Interested in making your own video games?
This is an Open Source game design curriculum built to be used in a classroom environment. The course is built for anyone, even complete beginners, to get the core skills of building a game in Unity. There are also resources along the way to help more advanced users to test their skills.\ Every topic brought up in these lessons is explained here, no prior knowledge is required.\ Throughout the course there is opportunity for every type of student to show their skills including Programmers, Artists, Designers, and Musicians.
Want to jump right in? Click here to start on the first unit, a Rube GoldBerg Machine.
This is an intro level course to help you get familiar with the Unity Engine.\ The Unity Engine is a free Game Engine that anyone can learn to use and make awesome games with.\ This course features five total units with in depth tutorials for each. They aim to give you an understanding of Unity so that you can take concepts and apply them else where rather than just telling you what to do.\ Along the way there are always external resources and extra challenges given to help you get that extra boost in skills needed to pursue Game Development!
This course is licensed under the MIT License so it is entirely free to use.\ This is to encourage usage in a classroom environment (as that was the original intention).
Despite the name, this course can be used by any grade level.
Through this course you will gain a working knowledge of the Unity Engine with skills like :
In this course you will be going through five units. Each unit contains relevant tutorials and information to complete the project at the end of each as well as extra resources and challenges.
The units should be completed in the order shown here as the skills of each build off of the previous entries in the course.\ Within each unit there is another Readme just like this that outlines the targets of each unit.\ Then there are the numbered lessons. These should also be completed in order.\ There are also some other folders.
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