How to Make Your Own Game Totally for Free
Develop a video game and making it fulfill the goal of “being played” by many people, can be an exhaustive and somewhat expensive task. Although if you and your team (or if you are “alone against the world”: p) are passionate about their respective activities, the “exhaustive” part will take second place, and starting from the fact that you have a computer and an internet connection, with this post we will make the “expensive” […]
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Manage your Information
When you’re developing a video game, keeping your project organized is essential to maintaining a consistent workflow and ensuring its completion. From game assets to marketing strategy, a clear folder structure will help you save time, minimize errors, and facilitate collaboration with your team. In this post, we’ll explore two folder organization approaches that cover both video game development using Unity 3D and the overall structure of your project on your computer.
Make Your First 3D Game
In this series of tutorials, we will learn how to easily create our first 3D game in Unity 😀 Unity Tutorials Level: Beginner.
1. Making a 3D Game
Today we will make our “First 3D Game” in Unity 🙂 To be more precise and familiarize yourself with the terms used in the world of video game development, in this tutorial we’ll create a “Third Person Character Controller” using the tools offered by the Unity 3D game engine. Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 1.1 Creating a New Project. Let’s create a new project in Unity version 6: Run Unity Hub on our computer. On […]
Getting Ideas to Create Incredible Video Games
Inspiration for creating an amazing video game doesn’t come out of nowhere. As developers, our challenge is to explore, experiment, and transform ideas into memorable experiences. In this post, We will share some strategies and practical tips to unlock your creativity and generate innovative concepts. 1. Explore Different Sources of Inspiration Immerse Yourself in Various Media Don’t limit your inspiration solely to other video games. Cinema, literature, music, and visual arts can offer unique […]
Document your game idea before you start
When you develop a video game it is very easy to get excited about an idea and want to start programming immediately. However, skipping documentation (which in the world of video game development is known as “Game Design Document” or “GDD”) can lead to serious problems: inconsistent mechanics, drastic changes in development, lack of direction and, in the worst case, an abandoned project (a very common evil among video game developers :s). Before writing […]
3. 2D Energy Explosion
We are going to create a simple but very impressive “2D Energy Explosion” effect in Unity using a Particle System. 🙂 Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 1.1 Creating a New Project. We are going to create a new project in Unity: Open Unity Hub in your PC. On the home screen, click on the “New” button . In the “Project name” field, type the name that you like the most for your project, we recommend […]
2. 2D Rain Effect
We are going to create a simple but very impressive “2D Rain” effect in Unity using a Particle System. 🙂 Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 1.1 Creating a New Project. We are going to create a new project in Unity: Open Unity Hub in your PC. On the home screen, click on the “New” button . In the “Project name” field, type the name that you like the most for your project, we recommend […]
2D Unity Visual Effects
In this tutorials series, we will learn how to easily create amazing Visual Effects for our own 2D games in Unity 😀 Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner.
1. 2D Liquid Blast
We are going to create a simple but very impressive “2D Liquid Blast” effect in Unity using a Particle System. 🙂 Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 1.1 Creating a New Project. We are going to create a new project in Unity: Open Unity Hub in your PC. On the home screen, click on the “New” button . In the “Project name” field, type the name that you like the most for your project, we […]
5. Operations with Variables
In this Unity Tutorial we will talk about “Access Modifiers”, how to implement them, and we will learn how to perform simple mathematical operations using “Variables” and “Constants”. Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 5.1 Access Modifiers. These “Modifiers” help us to define the accessibility that the Members of a Class will have (in other words, let us know who can see the Variables that we have created, or Methods, and so on). At this point, […]
4. Variables and Data Types
In this Unity Tutorial you will learn what “Variables” and “Constants” are, and the “Data Types” they can store (also, how to work with them within Unity and C#). Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 4.1 Variables and Constants. “Variables” and “Constants” can be defined as “computer memory sections reserved for storing data”. With “Variables”, the “stored data” can be known or not, fixed or changing (variable). With “Constants”, the “stored data” is fixed, known and […]
3. Knowing our Script
In this Unity Tutorial we will learn about the sections that set a Unity Script up, also we will know what a “Namespace”, a “Class”, an “Object” and “Methods” are (in order to get involved with the most common terms used when programming in C#). Unity Tutorial Level: Beginner. 3.1 Namespace. Let´s analyze our script “HelloWorld” (if you have doubts about how to create or open this file, you can see the previous post […]