Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 25 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Oliver Carson
Rating
1 views
Course Overview
Learn how to jam out game prototypes FAST? This course covers techniques to accelerate an AMPLIFY your jamming process!
Ever wanted to take part in a game jam but don't know where to start?
Maybe you've got an idea that you want to get up and running quickly?
In Game Jams & Rapid Prototyping in Unity, we cover techniques and code to keep you focused on rapidly creating games not boilerplate code.
- Get prepped for creating your own prototypes at 48 hour game jams.
- Learn the pros, and pitfalls of creating a game with a heavy time constraint!
- How to form teams, and manage the idea generation process.
- Filling in art and audio when you're just a coder
We also cover making a full game jam prototype in just 3 hours of fully explained, code along exercises. Covering creating simple game logic, and a reusable framework to deal with common prototype functionality such as :
- Scoring
- Timing
- UI
- Gameflow
- And Audio
This course is suitable for people with basic to intermediate experience with Unity 3D who want to learn about making prototypes quickly.
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 14 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Preperation
- Section 3 Jam Session 01 : Creating basic game logic
- Section 4 Jam Session 02 : Triggers, Timers & Scoring
- Section 5 Jam Session 03 : Levels, UI & Gameflow
- Section 6 Jam Session 04 : Finishing Up & Polish
What You’ll Learn
- Rapidly prototype a game idea, and create a library of boilerplate code, and take part in Game Jams.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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PPanos Filippakos
I expected more details on how to assess project scale and requirements, as well as time management. A simple statement such as "create a vertical slice of the game", along with using placeholders, which is considered common practice, wasn't helpful at all. So, this is mostly an unfinished tutorial, since many steps for creating the final levels are missing, and even leave the code with a bug.
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AAndrew Hawkins
Very keen to look at the nuts and bolts for planning and conducting a game jam. This is excellent so far.
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SShweta Patil
It's really nice foundation course. If someone is starting from the scratch, this is the course I would recommend. It covers all the basics you need for prototyping. The key points mentioned in coding will help anyone in the long run.
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DDaniel Gledhill
A pretty good course with some good information, just potentially not titled correctly. The course feels more like a paint by numbers to make a unique racing game with some game jam tips thrown in. Still a lot of value here and I understand the instructors aim is to give re-usable code to enable prototyping, but something just feels incomplete for what the course is advertised for.
