Learn Unity! Explore how to make games with Unity, code specific game mechanics, work in different genres, and more via these Unity tutorials.
Introduction Since the release of Unity 2017.1 in the summer of 2017, Unity Technologies has made making 2D games incredibly easy and fast. In this tutorial, we will create a fully-featured 2D platformer. This project will incorporate a number of key topics including how to make cutscenes, how to quickly build and prototype a 2D … Read more
In an ideal world, exporting models from Blender into Unity for your 3D / virtual reality games should be a seamless, simple process. To be more precise, it shouldn’t require any thought or whatsoever. At first it feels like that is the case. You drag and drop a .blend file into Unity and the model … Read more
You can access the full course here: Publishing and Optimizing Mobile Games Unity Device Simulator Tutorial In this lesson, we’re going to be looking at the Device Simulator inside of Unity. Device Simulator is a package you can install as an alternative to the default Game view. It allows us to get a preview of … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to Game Development with Unity Unity Materials What is a Material? Materials define how an object looks. Is it metal, plastic, wood, rough, soft, translucent? Materials allow you to define the specific characteristics of an object. A car has a metallic material. A tree has a rough … Read more
When learning game development, people often wonder about what the best game engine is – in fact, we’ve done a whole entire article on the matter. In terms of versatility, power, popularity, and use in the industry – there are two that most people talk about though: the Unity game engine and the Unreal Engine. Answering … Read more
Meet Unity’s newest technology set to enhance the workflow for building designers, architects, and engineers: Unity Reflect. For the construction industry, BIM, or Building Information Modeling, has increasingly become a standard during all phases of creating a building – from planning the design all the way to completing the actual project in real-life. BIM models … Read more
Unity ML-Agents, is an open source toolkit developed by Unity to enhance a game’s AI with machine learning. Typically when developing an AI for a game, you’d check to see if a certain condition is true (i.e. can you see the player?) and then execute a certain action (i.e. attack). This form of AI works, … Read more
Havok, is a popular physics engine which can be found in many AAA games, and now it’s coming to Unity. So what does this mean? Well for many years, people have been asking for an alternative to Unity’s built in physics system. It can be limiting for some developers, who want better performance from larger … Read more
The Device Simulator is a package for Unity which can display your game on a number of different devices. This is so when you’re developing your game, you can see how it looks on mobile devices, consoles, and various other devices. The default Unity game window already has the ability to change the resolution and … Read more
In this tutorial series you’re going to learn how to handle huge worlds in Unity. When you have a game with a huge world (potentially infinite), you may face some problems due to the limited resources of the computers. For example, it is not possible to keep rendering the whole world every time, since this … Read more
