Building a Pac-Man Arcade Style Game In Unity

Building a Pac-Man Arcade Style Game In Unity, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.05, with 37 lectures, based on 29 reviews, and has 231 subscribers.

You will learn about Build a full dot-eater classic arcade style game using C# and the Unity game engine Learn how to create a fully playable, animated character using Unity Develop enemy pathfinding AI logic that lets the enemies chase the player through the maze Create power-ups that give the user bonus points and let the user eat enemies for a short period of time Code a scoring system that keeps track of high score across play sessions Take your game development and C# skills to the next level using professional Object-Oriented game programming techniques Write a progressive level system Create an animated cutscene using Unity’s animation tools like the Animator and Timeline Editor This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone excited about building a classic arcade-style game or Anyone that wants to improve their Unity and C# skills or Beginners that want to build a full game step-by-step and have something cool that they can play and learn from It is particularly useful for Anyone excited about building a classic arcade-style game or Anyone that wants to improve their Unity and C# skills or Beginners that want to build a full game step-by-step and have something cool that they can play and learn from.

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Summary

Title: Building a Pac-Man Arcade Style Game In Unity

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.05

Number of Lectures: 37

Number of Published Lectures: 37

Number of Curriculum Items: 37

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 37

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Build a full dot-eater classic arcade style game using C# and the Unity game engine

Learn how to create a fully playable, animated character using Unity

Develop enemy pathfinding AI logic that lets the enemies chase the player through the maze

Create power-ups that give the user bonus points and let the user eat enemies for a short period of time

Code a scoring system that keeps track of high score across play sessions

Take your game development and C# skills to the next level using professional Object-Oriented game programming techniques

Write a progressive level system

Create an animated cutscene using Unity’s animation tools like the Animator and Timeline Editor

Who Should Attend

Anyone excited about building a classic arcade-style game

Anyone that wants to improve their Unity and C# skills

Beginners that want to build a full game step-by-step and have something cool that they can play and learn from

Target Audiences

Anyone excited about building a classic arcade-style game

Anyone that wants to improve their Unity and C# skills

Beginners that want to build a full game step-by-step and have something cool that they can play and learn from

This course will walk you through building an entire video game hands-on, and will take you step-by-step through the game development process.

Are you a fan of classic arcade dot-eater games? Want to learn how to make a “Snac-Man” character that can go through a maze gaining points, evading enemies, and clearing boards? Are you motivated to take your Unity and C# skills to the next level? Then this course is for you.

As a beginner, one of the hardest things about game development is knowing where to start and building a full game project. Understandably, this process can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. This course is meant to give you a hands-on, beginner-friendly approach to building a fun arcade-style game that you will be proud of. By developing the project featured in this course, you will be learning techniques that you can apply to your own personal game projects. Some of the core game development techniques this course will teach you are:

Keeping track of current score

Saving high score permanently across play sessions

Creating power-ups

Writing code to make the character move

Developing enemy AI with pathfinding capabilities

Building a progressive level system

Keeping track of the game state internally

Event driven programming

Creating animated cut scenes

Making a settings screen that lets the user customize elements of the gameplay

Essential C# game development skills such as obtaining user input, invoking actions, listening for events, utilizing PlayerPrefs to save game data across multiple sessions, creating an Editor script, and more!

By the end of this course, you will have a full game project you developed from the ground up! You will also have some more C# tips and tricks that you can add to your arsenal. If you want to learn game development or are aspiring to build a career in the game industry, then this course is for you!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Downloading and Installing Unity

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Download and Install Unity Hub

Lecture 3: Download and Install Unity

Lecture 4: Creating a Unity Project

Lecture 5: Editor Basics

Lecture 6: Project Overview

Lecture 7: Importing the Course Assets

Lecture 8: Section Summary

Chapter 3: Start Developing the Game

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating the Start Screen

Lecture 3: Layout the UI

Lecture 4: Building the Maze

Lecture 5: Adding the Dots and Power-Ups

Lecture 6: Player Chomp Animation

Lecture 7: Move Player Logic

Lecture 8: Creating the Base Eatable Class

Lecture 9: Coding the Dot and Power-Up Classes

Lecture 10: Getting the Player to Eat the Dots

Lecture 11: Score Logic

Lecture 12: High Score Logic

Lecture 13: Side Portal Logic

Lecture 14: Section Summary

Chapter 4: Coding the Core Game Logic

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Setting up the Level Progression

Lecture 3: Creating an Animated Cutscene

Lecture 4: Settings Screen

Lecture 5: Enemy AI Logic

Lecture 6: Player Caught Animation

Lecture 7: Player Power-Up Logic

Lecture 8: Snack Bonus Points Logic

Lecture 9: Tying Up Loose Ends

Lecture 10: Playing through the Final Product

Lecture 11: Section Summary

Chapter 5: Course Summary and Wrap-Up

Lecture 1: Course Summary and Wrap-Up

Lecture 2: FullProject (Course Resource)

Lecture 3: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Robert Gioia
Senior Solutions Architect | Android | iOS | Game Dev | C#

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