Learn how to make game art! Explore aspects such as 3D model importing, shaders, lighting, animation, and more via free game art tutorials.
You can access the full course here: Explore Storytelling for Games The Protagonist In this lesson, we’re going to be going over the protagonist. In storytelling– in movies, books, games, pretty much every storytelling narrative has a protagonist. Who is the protagonist? The main character of a story In video games, you normally play as the protagonist. The more story-focused a game is, … Read more
Over the course of this article, we’re going to introduce you to the topic of game design and help you understand both the technical and career aspects available to game designers. Game design is not only a foundation of every single video game, but a fascinating topic that involves a lot of different facets you … Read more
You can access the full course here: Explore Storytelling for Games Three Act Structure In this lesson, we will go over quests quickly and how they can be used to drive your story and how the quests can be structured to tell your story. What are Quests? Quests, missions, jobs, etc. These are the tasks that … Read more
Making video games isn’t all about programming. In fact, the average consumer never even sees the programming that goes under the hood – even as essential as that programming is. Do you know what they do see though? The game art. Unless you’re making a text-based game, graphics (i.e. the game art) are what gives … Read more
Godot 4.0 is the next major update for the Godot game engine. In January 2018, Godot 3.0 was released which introduced many new features such as a new rendering engine and improved asset pipelines. With the alpha release of Godot 4.0 being aimed for 2021, similar major advancements are to be expected. Vulkan Rendering Engine … Read more
We are stoked to announce the launch of our free ebook Unity Programming for Human Beings, authored by game development experts Jesse Glover, Pablo Farias Navarro, Renan Oliveira, and Tim Bonzon, in collaboration with Daniel Buckley. In over 230 pages of awesomeness, the book starts from zero and covers all the way to building simple 2D and … Read more
So, you’ve got your brilliant video game idea that you just can’t wait to turn into an actual game and get into the game development process. You start searching around on the internet (something you will likely continue to do) and maybe you come across a tutorial about How to Make a Game. In it, … 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
One of the most difficult aspects of game design to get into is narrative design. To be frank, there just aren’t that many jobs for a narrative designer in video games compared to adjacent fields like level design, game writing, systems design, tutorial design, and so on. As a result of this, there are limited … 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
