Why Agile?

Vertical Slice - Part Two

Agile Development

Course Introduction and Planning

Game Jams and Skilling Up

Set your goals and find your community

What is the Design Process? 

Scope

Constraints and Our Theme

Concentric Design

Why Prototype? 

Assets shouldn't be liabilities

The Stages of Game Development

Planning your project

CRC Cards

Your First Milestone: Vertical Slice

Refactoring

Sprint Planning

Alpha Build

What is Playtesting?

How To Playtest

Sprint Plan

Review and Redesign

How to Release your Game

Alpha and Beyond

Bonus Content

In this project you will learn about what's ahead for you on your journey to finishing a game! You'll also get a chance to confirm that you have the right knowledge and skills to get the most out of the course, along with links to useful resources that will help you on your way. You will also learn how to equip yourself for your journey, and meet some of your fellow adventurers.

Goal Setting and Community Building

In this project you will learn about using a design process to take your idea from a broad concept into a finished, polished game, the concept of scope will help you achieve your goal of making a game, how constraints can help you create rules to keep you in scope,  and how to use the specific design process, concentric design.

The Design Process

In this project you will find out if your game idea is fun through Prototyping. You will also learn how to make a plan for assets you will use in your game – the sounds, images, models, animations and other resources that make up a game – to avoid nasty surprises later in development. 

Prototyping

In this project you will learn how to keep a sense of the big picture by dividing the game development process into stages and milestones, hit your first major milestone in the development of a game through creating a vertical slice, and learn two planning tools you can use to plot a course to a finished game. 

Milestones

Professional teams schedule some time for code cleanup after each milestone so their code stays flexible and easy to work with. This project will give you some tips and general principles for this process, known as refactoring. With your vertical slice done and your code in good shape, this is where you’ll start down the road to alpha.

Writing Better Code

Playtesting is more than just asking people if your game is fun. It's a structured process for collecting useful information about specific parts of your design. In this project you will learn why Playtesting helps you collect useful information on your design and how to execute the entire process. 

Playtesting

In this project you will learn how to release your game, what the next steps are after game release, and additional tips for getting to the end. 

Release your game

Lots of people start games, but it’s surprisingly hard to finish one. This course guides you through the process used by professional game makers to develop their ideas, keep their projects on track and deliver a complete, released game. 

Explore the Unity Asset Store for game toolkits and template assets that will help you quickly design and prototype your games. These resources can accelerate your development process and help you achieve your goal of releasing a polished game!

Design and Publish Your Original Game: Unity USC Games Unlocked

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Agile In Journey

Vertical Slice - Part 2

What's Next

 birds drop eggs and players collect them in a basket for points 

EGG CATCH

MATER2030

Corte vertical - Parte 2

Agustin Dominguez

Movie_002.mp4

Backlog 3

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Movie_001.mp4

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I have not thought of a name for this game yet.

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Strategy Combat Vertical Slice 2

Arcane_Creator

A short video of the game mechanics, the player's interaction with chickens. 

Kura - MainScene - Windows, Mac, Linux - Unity 2022.3.13f1 _DX11_ 2024-04-23 20-59-21 (online-video-cutter.com).mp4

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Added new enemies, added levels 3,4,5, added all sounds
Reason for the error at the end of the video is that there are no new levels after this level, don't pay attention 

My project (1) - ChoseLevelScene - Windows, Mac, Linux - Unity 2021.3.14f1 Personal _DX11_ 2023-04-15 14-50-38.mp4

Death Fetters, Vertical Slice 2

Maks Esipov

Bonus - Agile in Journey.mp4

In this tutorial you will use what you've learned about project planning and agile development to complete your vertical slice. This will set you on the path of creating your the first build of your game that you will have friends and family test for you later in the course. 

It's time to complete your vertical slice, focusing on the bare minimum needed to convey what it is to play your game. Be ruthless – even more than last week – about prioritization. Your goal is to deliver that slice of gameplay and prove your concept. Don't let yourself polish anything; deal with bugs only if they are game-breaking. 

At this point, you’ve almost certainly realized you’re not going to finish everything you wanted to get into this milestone. Remember, that’s fine! It’s part of game development. Good game development means being realistic, and being ready to let go of things that you just don’t have time to build. Warnings aside, it feels good when you finish your vertical slice – you’ll feel like you’ve already got a game! 

Using the sprint plan assignment you completed in the previous tutorial dedicate time to what you decided to work for this sprint.

Upload screen captures or video of your project. If you created a a WebGL version of your project share the link in your description. 

Browse the submission gallery and comment on at least two other course member’s submissions. 

Recommended feedback guidance: As you review, try to answer these two questions: "Can you see and understand the effects of your actions in the game?" and "Do you think the game has all the elements needed for a vertical slice?"  If the answers are yes, let the author know they succeeded and provide specific information for how you think they successfully created a realistic, usable, understandable vertical slice. If you don't think did so, (gently) tell them what you didn’t understand and offer encouragement. 

In the next module you’ll learn about some general principles for refactoring, that is, cleaning up code. Professional teams schedule some time for this after each milestone so their code stays flexible and easy to work with. 

With your vertical slice done and your code in good shape, you’ll be ready to start down the road to alpha. 

Vertical Slice - Part Two

1. Agile In Journey

2. Vertical Slice - Part 2

3. What's Next

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