Unity | C# – The complete game development beginners course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to the course – Is this course suitable for you ?

Lecture 2: Why Unity? Because its awesome

Lecture 3: Online learning tips – Finding the best way of learning for you

Lecture 4: Join our community – How to join our server

Chapter 2: Follow the Light – 2D Game Creation

Lecture 1: Design and Time Management – Scheduling appropriately and realistically

Lecture 2: Brainstorming Ideas – How to create unique ideas for your games

Lecture 3: Colouring and Aesthetics – Picking the appropriate colours for each game

Lecture 4: Setting up Unity – Installing Unity Hub and a Unity editor

Lecture 5: Unity Interface – Understanding Unity's interface

Lecture 6: Programming time – Creating our first script

Lecture 7: Understanding Classes – An introduction to classes and how to use them

Lecture 8: If statements – Comparing values in our script with if statements

Lecture 9: Operators – What are operators and how to use them

Lecture 10: If statements 2 – A deeper look into if statements

Lecture 11: Declaration context – Understanding how declaration affects our code

Lecture 12: Transformations – Moving, Rotating and scaling our game objects through script

Lecture 13: Access modifiers for variables – A Deeper look at access modifiers of variables

Lecture 14: MonoBehaviour Base Class – Deriving key functions to our script

Lecture 15: Rigidbodies – Connecting our character to the physics engine of Unity

Lecture 16: Its Alive! – Capturing keyboard input through our script to move our character

Lecture 17: Creating our own methods/functions – The importance of functions

Lecture 18: Jump up and get down – Adding a basic jump and a double jump to our movement

Lecture 19: Understanding collisions – An overview of how collisions work in Unity

Lecture 20: Jump up and get down 2 – Extending our jump to something more interesting

Lecture 21: Techniques to communicate between scripts

Lecture 22: Lighting – How lighting can massively improve the quality of a scene

Lecture 23: Object Parenting – What it is and how we can use it

Lecture 24: Follow Camera – Make smooth camera that follows our character around

Lecture 25: Adding gems – Creating a gem that enables the colouring swap mechanic

Lecture 26: Collision function comparison OnTrigger vs OnCollision – When to use each one

Lecture 27: Prefabs – What are prefabs?

Lecture 28: Loops – How to use the for loop

Lecture 29: Evaluating collisions – Balancing movement with collision evaluation

Lecture 30: Animation – Adding animation to our gems

Lecture 31: Arrays – Exploring the usages of data structures

Lecture 32: Loops 2 – The variation of the for loop called foreach loop

Lecture 33: Ignoring Collision – Adding coloured gates that ignore collision of some colours

Lecture 34: Map Design – Ways to make a unique map design

Lecture 35: Lists – An alternative data structure to arrays

Lecture 36: Moving Gates part 1 – Make our gates moves around between points

Lecture 37: Moving Gates part 2 – Make our player move along with the moving gates

Lecture 38: Rotating Gates – Enable our gates to rotate based on time

Lecture 39: Changing Levels – Ways to switch between scenes/levels

Lecture 40: Creating collectibles and a User Interface to display them

Lecture 41: Static – Taking a look at a special method type called static

Lecture 42: Collectibles that help? – Making collectibles increase our light's radius

Lecture 43: Playtesting – Break your own game before everyone else

Lecture 44: Creating a main menu – Adding some much needed UI elements to our game

Lecture 45: Building our Game – Preparing our game for release

Lecture 46: Recapping – The lecture to rule them all

Chapter 3: Icy Waves – 3D Game Creation

Lecture 1: Game design and time management – Breaking our game down to small bits

Lecture 2: Project Templates – Creating our project and discussing templates

Lecture 3: Version control – What it is and why you MUST do it

Lecture 4: A new way to capture input – Reviewing and implementing the new input system.

Lecture 5: Fixing our Movement – Having a look at the properties of the rigidbody component

Lecture 6: Physic Materials – What are they and when to use them

Lecture 7: Personalizing Visual Studio – Changing the defaults to your likes

Lecture 8: Setting up our Camera – Make our camera and player rotate together

Lecture 9: Material – Colouring up our scene through materials

Lecture 10: Shooting activated – Adding the ability to shoot to our player

Lecture 11: While Loop – How to use the while loop

Lecture 12: Attack! – Create our enemies and make them chase the player

Lecture 13: Creating enemy spawn points – Set a spawn points that enemies will spawn from

Lecture 14: AI Special NavMeshAgent 007 – Upgrade and improve our enemies to special agents

Lecture 15: That Hurt! – Adding damage to both enemies and players

Lecture 16: Waves after Waves – Create waves of enemies

Lecture 17: Cursor Class – Locking our cursor while in game

Lecture 18: Adding Powerups – Triple Shooter

Lecture 19: Do while loop – A variation of the while loop

Lecture 20: Adding mechanics – Making Teleportation Portals

Lecture 21: Doctor Strange like – Allow our player to have their own personal portals

Lecture 22: Raycast – Exploring the many uses of raycasting

Lecture 23: Smooth transitioning of portals – Further improving the portal mechanic

Lecture 24: Coroutine – What is a coroutine?

Lecture 25: Adding audio – Making our game feel less dull with sound effects

Lecture 26: Keeping score – Tracking points gained based on kill count

Lecture 27: Levelling up our Character – Adding an actual model to our character

Lecture 28: Animator – How to use the Animator component to animate our characters

Lecture 29: Pickup Generator – Randomly spawn pickups around our map

Lecture 30: Switch Statement – A multiway branch statement

Lecture 31: Powerful and Good looking – Adding assets to our pickups

Lecture 32: Creating more pickups – Adding the freeze and indestructible pickups

Lecture 33: Implementing the functionality for the new pickups – Not just for the looks

Lecture 34: Particle Systems – Understanding particle systems

Lecture 35: Let it snow – Creating snow through particle systems

Lecture 36: Trail Renderer – Improving our visuals for shooting

Lecture 37: Terrain – Making custom terrain for our levels

Lecture 38: Adding UI – Building our User Interface

Lecture 39: Main Menu – Making a more interesting main menu screen

Lecture 40: Options Menu – Extending our menus with player options

Lecture 41: Saving data permanently – Highlighting ways to save data on a machine.