Build your portfolio project

Publish to WebGL

Challenge: Add a bonus scene

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.


Publishing Essentials

Unity Essentials Pathway

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!

Unity Essentials Pathway - Learn Game Development for Beginners | Unity Learn

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.

Unity Essentials

Unity Essentials: Install Unity

Open the Unity Essentials project

Explore the Editor Interface

Master 3D scene navigation

Pass the Scene view flying test

Design a mural in the Scene view

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

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

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

Create an immersive soundscape

Audio Essentials: More things to try

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

Add a movement script

Create a rotating collectible

Collect the collectible

Programming Essentials: More things to try

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

Set up a 2D room

Complete your 2D Puzzle Game

Add an animated pet

2D Essentials: More things to try

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

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Overview

Set up the bonus scene

Option 1 - Combine all of your 3D rooms together

Option 2 - Create your own personal art gallery

Option 3 - Create a 3D adventure game

Proceed to the next tutorial

6.C.1 - Overview - all bonus scenes.mp4

6.C.3 - Option 1 - Combine all of your 3D rooms together - FULL.mp4

6.C.4 - Option 2 - Create your own personal art gallery - FULL.mp4

6.C.2 - Set up the bonus scene_U6_V2.mp4

6.C.5 - Option 3 - Create a 3D adventure game - FULL_U6.mp4

Create a brand new unique bonus scene to your project to make your portfolio stand out.  

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Mission 6 - Publishing Essentials

All of the optional challenges for this final section of the Pathway are about adding a bonus scene to your project. 

This is your opportunity to create something unique that you can use as a portfolio piece.

You can create anything you want in this bonus scene! Here are three ideas to serve as starting points:

Option 1:  Combine all of your 3D rooms together.

Option 2:  Create your own personal art gallery.

Option 3:  Create a third-person adventure scene. 

There is more guidance on each of these options in the following steps.

Each of these options requires a substantial amount of work, and each will be challenging in a different way. If you’re not interested in doing any of these challenges, skip to the end of this tutorial to mark it as complete. 

If you choose to create a personalized bonus scene in your project, you’ll need to make it accessible from the Main Menu scene. 


1.  If the 0_MainMenu_Scene is not already open, open it now. 

2.  In the Hierarchy window, expand Canvas > Panels_SceneSelect > Panel_SceneList and select the Bonus_Button GameObject.

3.  At the top of the Inspector window, use the checkbox to activate the GameObject and make the Bonus_Button visible in the scene.

4.  Return to the Build Profiles by selecting File > Build Profiles, then drag the 6_Bonus_Custom_Scene to the bottom of the Scene List.


You’ve created three separate 3D rooms that each showcase a distinct element of creating with Unity: 

1.  The kid’s room that showcases 3D physics. 
2.  The kitchen that showcases audio.
3.  The living room that showcases programming and interactivity.

Why not combine all of those rooms together so that the player can explore the whole house? 

In order to transfer the elements from each scene into another scene, you’ll have to strategically create prefabs of each room and make sure to include only the objects you need. 


1.  Open the kid’s room scene with the bouncing ball and the building blocks. 

2.  In the Hierarchy window, use Ctrl (macOS: Cmd) to select all the GameObjects you want to bring into your bonus scene — that should be all GameObjects except for the Environment, Directional Light, and Camera. 

3.  Right-click the selected GameObjects and select Create Empty Parent to group them under a single GameObject, then rename the new parent GameObject something like “Room_1”.

4.  Drag Room_1 into your My Prefabs folder for re-use in the bonus scene later. 

5.  Repeat all the steps above for the other two rooms to create two more prefabs, Room_2 and Room_3. 

6.  Open the 6_Bonus_Custom_Scene, then drag all three prefabs into the scene, aligning them perfectly so that each doorway leads perfectly into the next room. 

Important:  Remember that you can only have one Camera GameObject in the scene, and there is already one attached to the player from the living room. If you have extra cameras, you’ll need to delete them. 

7.  Customize your newly combined rooms to your liking. Here are a few ideas for you to consider:

Rotate the doors so that the player can easily move between the rooms or add the required components so that the doors open when the player approaches.

Move the player into the kid’s room so that they can see the bouncing ball hit the blocks. 

Use some custom scripts to give the ball a bouncing sound and the falling blocks an impact sound. 

Add the UI from the 2D project that tracks the number of remaining collectibles. 

Add a VFX when the user obtains all the collectibles.

Add your own ideas that would make this experience more interesting! 

A 3D gallery where you’ve curated every piece of art is a fun way to share your interests with others. You can include 3D models that you like, images that you think are beautiful, pictures from your life, or anything else you’d want to share. 

To fill the gallery with custom art, you can find models and images from the Asset Store or from other sites.


1.  Open the 6_Bonus_Custom_Scene. 

2.  From Prefabs > Rooms, drag the 04_Gallery prefab into the scene. 

3.  Enter Play mode to preview the empty gallery. Use the mouse and arrow keys to look around. 

4.  Fill the gallery with 3D models and interesting 2D artwork. Here are a few ideas for you to consider as you complete the gallery:

Use the Asset Store to download and import interesting models into the scene. 

Use other sites for free 3D models like Free3D, Open Game Art, or Kenney.

Import your own pictures or artwork into the scene by dragging them from your file explorer into the Project window. 

Add text descriptions next to certain pieces of art. 

Add a trigger zone that detects when the player approaches a piece of art and plays a voiceover narrative describing the art. 

You can create a new 3D adventure minigame with your own environment and objective.

You can use the simple characters we provided for the living room, the robot character from the initial Starter_Scene you tested, or even download a new 3D character from the Asset Store.


To use one of the simple living room characters, drag one in from the Prefabs > Characters folder and set up your PlayerController script and camera just like you did in the living room scene. 

To use the Robot character, go to Source Files > SpaceRobotKyle > Prefabs, and drag the Player prefab into your scene. This prefab already comes equipped with a camera and player controller.

3.  If you want, download additional environment assets from the Asset Store to fill up your scene. 

Note:  If assets you import have bright pink textures, follow these instructions to upgrade your materials to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). 

4.  Complete your 3D adventure game. Here are a few ideas for you to consider as you complete the scene:

Come up with a unique objective; what is the player’s goal? 

Add collectibles throughout the environment and the UI to track how many collectibles remain. 

Add ambient audio to the scene to bring it to life.

Add some custom programming and interactivity to the game to make it unique.

No matter if you chose to tackle a single challenge, complete them all, or skip them, you're set for the next step. 


Proceed to the next tutorial where you'll use Unity’s Recorder package to capture a video of your project directly from the Editor. 

Challenge: Add a bonus scene

1. Overview

2. Set up the bonus scene

3. Option 1 - Combine all of your 3D rooms together

4. Option 2 - Create your own personal art gallery

5. Option 3 - Create a 3D adventure game

6. Proceed to the next tutorial

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