Playground: Get started on your first game

Playground: Add gameplay elements

Playground concepts

Advanced concepts

Playground: Reference Guide

Whether you’re an aspiring maker or an educator in game development: Welcome to Unity!
Unity Playground is a framework to create 2D, physics-based games, and it’s perfect for teaching beginner game developers to make games in Unity without coding. 

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Unity Playground

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

Get Started with the Creator Kit: Puzzle

Design a Simple Puzzle

Increase the Challenge

Rolling Onward!

Get Started with the Creator Kit: RPG

Create a World to Explore

Enhance the World

Populate your World

Create a Quest

Develop the Player Experience

Quest Accepted!

Scripts as Behaviour Components

Variables and Functions

Conventions and Syntax

IF Statements

Loops

Scope and Access Modifiers

Start MonoBehaviour Methods

Update and FixedUpdate

Vector Maths

Enabling and Disabling Components

Activating GameObjects

Translate and Rotate

Look At

Linear Interpolation

Destroy

GetButton and GetKey

GetAxis

Detecting Mouse Clicks

GetComponent

Time

DataTypes

Classes

Instantiate

Arrays

Invoke

Enumerations

Switch Statements

Creating Properties

Ternary Operator

Statics

Method Overloading 

Generics

Inheritance

Polymorphism and casting

Member Hiding

Overriding

Interfaces

Extension Methods 

Namespaces

Lists and Dictionaries 

Coroutines

Quaternions

Delegates

Attributes

Events

Get started with John Lemon’s Haunted Jaunt

Write a script for character movement

The Environment

The Camera

Ending the Game

Enemies, Part 1: Static Observers

Enemies, Part 2: Dynamic Observers

Audio

Build, Run, Distribute 

Intro & Installing VRTK

VR Placing Assets (using VRTK)

VR Interactable Objects (using VRTK)

VR Snap Zones (using VRTK)

VR User Interface

Unity Playground_Script Reference Guide.pdf

Unity Playground_ Script Cheatsheet.pdf

Getting Started with Unity Playground Curriculum Guide.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

Welcome to the Creator Kit: Puzzle! Make deliciously simple puzzles to challenge yourself and baffle your friends using physics in Unity, no code required. All you need to do is guide a marble to a goal — simple, right?

Creator Kit: Puzzle

Welcome to the RPG Creator Kit! If you fancy yourself an intrepid adventurer and love completing NPC quests to fill up your inventory, this is the kit for you.

This Creator Kit is code-free, which means that you can focus on learning about Unity Editor and customizing the game based on your own ideas and interests.  When you’ve completed the learning project, you’ll be able to share your customized RPG with friends. We also have lots more 2D game content for you to explore!

Creator Kit: RPG

This classic Unity tutorial project has been completely refreshed. Check out the NEW 

Create a simple rolling ball game that teaches you many of the principles of working with Unity. No asset download is required for this project.

Roll-a-ball (Deprecated)

Learn about programming for game development, from the very beginning with these easy to follow video tutorials.

Beginner Scripting

This project contains essential knowledge for intermediate level scripting with these video tutorials. 

Intermediate Scripting

3D Beginner Complete Project

Welcome to the John Lemon’s Haunted Jaunt: 3D Beginner Project! In this project, you won’t just discover how to create a stealth game — each of the 10 tutorials also explains the principles behind every step. No previous experience is needed, which makes John Lemon’s Haunted Jaunt the perfect start to your journey with Unity.

John Lemon's Haunted Jaunt: 3D Beginner

2D Beginner Complete Project 

A town is in peril after their friendly robots become broken! It's Ruby's quest to fix them!
Learn to create this small 2D RPG from scratch and save the town!

Please Note: We are aware that this project is getting older - Ruby's 2D Adventure has been reworked into a new 

Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner

Low Poly Car

Clamp.fbx

GoodBattery.fbx

DeadBattery.fbx

Lesson Plans - VR in Unity.zip

For those new to creating virtual reality in Unity, this project utilizes a popular free plugin called VRTK to create a "Jump Start Your Car Battery" app prototype that focuses on getting started quickly, with minimal or no development experience.

VR in Unity: A Beginner's Guide (using VRTK)

Because this course consists of projects for understanding concepts, as well as projects for in class instruction, projects listed as (For Educators) are for educators to try on their own time to learn key concepts. Projects listed as (For In-Class Instruction) are for students to attempt in class - where you can use the knowledge learned from For Educator projects to help teach and assist students. This progression of projects build on top of one another - enabling students to begin understanding concepts and then adding more ways for them to dive deeper into Unity.

Using the Unity Interface (For Educators) - In this tutorial, you'll learn all about navigating the actual Unity Editor itself. It can be daunting opening a new piece of software, so this tutorial is designed to walk you through each section of the application when it opens. Valuable knowledge for explaining to students how to understand the Unity Editor!

Unity Playground (For In-Class Instruction) - "Unity Playground" is a foundational project to help your students understand the Unity interface and build games without any programming experience! In this project, students can build a variety of different games to learn about game mechanics and design their own small games.

Getting Started with Playground: For Educators (For Educators) - This project will help reinforce what you've learned about Unity, help explain core Unity concepts, break down what you need to know about how "Playground" works, and even add an additional challenge of doing some introductory level scripting! Useful to learn in depth about "Playground", and how you can expand on it!

Essential Unity Concepts (For Educators) - This optional tutorial will help reinforce the core Unity Concepts explained in "Getting Started with Playground." It gives additional context for things to know in Unity, but not required to do at all.

Creator Kit: Puzzle (For In-Class Instruction) - The "Creator Kit: Puzzle"  is a great introduction to 3D development. With "Playground", students had an opportunity to be creative and make 2D games, and potentially dive into some small scripting challenges. To help ease students into 3D projects, this project helps students learn how to design puzzles, make a small project, and cement their understanding of the Unity editor.

Creator Kit: RPG (For In-Class Instruction) - The "Creator Kit: RPG" helps students expand more into 2D development, learning a little bit more about the tools and really enabling students to build their own game world. This project allows students to dive deeper into how Unity works and design their own RPG world.

Roll-a-Ball (For In-Class Instruction) - "Roll-a-Ball" is the classic introduction to Unity. Students learn to create their own small game in Unity, reinforcing how to navigate in a 3D world, learning how to program user input, and learning more about how Unity's physics work to create a fun project from scratch.

Beginner Scripting (For Educators) - "Beginner Scripting" is designed to help you understand the foundations of programming - from variables to loops - to the nuances of Unity that help makes people's lives easier, serving as a complement to "Roll-a-Ball." This project will help you learn the terminology and the concepts to know when using C# to program games and projects in Unity. The concepts taught in this project are very important to making anything in Unity. 

Intermediate Scripting (For Educators) - "Intermediate Scripting" walks you through additional terms that you may run into when browsing various tutorials. This is helpful to reinforce additional scripting and programming terminology that is commonly used and may be mentioned in further tutorials.

John Lemon's Haunted Jaunt: 3D Beginner - This project incorporates many aspects covered in previous projects - creating a 3D world and some scripting - and adds on other features of Unity to help students understand the tools available to them when building a game.

Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner - This project expands on concepts from other 2D projects - covering even more tools specifically for building games in 2D.

VR in Unity: A Beginner's Guide (using VRTK) - For classrooms that have VR headsets available, this project will help get students eased into VR development - walking you through how to get this project set up in Unity and understand basic VR interactions necessary for any experience. This project is auxiliary.

Want to bring Unity into your classroom?  This course brings together all the content you can use for your students to get them started from absolute beginner all the way to building and programming their own games. Included in this course are various tutorials and projects for in class instruction, as well as resources to help educators learn concepts.

To see the suggested structure of how to learn from and use this course, head over to the For Educators tab!