Starting 2D Game Development in Unity with C#

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How to use the Course Files

Lecture 3: Course Files

Chapter 2: Welcome to Unity

Lecture 1: What is Unity?

Lecture 2: Is Unity the right engine for me?

Lecture 3: Installing the Tools

Lecture 4: Tour of Unity

Lecture 5: The Unity Asset Store

Lecture 6: Prototyping a 2D Game in Unity

Lecture 7: Prototyping a 3D Game in Unity

Lecture 8: Layout the Unity Panels

Lecture 9: Game Design Theory – MonoBehavior

Chapter 3: Preparing to Build a Game

Lecture 1: Planning your Game

Lecture 2: Staying Motivated and on Scope

Lecture 3: Sourcing the Resources

Lecture 4: Preparing the files

Chapter 4: Building the Game

Lecture 1: What will you be creating

Lecture 2: Starting the Project and Creating a Staging Scene

Lecture 3: Create a test platform

Lecture 4: Build the player prefab – Animations and Physics

Lecture 5: Build the player prefab – Coding the player

Lecture 6: Create a Collectible Item for the Character to pick up

Lecture 7: Materials for Shader Effects

Lecture 8: Randomized Scenery

Lecture 9: Sorting Order

Lecture 10: Create a camera node with constraints

Lecture 11: Create a parallax background – Building the layers

Lecture 12: Create a parallax background – Coding the controller

Lecture 13: Fixing Issues between 2D and 3D Objects

Lecture 14: Create a game manager object

Lecture 15: Saving and loading game data

Lecture 16: Adding 2D Sound Effects

Chapter 5: Building the UI and Menus

Lecture 1: Menu Design Basics

Lecture 2: Create a timer and display it on screen

Lecture 3: Creativity challenge – Making levels

Lecture 4: Create a level select screen and transitions

Lecture 5: Handle win and loss events

Lecture 6: Create a level exit and kill zone

Lecture 7: Preparing the game for Distribution

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Where to go From Here?

Lecture 2: BONUS: Should you attend a local Unite Conference?