Create a 3D Endless Runner from Scratch in Unity

Create a 3D Endless Runner from Scratch in Unity, available at $84.99, has an average rating of 4.65, with 43 lectures, 1 quizzes, based on 355 reviews, and has 4712 subscribers.

You will learn about How to use the Unity Mecanim system to create and trigger animation states on a character. How to design a graphical user interface with a main menu, pop-up windows and programmable buttons and sliders. How to program an infinite scrolling 3D platform world. How to implement background music and sound effects. How to create and spawn particle systems for magic spells, explosions and special effects. How to program a lives count and scoring system that saves the state. How to build an entire casual game from scratch. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner Unity students. or Intermediate users of Unity interested in working through an entire game project. or Game development students of all ages. It is particularly useful for Beginner Unity students. or Intermediate users of Unity interested in working through an entire game project. or Game development students of all ages.

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Summary

Title: Create a 3D Endless Runner from Scratch in Unity

Price: $84.99

Average Rating: 4.65

Number of Lectures: 43

Number of Quizzes: 1

Number of Published Lectures: 43

Number of Published Quizzes: 1

Number of Curriculum Items: 44

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 44

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to use the Unity Mecanim system to create and trigger animation states on a character.

How to design a graphical user interface with a main menu, pop-up windows and programmable buttons and sliders.

How to program an infinite scrolling 3D platform world.

How to implement background music and sound effects.

How to create and spawn particle systems for magic spells, explosions and special effects.

How to program a lives count and scoring system that saves the state.

How to build an entire casual game from scratch.

Who Should Attend

Beginner Unity students.

Intermediate users of Unity interested in working through an entire game project.

Game development students of all ages.

Target Audiences

Beginner Unity students.

Intermediate users of Unity interested in working through an entire game project.

Game development students of all ages.

Who doesn’t love a good endless runner? Did you know it’s the genre that reigns from the early platform games of Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers? From Canabalt to Temple Run to Subway Surfer, this casual game has been the pastime of many a gamer with a mobile device and a few moments to while away. But did you know there’s quite a bit of work that goes into such a game? Of course the scenery is repetitive, but did you know that it has to be constructed with pieces of the environment that can always fit together and be procedurally placed?

In this course, Penny will take you through all the stages of game development with C# and the Unity Game Engine using her internationally acclaimed Holistic teaching style and expertise from over 25 years teaching, researching and writing about games. Throughout the course you will follow along with hands-on workshops designed to teach you these core programming concepts that will take your games to the next level.  All assets including models, animations, textures and sounds are supplied.

The objective of this course is to teach you all you need to know to make your own game!

Learn how to program and work with:

Character and World Models

Character Animations

Procedural Infinite World Generation

Graphical User Interfaces

Pick-ups

Particle Systems

Background Music

Sound Effects

Content and Overview

The course begins with setting up the character and applying animations in the Unity mecanim system, before writing code to control them.  It continues step-by-step, going through the development of an infinite scrolling 3D world, including the use of the pooling and singleton design patterns. In these sections, obstacles such as fire and walls are added which the character is programmed to jump over and destroy. Thereafter, a graphical user interface (GUI) is put together in Unity’s canvas system, where you will learn about alignment, fonts and screen resolutions as well as how to program button presses, sliders and create pop-up windows.  Next, particle systems are investigated as a means of providing some special effects and several are constructed from scratch for magical spells and explosions.  Finally, background music and sound effects are covered, as is controlling the sound of each from the GUI.

What students are saying about Penny’s courses:

She is the best teacher ever in this platform.

Most instructors are very smart people. Some are good at teaching and some are not. Penny is great at describing complex concepts without going down a dark cerebral rabbit hole that so many instructors feel obligated to do. It’s like they need to demonstrate their knowledge by explaining every tiny aspect. Penny does not go there. She explains things clearly but does not overwhelm the student with more than they need to know. There is only so much most people can absorb in one sitting. You need to study, then you need to practice and then more study. I have taken most of her classes and I recommend them all.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Student Community

Lecture 3: Contacting H3D

Lecture 4: FAQs

Chapter 2: Animating the Player

Lecture 1: Animating the Player Character

Lecture 2: Casting a Spell

Chapter 3: Creating an Endless Environment

Lecture 1: Platform Model Setup

Lecture 2: Turning Corners

Lecture 3: Creating a Platform Pool Part 1

Lecture 4: Creating a Platform Pool Part 2

Chapter 4: Adding the Perpetual Runner

Lecture 1: Scrolling the Environment

Lecture 2: Scrolling in the Y

Lecture 3: Spawning Platforms on the Move

Lecture 4: The Bounce Dilemma

Lecture 5: Adding a T-Intersection

Chapter 5: Adding Obstacles

Lecture 1: Fire Obstacles

Lecture 2: Adding Random Fires to Platforms

Lecture 3: Building a Wall

Lecture 4: Generating Magic

Lecture 5: Walled Platforms

Chapter 6: Adding a Graphical User Interface

Lecture 1: The Graphical User Interface

Lecture 2: The Main Menu Part 1

Lecture 3: The Main Menu Part 2

Lecture 4: The Main Menu Part 3

Lecture 5: Creating Menu Popups

Lecture 6: Finishing Popups

Chapter 7: Lives and Scoring

Lecture 1: Animating Coins

Lecture 2: Picking Up Coins

Lecture 3: Coin Resetting

Lecture 4: Programming Lives Count

Lecture 5: Displaying Lives

Lecture 6: Statistics

Chapter 8: Final Touches

Lecture 1: Fog

Lecture 2: Explosions

Lecture 3: Exploding the Wall

Lecture 4: Adding Music

Lecture 5: Saving Sound Settings

Lecture 6: Sound Effects

Lecture 7: Syncing Sounds with Animation

Lecture 8: Animated Pickups

Lecture 9: Final Touches

Chapter 9: Final Words

Lecture 1: Some Final Words from Penny

Lecture 2: Where to Now?

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

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3 stars: 9 votes

4 stars: 71 votes

5 stars: 271 votes

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