Whether you’re an aspiring maker or an educator in game development: Welcome to Unity! Unity Playground is a framework to create 2D, physics-based games, and it’s perfect for teaching beginner game developers to make games in Unity without coding. Download the project from the Asset Store

In this section, you’ll learn about a few fundamental concepts of Unity Playground so you can begin creating your own fun interactive experiences.

In this tutorial, you’ll create obstacles for the ship to navigate around and collectable objects that will be used to give the overall game a goal. By the end of this tutorial, you will have completed your first game!

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.

This is a perfect project for anyone who is getting started with Unity for the first time. You will learn everything from how to navigate the Unity interface to creating your own game without using a single line of code. Educators, make sure to download the Getting Started with Unity Playground Curriculum Guide and other supporting documents for detailed instructions on how to teach this in class!

Unity Playground comes with programmed scripts so that you just need to drag and drop the ones that you need on your hierarchy. Before we dive into game development, let's review Playground scripts that you can use to design your first game in Unity!

In the 2nd episode of the Unity Prototyping series, the Unity Evangelism team, created a prototype that allowed players to experiment with Unity’s physics system, which allows you to create a lot of complex gameplay with a few simple elements! In this project, watch the workshop video that explains in greater detail how the prototype was created and download the project assets and try to experiment with Unity’s physics system. You can then also work through the supporting tutorials to learn more about the features used in this episode. **You can find the downloadable assets in the "Project Materials" Tab

Are you a teacher or educator? This section is a must-read for you, and is also suggested for advanced users who want to understand the Playground better.

You will add health and define the winning conditions for the game Tutorial Outcome By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to Add script to keep track of the health of a player Make obstacles subtract a player’s health Display the health of a player Add User Interface design to the game Tag GameObjects Define the winning conditions Key concepts: Game level design Unity Playground scripts Game Ideas Dog fight game between two players Spaceship precision flying game Space racing game Challenge Ideas: Now that you have gotten started with Unity Playground, make a creative rescue mission game or something completely different! Want to use completely different characters and backgrounds? Check out: free game assets by Kenney: https://kenney.nl/

You will learn how to add a background and a player that can move and rotate. You will also learn how to add particles to your GameObjects so that they look animated. Tutorial Outcome By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to Add GameObjects to the Hierarchy Add Components to the Inspector Transform GameObjects Make changes to GameObjects Key concepts: Rigidbody 2D Play mode Push script Rotate script Particles Parenting GameObjects Challenge Ideas: Change the spaceship from SpaceshipRed to SpaceshipBlue Add other Particles to the spaceship, by going to Project > Prefabs > Particles > select a particle