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)
  • 3D First Person Movement with character controller.
  • 3D Third Person Movement with character and camera movement through Cinamachine.
    • Cinemachine + Input System: how to make Cinemachine work with the Input System. Good for adding a Free Look Camera to a Roll a Ball game.
  • 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 Tutorial for camera movement
  • Working with Cinamachine Cameras
  • Controlling camera behavior
  • follow player
  • look
• AI and Pathfinding
  • NavMeshes and AI pathfinding by Brackeys.
    • Pathfinding for AI: Unity tutorial of using the NavMesh, NavMeshAgents, and for basic navigation of a NavMesh. 
    • Making Dynamic Navmesh for AI. This tutorial is the next video from the video above. It covers how to make objects changing the NavMesh during the game. 
    • Linking NavMeshes and adding animation. Continue with the series above to link NavMeshes together and add animation to your character. 
  • Patrolling AI. Add waypoints to an enemy patrol on a NavMesh. Video by Lofi Dev.
  • Beginner Guide to AI: Tutorial for 2D AI including: Follow, Shoot and Retreat, Patrol, Pathfinding, Line of Sight by Blackthornprod.
  • 2D Pathfinding for Enemy AI. Have AI find a path to the player in 2D from Brackeys.
• Blender to Unity
  • Importing Blender models and textures into Unity from UGuruz 
  • How to bake procedural textures in Blender and then export them to Unity from UGuruz
  • Moving Blender Animations to Unity from . Move your Blender character animations into Unity. This video does not go into details on how to move the rig itself into Unity. 
  • Moving Blender Rigs into Unity from CGDive. This is a tutorial series, not just a single video. Bringing rigs and animation from Blender into Unity can be difficult. 
• 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
• 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
• WebGL: use WebGL to export your games so that you can play them across the Internet.
  • Itch.io is a site for hosting webgl games.
  • Simmer.io is another site for hosting webgl games.Be