Unity Core Concepts

Getting Familiar with Unity Playground Script 

Setting Up the Project

Adjusting the Camera and Adding Obstacles

Introducing Health 

Creating Objects

Finishing the Game and Next Steps

Getting Started with Unity Playground Curriculum Guide.pdf

Getting Started with Unity Playground is a perfect project for students who have no/limited familiarity with Unity. This curriculum guide consists of eight lesson plans that correspond to 45-60 minute class periods. 

Throughout the course of the project, students create a spaceship game using directions and assets provided. The last tutorial closes  with an open-ended assignment: students have to complete their first Unity game by adding original ideas and Playground visual scripts to the Unity project. 

Unity Playground_Script Reference Guide.pdf

Unity Playground_ Script Cheatsheet.pdf

This is a perfect project for anyone who is getting started with Unity for the first time. You will learn everything from how to navigate the Unity interface to creating your own game without using a single line of code. Educators, make sure to download the Getting Started with Unity Playground Curriculum Guide  and other supporting documents for detailed instructions on how to teach this in class! 

Getting Started with Playground: For Educators

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Add aliens that need to be rescued to the screen

Design the levels of the game

Playground for Educators - 6 - Finishing the Game and Next Steps.mp4

You will add health and define the winning conditions for the game

By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to

Add script to keep track of the health of a player

Make obstacles subtract a player’s health

Now that you have gotten started with Unity Playground, make a creative rescue mission game or something completely different!

Want to use completely different characters and backgrounds? Check out: free game assets by Kenney:https://kenney.nl/ 

You’ll finish the game by turning it into a rescue mission

Go to Project > Assets > Images > Creatures and drag and drop an alien onto the Hierarchy

In the Inspector, add the Polygon Collider 2D and tick off the Trigger option. Also add the Auto Rotate script

In the Rigidbody 2D that is automatically added, make Gravity 0, make Friction 1, and Angular Friction 0.5

Add the Collectable Attribute (Script) so that when the player touches the alien, the player receives one point and the alien is removed from the screen

Press play and check that when the player touches the alien, the alien is removed and the player receives one point

Auto Rotate script: automatically rotates a GameObject

Collectable Attribute script: allows an object to be picked up for score

Make sure that you added a Polygon Collider 2D, Rigidbody 2D, Auto Rotate (Script), and Collectable Attribute (Script) to your alien

From the Hierarchy, drag the alien and the asteroid into the Prefab folder (Project > Prefab)

Now, duplicate the objects and place them around the game scene to make your game more exciting and challenging

It’s now your turn to complete the game design! Will you make it a rescue mission? Racing game? Fighter game? Use the Playground Project Design Document to write out your ideas. You can always look at the Playground script cheat sheet for all the pre-made scripts that you can use

Make sure to also check out the Getting Started, Reference Guide, and the example games. Use #UnityPlayground and share your game on Twitter once you’re done

Finishing the Game and Next Steps

1. Add aliens that need to be rescued to the screen

2. Design the levels of the game

Complete this tutorial