Ragdolls are variants of animated objects whose bones are completely taken over by the force of physics. They’re most often used when a character is defeated, like in an action game when a player’s health depletes, or when you want a character’s movement to appear to be driven by physical forces. In this tutorial, we’ll create a Ragdoll using Unity’s built-in Create Ragdoll window. We'll use the Eva character in our examples, but you can use any character you want.

Use the resources in this tutorial to help complete your game project using the Unity Playground framework. Each step drills down into one of the scripts, actions, attributes, or conditions that are used in the project.

How to detect mouse clicks on a Collider or GUI element. This tutorial is included in the Beginner Scripting project. Previous: GetAxis Next: GetComponent

How to use Awake and Start, two of Unity's initialization functions.

The Console Window is an incredibly useful tool to aid in debugging your projects and finding where the problems within your scripts lie. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the Console Window and understand the information displayed there.

Making a spinner in Unity is a great entry-level project to get students to think about programming and development. This series was created with students in middle/high school in mind, but it could be used for younger and older students with modification on how the content is presented. Learn more about teaching ideas in this video and by downloading the curriculum guide here.

You may have made games in the past that created and destroyed a lot of items (such as bullets or enemies). What you may not have known is that the act of instantiating and destroying are inefficient and can slow your projects down. This recorded live session from April 2014 looks at a new way of handling this: object pooling. Tune in to learn the concepts of object pooling as well as how to build a generic pooler object that can be used in all of your projects.

Switch statements act like streamline conditionals. They are useful for when you want to compare a single variable against a series of constants. In this video you will learn how to write and use switch statements. This tutorial is included in the Beginner Scripting project. Previous: Enumerations Next: This is the final tutorial in the project.

Enumerations allow you to create a collection of related constants. In this video you will learn how to declare and use enumerations in your code. This tutorial is included in the Beginner Scripting project. Previous: Invoke Next: Switch Statements

Using arrays to collect variables together into a more manageable form. This tutorial is included in the Beginner Scripting project. Previous: Instantiate Next: Invoke