboard presses

Apply components to multiple objects at once to work as efficiently as possible

To participate in this session and follow along, you need:

If you have followed along with us this week and have your own project ready, you are good to go!

You can also download the instructor's up-to-date project and import it (If you don't know how to import a project, you can read how here)

If this is your first Create with Code live learning session, you can catch up by:

Following along with the recordings of our previous live learning sessions

Completing the same lessons in the independent Create with Code Course

*Note - it is not necessary for you to catch up, but it is recommended for an ideal learning experience.

If you missed this live session, you can catch up with the video below:   

If you were not able to finish the session along with the instructors, you can catch up by:

Re-watching this recorded session when it is posted in Step 3 above at 3am PT (10am UCT) the morning after this session's date

Picking up where you left off in Lesson 2.2 of the independent Create with Code Course

Create a new projectile prefab and give the player the option to launch different projectiles with different keys

If you want to go ahead and preview what we'll be covering in the next session, you can give it a try in Lesson 2.3 of the independent Create with Code Course. 

Week 3 | Session 2 - Launch a Projectile Prefab - April 7, 2020

1. Overview

2. Before you Begin

3. Recorded Live Session - 7th April - 9am PST

4. Recorded Live Session - 7th April - 5pm PST

5. Next Steps

Complete this tutorial