Learn storytelling with Unity! Explore how to make cutscenes, deal with shaders, work with animations, and more via free game storytelling tutorials.
When was the last time you played a game that was completely silent by design? From ambient background music, UI SFX, or even the sound of footfalls, sound plays an important role in game development. Sounds not only increase the atmosphere of the general game experience, but can also add necessary feedback to player interaction … Read more
Lighting is an often overlooked aspect of a game’s look. Whether a sunny day, quiet night, or dark dungeon, lighting plays a big role in aesthetics. It determines not only what players are seeing, but can add a layer of atmosphere to create a specific mood. After all, would a horror game that has no … Read more
These days, graphics for video games are pretty important – from AAA hits to even the smallest indie video games. When creating art assets, there are a lot of things to consider, such as art style, poly counts, and so forth. However, there is another important factor that affects all games: how these graphics are … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to Polybrush Prefab Painting In this lesson, we’re going to learn how to paint prefabs onto our mesh. In Polybrush, we can attach prefabs automatically to a mesh’s surface. Before we proceed, however, let’s make our mesh look more like a planet. In the sculpting tab, create some hills and valleys: Note that by holding down Control and using the scroll … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to Cinemachine and Timeline Cinemachine – Look At In this lesson, we’re going to look at Cinemachine. Cinemachine allows us to create more complex camera movements, tracking, and following targets by simple drag-and-drop methods. If you haven’t already installed the Cinemachine package from the Package Manager, refer to Lesson 3 – Project Setup. … Read more
Learning how to code can not only be personally rewarding, but can also have major impacts on your career – even if you don’t intend to be a programmer. However, how do you learn to code, especially if you’re looking at coding for beginner-level stuff? With the list below, we’ve compiled some of what we … Read more
Game feel, or ‘game juice’ refers to the tactile virtual sensation experienced when interacting with video games, which decides how fun or engaging the second-to-second play of the game is. It is often a combination of many different aspects, including how quickly your character’s animation plays in response to control input and how much audiovisual … Read more
You can access the full course here: Shader Graph for Beginners In this short web class, we will learn to use the Shader Graph in Unity. Before beginning, please note that this feature is only available in the Lightweight Render Pipeline or the High Definition Render Pipeline. For information on setting up projects with the … Read more
Introduction In this lesson we will explore how to use animations in a scene. This tutorial is a good step for those who have read the tutorial on creating animations. Which you can view here. However, no prior knowledge of animation is required. The scripts for this lesson can be downloaded Setting up the project … 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
