Refactoring

Sprint Planning

Alpha Build

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

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

Why Agile?

Vertical Slice - Part Two

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

Agile Development

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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Assignment: Game Build for Playtesting

What's Next?

Play:https://play.unity.com/en/games/11e9d8c1-1fec-42ac-a481-5722f1b84a65/equiilibrista

El equilibrista

Agustin Dominguez

https://thecodeisbugged.itch.io/brain-out-dungeon

Brain-Out Dungeon on Itch.io

unity_ABBB8FB9151B27AEEBC3

i love you guys i am not gay if what but i really love you y'all 

IDK what i can said 

safasfafsagj

Attached a 10-minute video showing me being brutally defeated at the missions, then winning at the training. More missions would be created soon, and there are soundtracks and SFX playing, even if you can't hear them.

Strategy-Combat - Overview - Windows, Mac, Linux - Unity 2022.3.26f1 _DX11_ 2024-08-21 10-23-12.mp4

Strategy Unit Game

Arcane_Creator

I had to give up a lot of things in the game, the more difficult I did, the more problems arose with the physics of the game and the code. 

kot88murmansk

This a one level version of an App I created for Preschool or Kindergarten age children. With it they can learn the letters of the alphabet, the sounds they make and how to print them.  I think the sound is the worst thing about my game.  I am not sure if I will take the game any further unless I get more interest in it.

Here is the link if you want to try it out yourself and leave any comments: https://play.unity.com/mg/other/kinderfunbuild

Kinderfun Game - Unity Play - Google Chrome 2024-02-24 10-53-58.mp4

Kinderfun Alpha Build

cocoa1234

Alpha build of my final project. I had to cut off many levels due lack of investing time

Alpha Tikko

AlberB

Alpha Build of my game. I maked android build, but i cant record gameplay, because my phone is bad. 

GamplayAlphaBuild.mp4

Death Fetters Alpha Build

Maks Esipov

A game in alpha means all the features are complete and can be played. These features may be further revised based on testing and feedback. In this tutorial you will build your alpha in preparation for playtesting. 

You might be feeling proud of your game, or disappointed in your progress, or some combination of the two. Regardless, you’ve laid the foundation of your game and you know more about where you’re going.

It’s typical to have some bugs and messy code in a milestone build, so spend some time now, using what you learned in this project to spend time cleaning up your code.

Once you’ve done that, you’ll be on the road to alpha, the milestone where all the content and features in your game are present. So this iteration is about horizontal expansion – adding more art, more content, more feedback.

Remember to develop concentrically. That is, focus on delivering things that will actually be in the game right away, with art, sound and code together, rather than, say, building all the enemies through Level 12. Remember, there’s no guarantee you’ll have time to finish the rest of what you’d need for Level 12!

When you’ve turned in your build, please choose a classmate’s build to look at, and do a quick check-in via the comments about whether they seem to be on track.

Using your refactoring and sprint plans you created in the previous tutorials, get started building. 

Share screenshots, a video capture or the WebGL link to the gallery. 

Provide feedback to at least two other course member’s submissions. Use these guidelines as you provide feedback: 

Accessible - Is your classmate’s build uploaded or posted correctly? Does it run without game-breaking errors? If not, describe the problem here.

Art - Look at the art in the build. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is “all placeholders” and 10 is “completely finished”, how finished is the art?

Audio - Think about the audio in the build. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is “no sound at all” and 10 is “completely finished”, how finished is the audio?

Feedback to Player - Can you see and understand the effects of your actions on the game?

Favorite Part - As a player, what part(s) of the game do you enjoy the most? 

Ready for release - Is there anything that (in your opinion) needs to be fixed for this to be a releasable game? Describe it briefly.

In the next project you’ll learn about the final piece of the design loop: playtesting. You’ll learn how professionals design, prepare and run playtests to learn as much as they can from players, and we’ll give you tools to run your own.   

Alpha Build

1. Assignment: Game Build for Playtesting

2. What's Next?

Your submission preview

Complete this Exercise