Since I had purchased a few Unity courses on Udemy, today I thought it might be a good time to download the dev kit. I saw you could start with Standard or you could include a starter kit with tutorials in the download. Might as well – can’t be a waste of time to get a soft introduction. I chose the tutorial using a Lego mini game – Lego are always fun.
I started it up and it has platforms and a minifig with some boxes of treasure or something. I entered play mode to experience the game as it exists now. Wander the islands / platforms and run through the boxes to capture them. Back to editor to up the speed of the minifig. Yay! First modification done.
Then, it tells you to place a platform and make some orientation adjustments. I was able to move it around and place it where I wanted. But then it asked me to rotate it. I am not sure if I actually was doing it wrong – not completing the tasked as the tutorial wanted. Or if I was having issues because my computer was sounding like it was going to take off.
I suspect the latter. I will have to download Unity on my laptop which I use as a desktop. It has a little more power to try out the Unity dev kit. Hopefully, it will all work out and I won’t have to upgrade just to explore Unity. Of course, since I love also playing video games – an upgrade wouldn’t really be going to waste. 🙂
Tag: developing
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Unity – 1st baby steps
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Making a game – experimentation with Unity
The other day I was browsing online and ended up looking at how to make a game. Of course, Unity is one of the platforms one can create games with. It allows 2D or 3D. I figured why not?!? I went to Udemy.com and they were selling several Unity courses for less than $15 each. I signed up for three and will be starting them soon.
I am a little nervous. My world in the past went from web development to mostly backend java. So I know I can program – but can I make something fun? I guess I will find out! I will document my progress and share my thoughts during the journey.
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How do you go from idea to game?
People hear that I am a programmer and they always tell me that I should make an app. So easy! Until now I really haven’t had any ideas for apps or games. Now I have a few. The next step is to actually execute on one of them. To publish a game I need ambition, time, and knowledge.
I have a been a web developer in the past but have been doing backend Java programming for that last 4 years. That is along time in programming world. I don’t know anything about game development. It is hard to have ambition, if I don’t know what I am doing. To learn a new tech takes time – time I would love to use actually just creating something.
Recently, I have been experimenting with React.js to make a word game. So far seems fairly straight forward. And pretty suited to a word game and grid set up. Also, there are lots of websites and resources online to google and find how to do a task. Great!
But if I want to do something more graphical – I have NO idea where to start. Also, I think I have analysis paralysis – there are too many choices, so it is very hard to decide which one. Do I go with Unity? Can I do other things with React? Other JS frameworks or Python or something else ??
I don’t want to make the next Call of Duty – those take tons of people and tons of money. I just want to make something fairly simple – a single game board with different levels.
I would love to learn on one of those games that teaches children programming but some of those are only with blocks. Learning with blocks to put together scenarios are so great but maybe overly simple for me. Some of the video courses on Udemy or other platforms are very dry – so it is hard to stay motivated.
Does someone have any ambition they can give me?