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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Movement Scripts 

Attributes Scripts

Gameplay Scripts

Conditions Scripts

Actions Scripts

Unity Playground comes with programmed scripts so that you just need to drag and drop the ones that you need on your hierarchy. Before we dive into game development, let's review Playground scripts that you can use to design your first game in Unity!    

Unity Playground comes with pre-coded scripts so that you just need to drag and drop the ones that you need on your hierarchy. Before we dive in, make sure you look at all that’s available to work with!

Movement scripts allow you to move objects upon click of select keys or automatically.

Open the Unity Playground Cheatsheet and look at the Movement pages (you can also just look on the right side).

Look at what kinds of scripts are available.

What’s the difference between the scripts on ‘Movement’ and Movement 2’?

Why would you want certain objects to move automatically and others to move upon pressing of keys?

Why would you want to use ‘FollowTarget’, ‘Patrol’, and ’Wander’ for the enemy player?

Attributes scripts allow you to move objects upon click of select keys or automatically.

Bullet has no functionality of its own, but it holds a reference to which Player has shot the projectile

Collectable awards a point to any player who touches the object

DestroyForPoints destroys the GameObject on collision and awards points to the Player who originally shot the bullet

HealthSystem allows characters, enemies, or objects to take damage, and potentially be removed from the game

ModifyHealth makes any physical object capable of subtracting or adding health to any object that has theHealthSystem attribute

Resource allows objects to be picked up and added to an inventory displayed by the UI

Gameplay scripts are a miscellaneous category of scripts to produce gameplay effects. They act on their own, meaning they don’t require Conditions to activate them.

ObjectCreatorArea generates new objects from a prefab, in a rectangular area

ObjectShooter allows you to propel or shoot a prefab when pressing a key (by default Space)

PickUpAndHold gives a character the ability to pick up (and drop) something

TimeSelfDestruct gets rid of objects that are no longer needed in the scene after a certain time

Conditions act as a gateway to other behaviors. If the condition is verified, then the attached Actions are executed.

ConditionArea performs an action when a GameObject enters, exits, or stays  inside the trigger collider

ConditionCollision performs an action when this GameObject collides with another

ConditionKeyPress performs an action when a button is pressed, released, or as long as it’s kept pressed

ConditionRepeat performs an action repeatedly

Actions are executed when a Condition is verified. 

Create creates a new GameObject from a Prefab in a specific position 

Destroy destroys a GameObject instantaneously on impact. Could be this object, or the one that suffered the impact 

Teleport teleports this or another object to a new location 

ConsumeResource (when a specified Type of Resource is present in the player’s inventory in the quantity specified in Amount Needed), the amount of resources is consumed 

Getting Familiar with Unity Playground Script

1. Movement Scripts

2. Attributes Scripts

3. Gameplay Scripts

4. Conditions Scripts

5. Actions Scripts

Complete this tutorial