Game Development with Unity 5

In this lesson from Learn to Program, get an introduction to the Unity 5 software and discover what will be covered in this game development course.

Before you can start building 3D games with Unity, it's important to understand the workspace. In this lesson, get a guided tour of the Unity 5 interface.

Game Scenes in Unity 5 contain the objects of your game. In this lesson, explore the properties of Scenes, and learn to add objects, save, and open a Scene.

Discover what game objects in Unity 5 are, how to create one, and how they differ from game assets in this lesson with Nicholas from Learn to Program.

The UI system in Unity 5 makes it easy to create UI that is positioned among other 2D and 3D objects in the Scene. Explore the essentials of it in this lesson.

Want to learn how to test games you're building in Unity 5? Nicholas from Learn to Program shows how to start a game, as well as pause and stop it.

Assets form some of the most important building blocks of a Unity 5 game or interactive experience. Learn all about importing and managing them in this lesson.

Now that you know what types of assets are imported into a Unity 5 environment, learn about the many asset import settings available to you as a game developer.

It's easy to change an asset outside of Unity, then see the change automatically echoed within the Scene—with no effort on your end. Learn how in this lesson!

Explore the differences between assets and game objects in Unity 5, get clarification on how to turn an asset into a game object, and learn about instancing.

Prefabs are an important aspect of developing games within Unity 5. Discover the fundamentals of prefabs, learn why they're needed, and learn to make them!

This lesson from Learn to Program discusses how to script in C# for Unity and demonstrates how to add those scripts to objects as components.

This lesson outlines the types of objects and variables you can assign to a C# script in Unity 5. Learn how to create variables, edit them, and more.

Learning how to debug C# script in Unity 5 is a valuable skill. Discover how to find broken code and fix it using the Console in conjunction with MonoDevelop.

Learn all about inputs and the Input Manager in Unity 5. Discover how inputs work, see how to set up cases using simple logic for the inputs, and more.

Learn about axes inputs and values, then see how to create a setup that allows you to work with axes inputs and values from the Unity Editor.

In this Unity 5 lesson, Nicholas from Learn to Program discusses the four states of a button and demonstrates how to write the C# code for each.

In this lesson, learn how to create C# input scripts that move a character around the Unity 5 game scene. Explore movement logic, mult variables, and more.

Nicholas from Learn to Program discusses the C# script behind the button pressed logic, button unpressed logic, and the button unpressed position change.

Learn all about the fundamentals of Unity's 3D physics engine, including how to set up and change the physics properties of simple objects to create collisions.

Nicholas from Learn to Program explores the fundamentals of passive physics, discusses commonly used colliders, and shows how to create a barrier in Unity 5.

Explore the available Rigidbody parameters in Unity 5, discover and test how mass affects objects, and learn how to apply physics materials to an object.

Learn how to set up a quick collisions layering system in Unity 5 so that you can pair together collisions you want to happen together, and disable others.

Create and control an object's dynamic movement via script by creating force in game development software Unity 5. Learn how in this lesson!

Nicholas from Simon Sez IT shares how to set up a trigger, then shows how to write the C# code for OnTriggerEnter, OnTriggerExit, and OnTriggerStay.

Learn the basics of collisions in Unity 5, discover how to add force at a position, and review a practical exercise to help you practice collisions.

Arrays used in Unity help collect variables together in a manageable form. Learn how C# code handles arrays, as well as how to declare an array in this lesson.

Learn how lists differ from arrays, as well as how to declare a list, add to a list, and continuously add to and subtract from lists in this Unity 5 lesson.

Looping is an extremely useful way of handling game data in Unity 5. In this lesson from Learn to Program, discover the for loop and foreach loop.

Learn how to use Linq classes in Unity 5 to organize your data and figure out calculations like minimums, maximums, averages, and more—no parsing required.

In this Unity 5 lesson, learn how to generate a collection of game objects in a scene through C# code; then practice what you've learned with a lab exercise.

Bring your games to life with sound! Get an introduction to audio in Unity, compare its 2D and 3D audio features, and discover how to add an Audio Listener.

Discover how to make and configure a new audio source component from an object in Unity 5, and learn a couple 3D sound settings, like roll-off and Doppler.

Learn the essentials of audio scripting in Unity 5 by discovering how to play a single audio file, as well as multiple audio files from one game object.

Light your scenes exactly how you want with dynamic lighting capabilities offered in game development software Unity 5. Learn to use lighting in this lesson.

Discover a simple way to create a material; then see how to configure the three most important parts of a it: the diffuse map, normal map, and specular map.

While the process of adding transparency in Unity 5 is relatively easy, it does require a bit of finagling. Learn how it's done in this lesson.

Learn how to generate a normal map, use an alpha channel, and configure a material's settings to create a textured material for a scene in Unity 5.

Ready to create virtual game characters that spin, jump, and run? Bring life to your characters with Unity 5's animation system, the Mecanim.

Animator controllers are needed to call and play animations within Unity, and in this lesson, Nicholas from Learn to Program demonstrates how to set one up.

Explore the Unity 5 Mecanim interface, discover how to add animations into the animator controller, and see how to make a default animation clip.

Unity 5 offers parameters that drive your game character's animations, including floats, integers, Booleans, and triggers. Learn about them in this lesson.

Alternate between default and input-based animations seamlessly with animation transitions available in Unity 5. Learn how to create them in this lesson!

Now that you have a solid understanding of animator controllers in Unity 5, learn how to call scripts to create a public animator type of variable.

Nicholas from Learn to Program explains some of the primary export options available within Unity 5. Get your game to an audience in a playable format!

Get advice for configuring the quality settings of games developed in Unity 5, and explore some of the most important settings for web, standalone, and iOS.

There are a few final steps to take before you can finish creating a playable version of a game developed in Unity 5. Look at them in this lesson.