Welcome to the webpage for the Buutti Game Dev Academy course. The aim of the course is to teach basics of Unity, C# and game development.
The course is divided into three stages, with the stages divided into modules. Modules are approximately a week long. Topics are arranged into “books” whose chapters are introduced below.
The moon cycle 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕 tells how done the material for the corresponding chapter is!
Links to Game Dev Academy 2023 example repositories
- Game Dev Academy 2023 3D examples
- Game Dev Academy 2023 2D examples
- Module 1 example solution (Clock)
- Multiplayer Arena (Stage 2: Challenge 1)
- Course materials (this site)
Stages
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Module 1 | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 1 | Module 2 | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 1 | Module 3 | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
Books
About Unity
Unity Basics
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | What is Unity? | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 1 | The Unity Interface | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 2 | Unity’s Building Blocks | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 3 | Assets & Prefabs | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 4 | Scripting Gameobjects | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
Unity Advanced
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delayed actions | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 2 | Scriptable objects | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 |
| 3 | Events | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 |
Unity Cookbook
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | ||||
| 2D basics | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Input handling | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Transform | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Collision | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Physics | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| II | ||||
| Particle system | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| UI | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Audio | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Scenes | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| III | ||||
| Tilemaps | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| 2D animation | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Pathfinding | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| IV | ||||
| 3D basics | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 | |
| Blender 3D | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 | |
| 3D animation | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Input system | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Saving and loading | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 | |
| Building an executable | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌓 |
About programming
Programming
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Introduction to Game Programming | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 1 | Variables | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 2 | Conditionals | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 3 | Functions | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 4 | Loops | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 5 | Arrays and Lists | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 6 | Classes and Methods | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 7 | Special Types | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌓 |
| 8 | Game Programming Patterns | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 |
| Best practices | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Using Generative AI for programming | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
Math
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Useful Math Functions | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 1 | Vectors | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 2 | Forces | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 3 | Interpolation | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 4 | Sinewaves | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 |
| 5 | Math classes | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 |
Tooltips
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VS Code Setup | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Using VS Code | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌓 | |
| Unity Packages | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 |
Project management
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Git setup | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 1 | Git basics | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 2 | Git continued | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| 3 | GitHub tools | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 |
| 4 | Scrum | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
| Git cheat sheet | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌕 |
Game Development
| Slides | Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playtesting | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Tools | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Game Design | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌔 | |
| Game Industry | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌓 | |
| Accessibility | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌓 | |
| Gamification | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌓 | |
| Teamwork | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 | |
| Publishing on Itch.io | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌒 | |
| Publishing on Steam | 🎞 | 📖 | 🌑 |
Code example repositories
Code examples are in different repositories. Links to repositories below, including the lists of lectures that the repositories contain the examples about.
ProgrammingExercises
ProgrammingExercises2D
DungeonCrawler
2DTopDownShooter
- 2D basics
- Tilemaps
- 2D animation
- Pathfinding
- Interpolation (smooth camera move with lerp)
- Dialogue system
MultiplayerArena
- 4-player multiplayer
- Pausing
- Scene manager & Game manager singletons