The job seeker's journey with Unity

What is Unity?

What can Unity do?

The real-time production cycle

Roles and careers for real-time creators

How our established creators learned Unity

Develop your learning plan

Next steps on your journey

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the Unity engine: why it’s sometimes referred to as a game engine, how it came to be, and how it has evolved over the years.

Overview

What is a game engine?

What do you do in a game engine?

What don’t you do in a game engine?

The Unity Story

Next steps

In this tutorial, you will learn about career and job opportunities in real-time production, ranging from entry- to director-level positions. You will learn about the disciplines of Art and Design as well as Programming. You will see what a typical workday looks like for someone in each of these fields. You will also learn what it looks like to work as a Unity generalist, never specializing exclusively in one particular discipline. 

Careers in Art and Design

Careers in Programming

Careers as a generalist

What will be your path?

Summary

By now, you might have some thoughts on potential projects or careers that would put your Unity skills to good use. You’re embarking on a journey of learning Unity, and along the way you want to challenge yourself — but not take on too much. In this tutorial, our established creators will talk about their early projects, the challenges they overcame, and the career paths they followed.  

Be realistic

Be patient

Stick with it

Join the communities

Explore game jams

In this tutorial, you will learn more about setting goals for learning Unity, To help you reach your goals, we invite you to create a learning action plan.

Inspiration for identifying your goal

Identify your goal

Complete your plan

Share your Plan 

Interested in learning more about jobs in real-time 3D? New to Unity, and wondering how to start a serious course of learning? Then you're in the right place.

In this course, you'll learn how to learn Unity the way professionals do. You'll also find out about some real-time 3D industry practices, roles, and responsibilities. Along the way, you'll hear from real-time 3D creators who have been at the beginning of their journey, just like you are — and have become professionals.

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Job seeker's guide to learning Unity

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My mission on creating a successful game 

My Learning Action Plan

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My learning plan for my journey of learning with Unity and my first project.

My learning action plan

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My goal: finish my first solo project and publish within a year

Learning Plan

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My goal: Quiero crear mi primer juego de manera completa (con menú de inicio, con varios niveles y con mecánicas sencillas, pero bien elaboradas) para publicarlo en Unity play y futuramente vea la posibilidad de mejorarlo y publicarlo en otras plataformas. 

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Mi plan para la creación de un juego multiplataforma

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Here are the things I would like to accomplish in the short term.

Unity Learning Action Plan

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Take an active role in choosing, achieving, and demonstrating competency in their learning goals and using that knowledge to prepare for work.

Level 1 Job Preparation

Ellen Flaherty

Senior Learning Architect - Unity

Use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions. 

Level 1 Design process

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Identify the main challenges and opportunities on a Unity learning journey

Identify the key elements of the Unity Learn ecosystem, and their purpose

Create a personal learning action plan

Use the Unity Learn platform

Plan your Unity learning journey by setting goals

NealEdu

Product Manager at Unity

Explain the importance of defining and understanding your audience

Investigate opportunities to deliver more value to users

Devise user personas

Apply the iterative design process

Practice putting the user first

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Learn Unity

VR Curricular Framework Resources

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By now, you probably have some ideas about potential Unity projects that you will want to build. You might also have thoughts about careers that would put your Unity skills to good use. You’re embarking on a learning journey. In this tutorial, we’ll help you set goals and develop a plan to meet those goals. 

If your goal is to make your personal vision come to life, listen to the kinds of experiences our creators first created once they were confident in their Unity skills.

If your goal is a career as a real-time creator, there are various industries and roles. For example, you can get a full-time job, you can freelance, you can create your own games and applications to sell. Here are some things our established creators have learned along the way in their careers. 

 
As you begin to plan your learning, keep track of the activities and features of Unity that you keep returning to. For example, do you keep wanting to use C# to engineer game mechanics, or are you more interested in creating artistically captivating environments?  

Also, keep an eye on your Learning dashboard. In which Unity skill areas are you gaining the most experience points (XP)? Let your learning journey guide you to your Unity specialty — and even to your next creation and career. 

Note: To access your Unity Learn Dashboard,  go to the Unity Learn home page and then click the My Learning Dashboard link near the top of the page.

Making a plan helps you stick with your learning and ultimately achieve your goals. We’ve created a Learning Action Plan to help you plan your time and identify those goals for mastering Unity in your own way. Use the Learning Action Plan to identify what you want to create, which careers you are interested in, and the learning pathways you will investigate.

To get started with your learning action plan:

Take a look at our sample Learning Action Plan to get ideas for your own plan.

Make a copy of the Unity Learning Action Plan Template to create your own learning plan document.

Complete the first step of your plan by identifying your Ultimate Unity Goal. Examples are a game you want to create or a career you want to pursue. Whatever you do, be specific, so that you will clearly know when you have achieved the goal. A goal like “to get better at Unity” is not specific enough, because you can always get better! If you aren’t sure yet, jot down some ideas for now, and make them as specific as possible. 

Reflect back on what you’ve learned during the Unity Essentials Pathway. Think of the established creators you've heard from. Whose stories and experiences did you find inspiring? Now that you understand Unity can be used for so many things, what kind of things are you interested in creating? 

Complete the rest of your learning plan. Some questions to ask yourself as you create your plan: 

Is my goal achievable in the next 30, 60, or 90 days? 

If I were to scope my goal, could I realistically build it in a reasonable timeframe? 

What assets do I need to create for my project, such as audio, characters, backgrounds, and user interfaces? 

What skills would I need to create and assemble those assets? (It’s okay if you don’t know all of the skills — identify what you can.) 

What mindsets and traits do I want to work on? 

In the next step, you’ll share your plan so you can get valuable feedback from your community of learners. But the plan you share here isn’t final — in fact, no learning plan is final! Your journey will continue to change direction and focus. Periodically, reflect on where you’ve been, and assess where you want to go. Return to your learning plan often, and update it as often as necessary.

Please share your learning plan — either as a one- to three-minute video, or as a screenshot of your document. If you feel comfortable, please make it Public, and then you will get feedback from others in the community, and remember to give your fellow learners feedback on their plans, too.

1. Upload your video or screenshot as your submission to this assignment (see the "Submit Assignment" block below - this will also add the file to the Gallery).

Note: If you ever want to change your plan or delete a file, you will see an Edit Submission button in this tutorial after you have saved your submission.

2. After you submit, we highly recommend reviewing and giving feedback, via comments in the Gallery, to at least two fellow course participants. As you review a fellow learner’s plan, briefly answer the questions below:

Do you think they could realistically achieve their goal in Unity? 

What skills might they want to learn to achieve their goal? 

Congratulations on completing your Learning Action Plan! We really hope you return to it often, assess your progress, and iterate on your plan as needed so you will reach your goal.

Develop your learning plan

1. Overview

2. Inspiration for identifying your goal

3. Identify your goal

4. Complete your plan

5. Share your Plan

Your submission preview

Complete this Exercise