Introduction to Unity for Humanity's Guide for Creators

We know that video games are a powerful, important medium that are a huge part of people’s lives. Shouldn’t it be true then that, like other media, games should be created with the intention of impacting the people who play them? Of course it should! But it’s important to consider games as their own medium, and so the methods used to generate impact in games are specific to game design. 

This guide is divided into two parts and you can skip between them as you need: 

• Part 1: Game Design for Impact
• Part 2: Game Production in a Nutshell

Throughout this guide, we’ll talk about both impact and game design and production. However, we’ll reveal right now, there’s a special, simple cheat that will help you create the best game for impact you can, even if you read no further:

Align the actions of the player with the impact you hope to create.

Like any rule that looks this simple, actually following the rule can be really difficult. The rest of this guide is dedicated to helping with both the design and implementation of this concept of aligning the actions of the player with the impact you hope to create. 

To get started, watch this video on why Unity is committed to supporting the changemaking creators: