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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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. 

Create with Code Live - Spring 2020

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Overview

Before you Begin

Recorded Live Session - 21st April - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 21st April - 5pm PST

Next Steps

CWC_Morn_Part2_Reduced.mp4

CWC_Eve_Part2_Reduced.mp4

The player can roll around to its heart’s content… but it has no purpose. In this live session, we fill that purpose by creating an enemy to challenge the player! First we will give the enemy a texture of your choice, then give it the ability to bounce the player away... potentially knocking them off the cliff. Lastly, we will let the enemy chase the player around the island and spawn in random positions. 

CwCLive-W5_S2-starter-file.zip

This is the same content covered in Lesson 4.2 in the independent Create with Code Course. 

A textured and spherical enemy will spawn on the island at start, in a random location determined by a custom function. It will chase the player around the island, bouncing them off the edge if they get too close.    

Apply Physics Materials to make game objects bouncy

Normalize vectors to point the enemy in the direction of the player

Randomly spawn with Random.Range on two axes

Write more advanced custom functions and variables to make your code clean and professional

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 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 4.2 of the independent Create with Code Course

Experiment with new features (after making a backup)

Program a bit of Artificial Intelligence so that enemies attempt to stop when they’re near an edge 

Add a new more difficult type of enemy and randomly select which enemy is spawned

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 4.3 of the independent Create with Code Course.

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

1. Overview

2. Before you Begin

3. Recorded Live Session - 21st April - 9am PST

4. Recorded Live Session - 21st April - 5pm PST

5. Next Steps

Complete this tutorial