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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Upload your project

Movie_001.mp4

Rubi's Essentials

Rubixity

Movie_003.mp4

VF Essentials Project

violaflora

The scenes I created during the Unity Essentials Pathway. The custom scene is three rooms stitched together with the mini game extended throughout the whole house. Extra walls make the house complete.

Movie_002.mp4

Unity Essentials w/ Custom Scene

jonathan_slark

 it is based on the unity essentials course. 

Untitled video - Made with Clipchamp.mp4

essentials project

aadya_04

A collection of all the Unity Essentials Pathway projects

Unity Essentials Demo

Doberjohnny

https://play.unity.com/en/games/61f99eda-dbf9-4dae-a751-186166af4231/firstbuild

My first unity project

medasdan

 This project started as a Unity Essentials learning experience, but I’ve added my own personal touches to make it something more meaningful. I hope you enjoy exploring this space as much as I 

Harleys Newbie Project

MadHarley15

I made this for 2 weeks. The guide has been comprehensible.

Practice Game

rymonjared

Create and share a simple build of a Unity experience.

Publishing

NealEdu

Product Manager at Unity

Share your work to get credit for completing the entire Pathway. 

Games

Film

Automotive

Add the required modules for a basic build to the current Unity install

Adjust Build Settings to create a basic build.

Share a build as a Unity Learn submission

Configure a basic build of a project

You have completed all the work for this entire Pathway, where you have learned the essentials of creating in Unity.

Think back to all you accomplished in this Pathway:

You mastered 3D scene navigation and passed the Scene view flying test.

You added furniture to a kid’s bedroom.

You made a bouncy ball with a custom material and physics.

You configured the skybox, lighting, and camera.

You create an immersive soundscape in a kitchen.

You coded a collectible that spawned a particle effect.

You set up a 2D room with specialized 2D components.

You completed a 2D puzzle game, including an animated 2D pet. 

You set up your work as a single portfolio project.

That’s quite an impressive list! Now all that's left to do is share your work with others on Unity Learn.

When you do this, you will get XP on Unity Learn for completing the entire Unity Essentials Pathway, and you’ll earn the official Unity Essentials badge.

Overview

Here's where you’ll upload your screen recording or a link to your WebGL build to Unity Learn in order to inspire others, and to prove that you have, in fact, mastered the essentials of creating in Unity.

Submitting your screen recording is required in order to get credit for completing this Pathway, but it also ties you in with the learning community, where you can see what others are working on and share your creations.

1.  Locate the screen recordings you created or the WebGL link for your published project.

2.  Add a submission title and description below. Make sure to include the screenshots, video recording, or WebGL link. If you have additional details to share about your process or the project that you have created, you can share them in the description too.

5.  Check your submission preview and then complete the CAPTCHA test and select Submit and continue.

Share your project

Overview

1. Upload your project

Your submission preview

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