Without a doubt, there has never been a better time to become an indie developer. Gamers around the world are constantly on the lookout for new entertaining content, and the pressure of sheltering in place due to the 2020 pandemic makes the demand for innovative game ideas especially intense. Enter the Official Unity Game Development Bundle, which was designed to get even newbie coders on the right track toward building 2D or 3D games in the Unity engine.
Game development is one of those projects that many people want to do, but few know where to start. In these informative videos, Jonathan Weinberger, founder of GameDevHQ, informatively condenses over 10 years of C# knowledge into a series of lifetime-access lectures. The Official Unity Game Dev Bundle combines four guides, each containing between 110 and 160 lectures, with the goal of crafting a multi-platform game in Unity. No prior coding experience is required.
The right game idea can take off and become a major indie success story, sometimes without warning. With a combined value of $800, this bundle is currently being sold for only $25, a 96% discount. At that price, a developer could create a game that sells for only $5 a pop, or even a free game supported by Unity Ads, and come back with a profit relatively quickly.
The four series of lectures can be watched in any order, but newbie coders will likely start with The Ultimate Guide to Game Development with Unity 2019, which will walk students through the basics of coding in C#, and present them with 30 interactive challenges to test what they have learned. They may then make use of The Unity C# Survival Guide, which walks students through intermediate C# concepts and goes into how to develop a game from the ground up. Between these two segments, a student can learn everything they need to be a job-ready C# developer.
Another important detail of game development is how it looks. The Ultimate Guide to Cinematography with Unity will walk students through the creation of a stealth game, and they will come away with 4 completed cinematic cut-scenes. By getting familiar with the latest Unity features such as Timeline and Cinemachine, as well as cutting-edge lighting techniques and material channels, students will be able to make their dream game come to life with great cinematography.
To tie the whole thing together, there is The Ultimate Guide to 2D Mobile Game Development, which shows students how to create a 2D dungeon escape adventure, complete with abstract classes and interfaces, and publish it on a mobile platform. All these guides together should be enough to help any newbie coder hit the ground running, but advanced coders as well will surely find value in being up-to-date with the latest Unity tools.
The Official Unity Game Development Bundle is available in the GameRant store now.
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