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2023 Game Programmer Course

By Jason Weimann / May 10, 2023

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Unity Setup and Introduction

Lesson 0 – RESOURCES & LINKS

01: Intro to the Unity Game Engine

5 Topics | 1 Quiz

1A – Welcome & Introduction

1B – Game Engines and Unity Versions

1C – Unity Installation & Setup

1D – New Project Creation

1E – Unity Editor Overview

1 – Hub and Unity Editor

02: Art, Players, and Source Control

4 Topics | 2 Quizzes

2A – Importing Art

2B – Sprite Setup & Ground Tiling

2 – Sprite Art & Tiling

2C – Player Creation with Physics and Colliders

2C – Physics Basics

2D – Source Control Setup

03: Writing Player Code

5 Topics | 1 Quiz

3A – Player Script and Starting with Code

3B – Player Horizontal Movement

3C – Basic Jump

3D – Maximum Jump Time

3E – Serializing Fields

3B – Coding Basics

04: Raycasts, Physics, & Grounding

5 Topics | 1 Quiz

4A – Gizmos for Grounding

4B – IsGrounded with Raycast2D

4B – IsGrounded with Raycast2D

4C – Velocity Controls and Ground Platforms

4D – Jump Sprites

4E – Sprite Direction and Method Creation

05: Sprite Animation (Type 1)

3 Topics

5A – Animation with Walking

5B – Animator Transitions and Conditions

5C – Blending and Caching with Animator

06: The physics of Jumps & Sound

6 Topics

6A – Physics Layers and Capsule Colliders

6B – Left and Right Foot Gizmos

6C – Left and Right Raycasts

6D – Double Jump

6E – Jump Sound Effects

6F – Pitch changing with Conditional Assignment

07: Physics Materials and Reactions

4 Topics

7A – Bouncy Spring

7B – Spring Visualization

7C – Cinemachine Camera

7D – Spring Sound

8: Environment Building

5 Topics

8A – Backgrounds

8B – Solid Clear Color and Deep Ground

8D – Water Splash SFX

8E – Environment and Folders

09: Utilizing Prefabs

4 Topics | 1 Quiz

9A – Platform Prefabs

9B – More Grass Platforms

9C – Spring and Water Prefabs

9D – Spike Prefab

10: Review and Refactor

3 Topics

10A – Source Control with Plastic – Reviewing Our Project so far

10B – Script Review – Water Spring Spikes

10C – Player Script Review

11: Build Automation

2 Topics

11A – Build Automation

11B – Sharing – Playing – and Disabling for Pricing

12: Enemy Creation

5 Topics

12A – Jumping Frog

12B – Flipping Frog

12C – Killer Frogs

12D – Variable Jump Frog Prefab

12E – 3D Frog SFX

13: Scene Development – Level 2

4 Topics

13A – Level 2

13B – Snow Graphics and Prefabs

13C – Slipping on the Snow

13D – Slippery Code

14: Scene Development – Menu

3 Topics

14A – Menu Scene and TMP

14B – LoadLevelButton

14C – Generating Art for Backgrounds

15 :New Input System with Player Input

5 Topics | 1 Quiz

15A – New Input System with Playerinput

15B – Player Prefab

15C- Jump Action

15D – Multiplayer with PlayerInputManager

15E – Level 1 with InputManagerPrefab

16: Scoring & Coin Interaction

4 Topics

16B – Coin SFX

16C – PlayerPanel

16D – PlayerCanvas

17: Game Management & PlayerData

4 Topics

17A – PlayerData

17B – GameManager Singleton

17C – GameManager Binding

17D – Serializable PlayerData

18: Damage, SFX, & Impacts (with Lava)

4 Topics

18A – Lava Prefab

18B – TakeDamage Stub

18C – Damage Knockkback

18D – Hit Sfx and Death Fix

19: Nested Prefabs & Player UI

5 Topics

19A – Nested Player Panel Prefabs

19B – Basic Health Binding

19C – Coin Events

19D – Health Changed Event

19E – More with Events

20: GameManager and PlayerInputManager

6 Topics

20A – GameManager and PlayerInputManager

20B – New Game Button and AddListener

20C – GameData

20D – Single Saved Game

20E – AllGamesList

20F – Multiple Saved Games

21: Saved Game Management

5 Topics

21A – NewGamesList

21B – Delete Game Button

21C – Confirmation Dialogs

21D – Debugging with Breakpoints

21E – Menu Cleanup and Memory Consideration

22: Effectors & Gizmos (in the sandbox)

5 Topics

22A – Sandbox

22B – One Way Platforms

22C – Manually Moving Platforms

22D – Manually Moving with Gizmos

22E – Sticking Moving Platform

23: Particle Systems, Collisions, & Vector3.Dot

4 Topics

23B – Brick Break Particles

23C – Brick Particle Cleanup

23D – Player Stop

24: Lasers & Switches

6 Topics

24A – Yellow Laser Switch

24B – Laser Line Renderer

24C – Laser Responsiblities

24D – Dynamic Laser Hits

24E – Laser Destruction

24F – RedBricks

25: Enemy Creation – Ladybug

5 Topics

25A – Ladybug

25B – Turnaround Bug

25C – GizmoBug

25D – Downward Gizmo

25F – RayDown

26: Ladybug Laser Impacts & Bouncing Physics

5 Topics

26A – LadyLaser

26B – Laser Star

26C – Turnaround Mask

26D – Ignore From Top

26E – BouncePlayer

27: Create Concept Art & Turn it into game art

5 Topics

27A – Concepts

27B – Importing

27C – DogSetup

27D – Dog Laser

27E – Dog Assignment

28: Character Animation (Type 2)

4 Topics

28A – Player Robot Art

28B – Robot Animations

28C – Animator Swap

29: Weapon Systems – Blaster

4 Topics

29A – Blaster

29B – BlasterShot

29C – PlayerDirection

29D – Facing Left

30: Intro to Interfaces – Abstracting Damage Types

4 Topics

30A – Blasting Dogs Only

30B – Bricks and Bugs

30C – ITakeDamage

30D – Explosion on Impact

31: Multiplayer Layers

3 Topics

31A – Multiplayer Layers

31B – TargerGroupCamera

31C – MultiplayerCameraSetup

32: Performance Profiling & Generic Pooling

5 Topics

32A – Shot Performance

32B – Pooling Intro

32C – Blaster Pool

32D – PoolManager

32E – Generic Pooling

33: Blaster Animation & Ducking Lasers

5 Topics

33A – Blaster Animation

33C – DuckBehavior

33D – Moving Lasers

33E – Ducking the Laser

34: Inventory & Item Control

5 Topics

34B – Blaster

34C – Bad Key

34D – PlayerInventory

34E – Key Switching

35: Inventory & Weapon System Integration

4 Topics

35A – BlasterItem

35B – Controller Duck

35C – Stealing Items

35D – BreakPoints

36: Enemy Creation – Bomb Launching Cat

5 Topics

36A – Cat Animation

36B – CatBomb Spawning

36C – CatBomb Script

36D – ShootAnimationWrapper

36E – CatBomb Script Reload Challenge

37: Intro to Timeline – Signals, Audio, ToggleLock

5 Topics

37A – Level Setup

37B – Timeline

37C – Signals

37D – Audio and Activation

37E – ToggleLock Events

38: Creating Dynamic Encounters (Boss Fight!)

7 Topics

38A – Boss Bee

38B – Bee Cinematic

38C – Lighting Platforms

38D – Bee Encounter

38E – Lightning Player Damage

38F – MultiLightning

38G – Fixing with AI

39: Advanced Platformer Player Controller

7 Topics

39A – Platformer Player Planning

39B – CheckGrounding

39C – Raycast Performance

39D – Side Detection

39E – Wall Detection

39F – Using Wall Detection

39G – Stopping Movement

40: Creating Dynamic Encounters Pt 2 – Damage, Random, AI, & Generics + Lasers!

7 Topics

40A – Beeing Damaged

40B – Linear Movement

40C – TransformGrabBag (with AI)

40D – Generics

40E – Move, Idle, Wait

40F – Bee Laser

40G – Bee Damage Challenge

41: Creating Dynamic Encounters Pt 3 – Floods, Priority & Death Physics

7 Topics

41A – Animator Transition Priority

41B – Death Physics

41C – Layers and Contact Filters

41D – Flood Water

41E – Smooth Water

41F – OverlapPoint & WaterFlags

41G – Water Flow Animation

42: Advanced DataBinding (Part 1)

5 Topics

42A – GameManagerEditor

42B – DefaultData

42C – Multiscene Player Persistence

42D – Level and Coin Data

42E – LevelSwitchData Challenge

43: Advanced Databinding (Part 2) – COMING SOON

2 Topics

43A – Binding with Generics

43B – Generic Laser Switches

44: Inventory + DataBinding = Persistence (Player Inventory Persistence)

3 Topics

44A – Binding PlayerInventory

44B – MultiScene Persist

44C – Abstract Classes

6 Topics

45A – Level Drawing

45B – TileMaps and Pallets

45C – Environment Tiles

45D – Water and Lava

45E – One Way Platforms

45F – Castle Colliders

46: Interaction System

2 Topics

46B – Interaction System

5 Topics

47A – Splines Package

47B – Spline Animation

47C – Spline Attack Points

47D – Fish Script

47E – Spikes!

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