Add furniture to the kid’s room

Make a bouncy ball

Make a tower of prefab blocks

Adjust the lights, background, and camera angle

3D Essentials: More things to try

Open the bedroom scene in Unity and furnish it with props to customize and personalize the environment.

Build a simple physics setup where a ball bounces off a ramp toward the corner of a room.

Build a stable structure from primitive shapes while learning how colliders and prefabs affect your scene.

Learn to adjust lighting, background, and camera placement to frame a polished, professional shot of your scene.

Extend your project and build skills by completing optional challenges at different difficulty levels.

Complete a short quiz to receive credit for finishing the Mission.

Unity Essentials: 3D Essentials Quiz

Design a kid's bedroom with a bouncing ball and a tower of collapsing building blocks.

In this tutorial series, you'll explore Unity's capabilities by designing a kid's bedroom scene with dynamic elements like a bouncing ball and a tower of blocks. You'll learn new skills in 3D navigation, object customization, and using Unity's physics system. 

You’ll also create prefabs, adjust lighting, and capture your scene with a camera. 

This foundational knowledge is vital to creating any type of Unity project.

3D Essentials

UE Pathway: Unity Essential

Unity Essentials Common Cartridge File

Below you can download a CSV outline and a Common Cartridge file for this pathway.  


Open the CSV outline in spreadsheet software (Excel, Google Sheets) for a summary of all content in the pathway, with links to each tutorial, exercise, and quiz.


Use the Common Cartridge file to import the pathway content into your Learning Management System (such as Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc.). See instructions from your LMS provider for importing Common Cartridge files.

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Essential Unity Practice Project

Master the basics of Unity with the Unity Essentials Pathway. Perfect for beginners, this free learning journey introduces game development, 3D content creation, and Unity's core tools. Start building today!

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Unity Essentials is the perfect place to start for beginners to Unity. No previous experience is necessary.

New to Unity? This guided learning Pathway includes everything you need to get started.

Designed for anyone new to Unity, this guided learning journey is your first step toward creating confidently in the Unity Editor and bringing your visions to life. In this learning Pathway, you’ll design different rooms of a house, learning the essentials of one key skillset as you complete each room.

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Unity Essentials

Set up your Unity account, choose the right plan, and launch the Unity Editor from Unity Hub.

Unity Essentials: Install Unity

Add an existing project from disk to the Unity Hub, open it, and pick up practical tips for working efficiently in Unity.

Open the Unity Essentials project

Open your first Unity scene and get comfortable navigating the main Unity Editor windows.

Explore the Editor Interface

Explore the playground in a guided scavenger hunt to practice basic navigation controls.

Master 3D scene navigation

Practice flying through rings in the Scene view to strengthen your navigation skills in the Unity Editor.

Pass the Scene view flying test

Practice using the Move and Rotate tools in the Scene view to position objects into a custom mural in the playground.

Design a mural in the Scene view

Extend your project and grow your skills by tackling optional challenges at different difficulty levels.

Editor Essentials: More things to try

Unity Essentials: Editor Essentials Quiz

Explore a playground scene and design a mural to get comfortable with the Unity interface.

This tutorial series introduces you to the essential skills of navigating the Unity Editor.

You'll learn to navigate 3D space in a playground scene, using Flythrough mode and tools like Move and Rotate to design a mural.

Once you master these skills, you’ll have the foundation required for confidently creating in Unity.

Editor Essentials

Enhance a kitchen scene by adding background music, ambient sounds, and environmental audio details.

Create an immersive soundscape

Extend your project and strengthen your skills by completing optional challenges at different difficulty levels.

Audio Essentials: More things to try

Complete this quiz to confirm your understanding and receive credit for finishing the Mission.

Unity Essentials: Audio Essentials Quiz

Add immersive sound to a kitchen scene with a variety of different types of audio.

In this Audio Mission, you will learn the fundamentals of implementing different types of audio into Unity scenes. You’ll learn how to set the tone with background music, how to add realism with sound effects, and even how to implement spatial audio in a 3D scene.

Audio Essentials

Select the player character and write a first C# script to control its movement in the scene.

Add a movement script

Write your first C# line from scratch to make a collectible object rotate around its Y-axis.

Create a rotating collectible

Make collectibles vanish on pickup and trigger a particle system to give visual feedback.

Collect the collectible

Extend your project and skills by tackling optional challenges at different difficulty levels.

Programming Essentials: More things to try

Take a short quiz to earn credit for completing this Mission.

Unity Essentials: Programming Essentials Quiz

Add code so that a player character can explore a living room and gather collectibles. 

In this Mission, you’ll program a simple interactive experience where you control a character in a living room scene and move around to collect objects. 

You'll be able to choose from a variety of characters and collectible objects. In our example, we'll use a robot vacuum that maneuvers to pick up dirt around the room.

Programming Essentials

Configure a controllable 2D player character that moves within an empty room bounded by walls.

Set up a 2D room

Populate a 2D room with movable furniture, collectibles, and a UI that tracks user progress.

Complete your 2D Puzzle Game

Use the Sprite Editor to animate a 2D cat or dog and place the character in your room scene.

Add an animated pet

Extend your project with optional Unity challenges that build your skills at different difficulty levels.

2D Essentials: More things to try

Complete a short quiz to confirm your understanding and receive credit for the Mission.

Unity Essentials: 2D Essentials Quiz

Create a top-down minigame similar to the 3D living room experience, but in 2D.

In this 2D Mission, you'll create a top-down 2D version of the interactive living room scene you created earlier. 

Just like in the 3D scene, you'll control a character, and try to collect all the objects in a room. By completing this scene, you'll learn how working in 2D is similar to working in 3D, but also how it’s different.

2D Essentials

Build a main menu Scene that lets users access all parts of your project from one place.

Build your portfolio project

Publish your Unity project to Unity Play so others can easily access and try your application in a browser.

Publish to WebGL

Add a distinctive bonus scene to your Unity project to enhance your portfolio and showcase your skills.

Challenge: Add a bonus scene

Learn to use the Recorder package to capture and export videos of your project directly from the Unity Editor.

Capture a video of your project

Share your project

Combine all of your scenes together into one cohesive portfolio project that you can share with others. 

It's time to collect all your good work together into a singular portfolio piece that you and others can play!

A portfolio, especially in the realm of real-time 3D (RT3D) and game development, is not just a collection of work, but a practical way of demonstrating your familiarity with essential tools and concepts. 

In this Mission, you will package all of your work from this Pathway into a single playable experience that you can easily share with others.
