📚 Learning Unity

Description

This repo contains the code for the 10 tutorials I followed to learn the basics of Unity. On average, I spent 1-3 days making each game.

Quick Tip

It is important to choose a tutorial that goes at a pace that matches your current knowledge level. Choosing a tutorial that is too difficult is like training for a marathon by running 20 miles on the first day. You won't get far and will be demotivated very quickly.

I learned this lesson when I started Sebastian Lague's Procedural Terrain Generation series. It took my 3-4 days to complete 14/21 tutorials. This was a slow pace for me and I was starting to get frustrated with my lack of quick progress.

After taking a step back to think about my pacing, I realized I was trying to learn too much too quickly. If I could go back in time, I would've done this as my 9th or 10th tutorial (once I felt more comfortable with Unity) instead of doing it as my 5th one.

Flappy Bird

• GMTK's Flappy Bird Tutorial
• First real introduction to Unity.
• Teaching style was very intuitive and helped me understand the basics.
• Implemented extra functionality suggested in the video.
• Difficulty: Easy

Platformer

• Coding in Flow's Platformer Tutorial
• Helped me relearn some of the concepts from GMTK's tutorial.
• Also learned about Unity specific keyboard shortcuts like QWERT.
• Difficulty: Easy

3D Platformer

• Coding in Flow's 3D Platformer Tutorial
• First 3D project with Unity, tutorial is pretty straight-forward.
• Difficulty: Easy

Procedural Planets

• Sebastian Lague's Procedural Planet Generation Tutorial
• Perhaps I was a bit too ambitious with this one.
• Really good tutorial series, but is a pretty advanced.
• Ran into some bugs as I tried to set up the planet shader.
• Difficulty: Medium-Hard

Procedural Terrain Generation

• Sebastian Lague's Procedural Terrain Generation Tutorial
• Completed 14/21 tutorials in the series.
• Really good tutorial series, but is a pretty advanced.
• Difficulty: Hard

Gradient Editor

• Sebastian Lague's Gradient Editor Tutorial
• Started getting into building editor tools after this one.
• Difficulty: Easy

Field of View Visualization

• Sebastian Lague's FOV Visualization Tutorial
• Completed 2/3 tutorials in the series.
• Ran into issues setting up the shader in the 3rd tutorial.
  • I was using URP, but the tutorial used SRP.
• Difficulty: Easy-Medium

Shape Editor

• Sebastian Lague's Shape Editor Tutorial
• Difficulty: Easy-Medium

Curve Editor

• Sebastian Lague's 2D Curve Editor Tutorial
• Difficulty: Medium

Top Down Shooter

• Sebastian Lague's Top Down Shooter Tutorial
• Difficulty: Easy-Medium

A* Pathfinding

• Sebastian Lague's A* Pathfinding Tutorial
• Completed 4/10 tutorials in the series.
• Difficulty: Medium-Hard

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