Intro to Video Game Development in Unity
Why are video games more important today than ever? How can video games stimulate learning, creativity, community, and engagement? Dive into the Unity game engine and create simple code in C#. You’ll walk away with a minigame in progress, an understanding of basic game principles, and the resources to turn your game vision into reality.
Things You'll Learn
Navigating Unity: We'll explore the most popular engine for building cross-platform games.
C# Scripting: We'll explore the code behind game mechanics.
Design Principles: We'll look into what makes a cohesive brand, game, and play experience that will leave users with distinct emotion. We'll also identify tools and resources to design and create from scratch.
Prereqs: Intermediate knowledge of any programming language. Coming to the course with Unity downloaded and installed (pick a long term support / LTS release) will help speed up the process.
About the Instructors
UVA student entrepreneurs building video games to teach special education kids quantitative skills at Squiggly. The team includes two UVA alum and one UVA 4th year, all Forge alum: Launch SWE 2018, Node Fall 2019, Node Spring 2020, Node Pro Fall 2020, Node Lite PC Fall 2020, Envision Spring 2021. Check them out on LinkedIn: