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Universitat Politècnica de València

Introduction to video game development with Unity

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Overview

Never before has the video game market been at a better time. There are currently many platforms available and the emergence of mobile devices has revolutionized the sector.

The existence of multiple platforms implies great challenges for developers in decision making, both in the choice of platforms and in the sizing of work teams.

One solution to these problems is to use a game engine, and without a doubt the most popular and used engine of the moment is Unity.

Unity is the most popular engine for reasons such as its powerful tools, its ability to generate games on more than 20 different platforms, its excellent learning curve and the hundreds of add-ons available to it developed by third parties.

Syllabus

  • Unit 1. Introduction to the environment
  • Unit 2. Unity Basics
  • Unit 3. Introduction to the game engine
  • Unit 4. Unity and the different platforms
  • Unit 5. Scripting
  • Unit 6. Unity in action

Taught by

Jordi Linares Pellicer

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4.7 rating, based on 51 Class Central reviews

4.8 rating at edX based on 5 ratings

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  • Anonymous
    The example that you will do in this course really teaches you well about Unity and gives enough knowledge to explore on your own afterwards. You have to turn the speed of the videos to 1.25x so it is at real speed, otherwise the video and audio is…
  • Anonymous
    This course is awesome! It starts from the very beginning assuming no previous experience in unity, it teaches alot of the basic concepts of unity in a clear way. However, keep in mind that this course does not teach concepts about graphics design ( such as making your own 3d models). Overall, it is an awesome beginner course thats very informative but at the same time wont kill you of boredom.

    Super recommend anyone to try this course out!
  • Anonymous
    As a complete beginner on Unity, I was quite worried about my understanding of this course. But Mr Linares is a wonderful teacher. He is really clear and takes his time to repeat several times each step in each lesson, helping us better handle the c…
  • Anonymous
    This course starts with basic elements and explains it well but then goes deeper very fast and start showing memorized things, it is hard to understand why codes work like that or why some codes and scripts needed to added different objects in diffe…
  • Anonymous
    It is a great basic course for game development, it is not only about Unity, but about what do develop a game is.
    It covers step bay step how to construct a basic game, but you can think in your own ideas to develop and make possible with some more practice.
    I do not have any knowledge of C#, but with the instructions received by the instructor, it was easy to learn the necessary commands to program the needed scripts.
    Recommended for those who want to enter in this world of creating, not only just games, but also educational resources.
    Thanks a lot for letting me to know as much as I did.
    Blessings!!!
  • Anonymous
    The example that you will do in this course really teaches you well about Unity and gives enough knowledge to explore on your own afterwards.
    You have to turn the speed of the videos to 1.25x so it is at real speed, otherwise the video and audio is unnaturally slow.
    There are no practical execises to be corrected. There are test autocorrected which is enough if you are a self-lerner type.
    There are two types of video lessons:
    -Theoretical lessons where the professor is reading the same slide that your are watching. It feels really slow because you can read at the same time
  • Anonymous
    Very good introduction course when you start from scratch without background like me. Thank you for the course.
  • Anonymous
    A really useful course to learn the essential basics of how to build a video game.
    The teacher is good and his explanations are clear and helpful.
    The example of a complete little game with all the building blocks really provides the foundation for you to start making your own games. I truly recommend
  • Anonymous
    The course helped me to learn the basics of Unity with the essential background on how and why things work the way they do in Unity, and how a small change can influence the game. More than one way was taught to execute a process and the pros and cons of each processes were discussed too. I am happy with what I have learned so far through this course and I definitely recommend this course for beginners!
  • Anonymous


    Very interesting and satisfying. The way he teach it simple that is easy to understand, which makes it easy to get a basic understanding, which is very necessary when we learn new disciplines, especially for me whose educational background is not engineering. I hope the follow-up course will be launched soon so that I can produce high-class video games. Thank you very much Mr. Jordi.
  • Anonymous
    Great course.

    Doing each item step-by-step with explanations of not just the "what" but also the "why" was excellent.

    The minor issue I had was with the sound file not being available to download, plus some of the instructor's word pronunciations were "interesting". :)
  • Anonymous
    The course has been very interesting and insightful, as it provided a good general and a basic understanding of the main elements of Unity. I hope an intermediate course is added to go deeper into the knowledge. Also, I would love participating in a beginner course of coding for C from the same university and professor. Thank you!
  • Jatin Kumar
    nice teaching how to build a game nice teacher also nice video because i will give my rating is 5 out of 5 thankyou sir
  • Anonymous
    the course was very helpful, and i learned a new skill through this course .Initially i thought it would be boring but as the course progressed through ,it became more and more interesting .Finally I could not leave a single day of this course except when I had my college exams
  • Anonymous
    As an introductory course it is very helpful in understanding fundamentals in unity programming without being overwhelmed.
    It helps a lot if you have a basic understanding of OOP and really opens up a new horizon to take on!
    Thank you very much for a wonderful teaching!
  • Anonymous
    Was very helpful, unlike other more disjointed classes you find on Unity basics, there is a step-by-step run-through of the different components for holistic learning. Would highly recommend to beginners at Unity who want to understand basic utilities of the game engine.
  • Anonymous
    Of course loved the course, its everything you need to get going but I really hoped to learn a bit more about adding animations and terrains. And I also want to thank you for this wonderful experience!!!!!
  • Anonymous
    Doing each item step-by-step with explanations of not just the "what" but also the "why" was excellent.

    The minor issue I had was with the sound file not being available to download, plus some of the instructor's word pronunciations were "interesting".
  • Gaurav Mishra
    The course was awesome as I started to have more interest in game development field. The course was explained really well and exercise were challenging as well. Thank you so much to the Edx and University team for developing this course
  • Anonymous
    This course was good, and kept me entertained while learning. It was overall simple and was easy to understand, and taught me a lot of things of unity. I took a week or so to complete, and I was impressed of the course
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