Introduction to Unit 3

Get started with audio

Create 3D sound effects

Add special effects to existing audio

Challenge: Your own soundscape

Add audio to your game

Unit 3 - Audio

In this unit, you’ll learn how to implement audio effects in Unity. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add audio to your own game. 

Welcome to the course

Install the Unity Hub and Editor

Get started with the Unity Editor

Create a balanced primitive structure

Introduction to Unit 2

Setting up the Game

Moving the Player

Moving the Camera

Setting up the Play Area

Creating Collectibles

Detecting Collisions with Collectibles

Displaying Score and Text

Adding AI Navigation

Building the Game

Fill out a Game Design Document

Introduction to Unit 4

Get started with VFX

Play around with a Particle System

Create an environmental Particle System

Create a burst particle

Challenge: Add some magic to your scene

Add VFX to your game

Introduction to Unit 5

Get started with user interfaces

Add a title to your scene

Manage screen size and anchors

Create a menu background with images

Add basic button functionality

Add toggles and sliders

Challenge: Make a worldspace UI

Add UI to your game

Introduction to Unit 6

Get started with animation

Create your first 3D animations

Refine your animation

Control animation with an Animator

Import animation

Challenge: Bring the scene to life

Add animation to your game

Introduction to Unit 7

Get started with shaders and materials

Explore meshes and rendering

Explore shaders

Simulate solid surfaces

Map materials with textures

Create translucent and transparent effects

Add physical texture with bump mapping 

Challenge: Create your still life composition

Add materials to your game

Introduction to Unit 8

Get started with lighting

Get started with lighting in Unity

Configure the Directional Light and skybox

Add light sources to your scene

Configure shadows in your scene

Bake a lightmap for your scene

Improve your lighting with Light Probes

Examine and complete the indoor scene

Refine and troubleshoot the indoor scene

Showcase your work with lighting

Add lighting to your game

Introduction to Unit 9

Explore the production cycle

Reimagine your game on multiple platforms

Iterate on the player controller

Source new assets

Unity pro tips

Prepare for the UCA Game Dev exam

Finalize your project

Unit 1 - Unity fundamentals

Unit 2 - Program a basic game

Unit 4 - VFX

Unit 5 - UI

Unit 6 - Animation

Unit 7 - Materials

Unit 8 - Lighting

Unit 9 - Iterate on your game

In this unit, you will create your first Unity project, get comfortable using the Unity Editor, and then design your first scene. 

Unit 1 - Get started in Unity

In this unit, you will create a simple game called Roll-a-Ball that will be the foundation for your personal game project, which you will work on for the entire course.  

In this unit, you’ll learn how to implement visual effects (VFX)  in Unity. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add VFX to your own game. 

Unit 4 - Visual Effects

In this unit, you’ll learn how to create user interfaces (UI) in a Unity project. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add UI to your own game. 

Unit 5 - User Interfaces

In this unit, you’ll learn how to create and control animations in a Unity project. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add animations to your own game. 

Add physical texture with bump mapping

In this unit, you’ll learn how to add custom materials, including a repeating pattern and a normal map to simulate height and surface texture. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add animations to your own game.

In this unit, you’ll learn how to add lighting to your scene to make things more polished and visually pleasing. Then you’ll apply those new skills and add lighting to your own game.

In this unit, you’ll reflect on the process so far, iterate on the player controller, swap out the assets in your game, and then you’ll learn some Unity tips and tricks to take your skills to the next level.

Unit 9 - Iterate on your Game

In this unit, you’ll make sure you’re ready to take the certification exam and make any final adjustments to your game to make sure it meets the goals outlined in your Game Design Document.  

Unit 10 - Prepare for certification and publishing

This course is designed to help you prepare for the 

Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer

In this course, you will master the fundamental skills needed for game development with Unity, including programming in C#, designing immersive audio and stunning visual effects, crafting intuitive user interfaces, and applying unique animations, materials and lighting.

You'll start by creating a design document for your own game, then gradually build a working prototype. Throughout the course, you'll enhance your game using the skills you acquire, taking it from a simple idea to a finished product.

Towards the end of the course, there is dedicated time for a comprehensive review of everything you’ve learned to ensure you’re fully prepared to ace the exam

When you're done with the course, you will not only have the skills to pass the Unity Certified Associate exam and continue creating your own games, but you'll also have a fully realized game that you've designed and created from scratch.

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UCA: Game Developer - Certification Prep Course

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Overview

Requirements

Review your design document

Review the asset pack

Challenge guidance

More things to try

Audio_Overview (1).mp4

win_sound.mp4

wall_sound.mp4

Adding sound to your games allows you to enhance immersion, create a more engaging atmosphere, and provide audio cues for gameplay elements and storytelling.

In this tutorial, you’ll add some ambient music to make things more exciting, add pickup sounds to give feedback to the user, and finally, add a sound effect that plays when you lose the game.

Make "Roll-A-Ball" Your Own

In order to successfully complete this challenge, your project must include the following elements, styled according to the theme outlined in your design document:

A soundtrack that starts automatically and plays while the game is running.

A sound that tells the user when they successfully pick up a token.

A sound that plays when the enemy character catches the player.

Your Game Design Document (GDD) is still a work in progress. Take a moment to open your GDD now and review it.

Depending on the design decisions you make, your soundscape could be completely different. A horror-themed game will have a very different soundscape from a lighthearted unicorn-themed game. Some sounds are so iconic that you immediately associate them with a specific game. 

Now, think about your specific theme and the type of sounds that would make sense for your game.

Take some time to review the assets provided in the UCU Game Developer package that you downloaded and imported earlier in the Fill out a Game Design Document tutorial.

If you did not download and import those assets, you can do that now. 

In the asset pack, you can browse the entire Sound folder, which contains a Music and SoundFX folder. These might give you ideas for audio you could add to your game.

The following sections will provide you with some guidance on each of the tasks in this challenge. 

Create a new GameObject to hold the Audio Source component. 

Enable the Play on Awake option to make sure the music plays when the game starts.

If you need a reminder on how to do this, review the Audio mission in the Creative Core pathway on Unity Learn.

Play on Awake won't work in this case. You need a way to play the sound only when needed. There is a pickup function that manages the pickup event in the PlayerController script. This would be a great place to activate a sound.

You can stop and start a sound with the <yoursoundcomponent>.Play() and <yoursoundcomponent>.Stop() methods.

You can access the Audio Source component on a GameObject with the GetComponent<AudioSource>(); method. It is best practice to do this in the Awake function of a script since the Awake method is called when a scene is loaded. Add this line to your Awake function:

audioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();

In this case, you can’t use the Player GameObject to hold the Audio Source component since it will be destroyed on the game-over event.

Remember that the collision function holds a reference to the object it collided with; in this case, the Enemy GameObject.

Need more help? Here is the full line of code:

collision.gameObject.GetComponent<AudioSource>().Play();

If you want to further develop your skills, explore new concepts, or improve your project, check out some of the optional activities below. Each activity is identified as being either Easy, Medium, or Difficult, so you know what level of difficulty to expect.

These activities are entirely optional, so if you’re not interested, no problem – just skip this step. We do recommend attempting at least one of them in order to get the most out of this learning experience. Good luck!

Set a sound effect to play when the win condition is achieved. You already have a function that sets the winText GameObject in the PlayerController script. You can also use that function to play a sound.

Remember you may need to switch off the theme music as well.

Medium: Play a sound when the player hits the boundary walls.

In the assets for this project, you were provided with a library of sounds. You can select one of these sounds and use it to indicate when the ball hits a wall. For this to work, you can add the sound to the walls and then use tags to identify the collision object, then play the audio source on that object.

Add audio to your game

1. Overview

2. Requirements

3. Review your design document

4. Review the asset pack

5. Challenge guidance

6. More things to try

Complete this tutorial