GD Skills Tutorials

You can also do tutorials by specific skill that you wish to learn rather than by doing a larger project. These are good for students with prior Unity knowledge, not necessarily good for beginning students. 

• Game Objects Basics
  • What are they?
  • Transforming
  • Child/ Parent transforming
  • Sprite Renderer
  • Components
• Character movement
  • Using the new Player Input System: Unity Tutorial
  • New Unity Input System (text-based)
  • First Person Movement with character controller.
  • Object rotation. This is different than moving a character. 
  • 2D Movement. Basic tutorial from Brackeys. 
• Animation
  • Basic Animation and the Animator
    • 2D Animation: creating, Animator, and scripting by Brackeys: good quick tutorial to get you going with animations, the animator and code for animations.
    • Introduction to 3D Animation Systems by Unity. This is a giant hours-long tutorial that covers everything regarding animation from creating the animations to setting up the animator to creating code to control the animator. 
    • Working with animation and animations: 2018 by Unity: short tutorial for creating quick, short animations.
  • Rigging
    • Rigging a sprite with the 2D animation kit. – Unity
    • Working with Animation Rigging (3D) – Unity 
    • Animation Rigging in Unity – Brackeys
  • Sprite sheet to animations
    • Introduction to Sprites and Sprite Sheets – Unity
    • SpriteShapes: an alternative to grid sprite sheets. – Unity
    • Sprite sheet creation tools
      • LeshyLabs: good tools to test sprite sheets and tile maps
      • Make a sprite sheet using TexturePacker for Unity. 
      • Make a sprite sheet in Photoshop for Unity games
• Level, object and area design
  • TileMaps
    • Introduction to Tilemaps
    • Hexagonal and Isometric Tiles
    • Getting Started with 2D Tiles and Tilemap
  • Probuilder (Blender inside of Unity)
    • Probuilder Introduction
  •  Terrain
    • Introduction to Terrain Editor
• Spawning and re-spawning
  • Spawn objects anywhere in 3D
  • 2D endless runner spawning
  • Respawn player 2D platformer
  • Respawn checkpoints in 2D platformer
• Projectiles
  • Launching Projectiles
• Camera movement
  • Cinemachine Introduction for camera movement 
  • Working with Cinamachine Cameras
  • Controlling camera behavior
  • follow player
  • look
• Particle System
  • Getting Started with Particle System
  • Create a new Particle effect
• Prefabs
  • Prefab Intro
• Programming
  • Junior Programming Pathway: Learn programming in Unity
  • Introduction to Visual Scripting
• User Interface / OSD
  • Simple UI Setup
  • Making UI Look Good
• Scene Management
  • Working with Multiple Scenes
  • Scene Management Full tutorial on the scene management tool
  • Creating a Start Menu
  • Cutscenes and Trailers 
• Lighting
  • Working with Lighting in Unity
  • Lighting in Unity – Brackeys
• Inventory Systems
  • Create a simple inventory system: CodeMonkey 
  • Create a complex inventory system: Game Dev Guide
  • Free Item and Inventory System from Unity Asset Story
• Game Design and Difficulty
  • Basic Principles of Game Design – Brackeys 
  • Difficulty in Video Games – Brackeys
  • Storytelling in Video Games – Brackeys
•  AI
  • Pathfinding for AI
• Audio
  • Beginner Audio in Unity
• Timeline
  • Timeline Introduction: learn how Timeline is used to create cinematic sequences in Unity. 
• Universal Render Pipeline
  • Up and Running with URP: optimize your graphics and game with URP