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 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

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 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

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 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

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

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 - 6th May - 9am PST

Recorded Live Session - 6th May - 5pm PST

Next Steps

CWC_Morn_Part3_Reduced.mp4

CWC_Eve_Part3_Reduced.mp4

In this live session, one of our Unity experts will do a deep dive on an up-voted topic from the Create with Code Live Connect group. In the morning session, we will be doing some Super Speed Dev to see what we can make in an hour and also showing you how to save game progress. In the evening session, we will go over Enemy Pathfinding / AI and also give you an intro to Character Animation.  

CWCL_W7_S3_PM_pt1.zip

CwCL_FPS-and-Save.zip

In the morning session, we will be doing some Super Speed Dev to see what we can make in an hour and also showing you how to save game progress. 

In the evening session, we will go over Enemy Pathfinding / AI and also give you an intro to Character Animation.  

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

For the evening session on Pathfinding AI, you can download the starter file from this link

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

Submit your personal projects to the challenge page before Thursday, May 7 at midnight!

Come up with questions you want to ask in the AMA session tomorrow

Add a “staircase” that the Agent can walk on to get to the large platform

Create a waypoint system that the AI can patrol between

Research and play around with some of the new techniques explored in this session

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

1. Overview

2. Before you Begin

3. Recorded Live Session - 6th May - 9am PST

4. Recorded Live Session - 6th May - 5pm PST

5. Next Steps

Complete this tutorial