Build a Tower Defence Game with Unity and Blender

Build a Tower Defence Game with Unity and Blender, available at $89.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 155 lectures, based on 60 reviews, and has 1354 subscribers.

You will learn about Work with pathfinding to create autonomous characters that navigate a 3D environment. Translate Tower Defence Game Mechanics into C# Code in Unity Use Blender to create modular 3D game objects for use in level design Design and develop moveable 3D models that can be programmatically moved with C# code in Unity This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner game development students who want to learn about tower defence mechanics. or Programmers who want a gentle introduction to creating their own 3D art assets. It is particularly useful for Beginner game development students who want to learn about tower defence mechanics. or Programmers who want a gentle introduction to creating their own 3D art assets.

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Summary

Title: Build a Tower Defence Game with Unity and Blender

Price: $89.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 155

Number of Published Lectures: 155

Number of Curriculum Items: 155

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 155

Original Price: $27.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Work with pathfinding to create autonomous characters that navigate a 3D environment.

Translate Tower Defence Game Mechanics into C# Code in Unity

Use Blender to create modular 3D game objects for use in level design

Design and develop moveable 3D models that can be programmatically moved with C# code in Unity

Who Should Attend

Beginner game development students who want to learn about tower defence mechanics.

Programmers who want a gentle introduction to creating their own 3D art assets.

Target Audiences

Beginner game development students who want to learn about tower defence mechanics.

Programmers who want a gentle introduction to creating their own 3D art assets.

Have you ever wanted to create your own computer game from scratch?  Are you a programmer that would like to also create your own 3D art assets?   Then this course is for you.  In it, you will follow along learning both the coding and art side of game development giving you the necessary skills required to be an independent game developer.

Dive right into over 20 hrs of hands-on content.

This course takes a holistic view at creating a Tower Defence game level through the examination of game mechanics, coding exercises in C# with the Unity Game Engine, and 3D art asset creation in Blender.

Through the investigation of this simple but compelling casual gaming genre, the course is broken into 2 parts that can be taken separately or together:

In Part A learn how to program and work with:

Pathfinding

Character Animation

User Interface Development and Programming

Economy systems including player lives, and money accumulation & spending

Special effects including sound effects, particle systems, and explosions

Automated enemy-sensing towers

In Part B learn how to design and work with:

Blender

Modular 3D art assets for game level design

Procedurally Generated Textures

A multipart game character with sub-meshes that can be independently controlled with code in Unity

In this course, Penny and Mike teach all the invaluable skills you will require to design, program, and model your own Tower Defence game from scratch.  You will learn from their combined 40 years of knowledge about Unity and Blender through detailed descriptions and hands-on workshops.

What students are saying about Penny and Mike’s other courses:

As a game developer with 3+ years experience under his belt, I would like to say that I have learned a lot, and also improved on what I knew already before the course.

This course is absolute gold! I am a Software Engineering Teacher as well as a solo game developer, and of all the courses I have taken on Udemy, this is has been the most useful and eye opening by far.

I’ve taken some great courses on this site, this has to be the best in terms of volume, clarity and thoroughness. In this course you will: 1) Learn several procedural generation methods 2) Learn some cool Blender functionality 3) Learn how to make a pathfinding algorithm I was only expecting number 1) but seeing how much extra stuff is here, I’m definitely coming back to go deeper and help some of the trickier stuff sink in. Can not recommend enough. Do this course now!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: A01/B01 Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Join the H3D Social Community

Lecture 3: FAQs

Lecture 4: Tower Defence Game Mechanics

Chapter 2: Part A.02 Building A Tower Defence World

Lecture 1: A Quick Introduction to Navigation Meshes

Lecture 2: Creating a Navmesh Agent

Lecture 3: Spawning Agents

Lecture 4: Timing and Limits

Chapter 3: Part A.03 Developing Tower Placement Mechanics

Lecture 1: Programming Turret Drop Functionality

Lecture 2: Programming Turret Drag Functionality

Lecture 3: Controlling Turret Placement

Lecture 4: Tweaking for Turret Models

Chapter 4: Part A.04 Creating a User Interface

Lecture 1: Adding Buttons to Select Turret Type

Lecture 2: Instantiating a Turret from a Button

Lecture 3: Developing a Turret Upgrade Menu

Lecture 4: Activating and Closing the Upgrade Menu

Lecture 5: Challenge: Add a new type of turret

Chapter 5: Part A.05 Tower Defence Artificial Intelligences

Lecture 1: Aiming at the Enemies

Lecture 2: Tower Horizontal Targeting

Lecture 3: Tower Vertical Targeting

Lecture 4: Resetting Turrets to Original Positions

Chapter 6: Part A.06 Building Destructible Enemies

Lecture 1: Using Scriptable Objects to Hold Enemy Data

Lecture 2: Displaying a Healthbar

Lecture 3: Reducing Enemy Health

Lecture 4: Improving Shooting Accuracy

Chapter 7: Part A.07 Customising with Scriptable Objects

Lecture 1: Customising Turret Properties

Lecture 2: Programming with Turret Properties

Lecture 3: Defining Individual Turret Types

Lecture 4: Defining Individual Creep Types

Lecture 5: Manually Working with Colliders

Chapter 8: Part A.08 Sounds and Visual Effects

Lecture 1: Building the Environment

Lecture 2: Placing Platforms

Lecture 3: Finessing Shooting Sounds

Lecture 4: Particle System Flames

Lecture 5: Switching Particle Systems on and off.

Lecture 6: Adding Shooting Effects for Two-Gun Towers

Lecture 7: Enemy Death Explosions Part 1

Lecture 8: Enemy Death Explosions Part 2

Lecture 9: Enemy Death Explosions Part 3

Chapter 9: Part A.09 Tower Defence Game Mechanics

Lecture 1: Waves Part 1

Lecture 2: Waves Part 2

Lecture 3: UI Layout for Game Information

Lecture 4: Displaying Wave Counts

Lecture 5: Making Money

Lecture 6: Counting Lives

Lecture 7: Changing the Game Timescale

Lecture 8: Spending Money on Towers

Lecture 9: Upgrading and Removing Towers

Lecture 10: Game Over

Chapter 10: Part 2 B.02 Orientation

Lecture 1: Project Overview

Lecture 2: Reference Material

Lecture 3: Our Workflow

Lecture 4: Multiple Approaches

Lecture 5: Are You Stuck?

Lecture 6: Share Your Work

Lecture 7: Course Resources

Lecture 8: Help, I Have Made a Complete Mess!

Chapter 11: Part B.03 New To Blender? Start Here!

Lecture 1: Recommended Preferences

Lecture 2: Editors and Workspaces

Lecture 3: Context Matters

Lecture 4: The 3D Viewport

Lecture 5: Walk Mode

Lecture 6: 3D Editor Modes

Lecture 7: Blender Is Shortcut Heavy!

Lecture 8: F3 to Search

Lecture 9: Adding Objects

Lecture 10: Transforming Objects

Lecture 11: Origins & 3D Cursor

Lecture 12: Snapping

Lecture 13: Duplication

Lecture 14: Units and Entering Values

Lecture 15: Editing Mesh Data

Lecture 16: Objects VS Object Data

Lecture 17: Extruding

Lecture 18: Naming

Lecture 19: Selecting Loops

Lecture 20: Fills and Insets

Lecture 21: Separate and Join

Lecture 22: Parenting

Lecture 23: Collections

Lecture 24: Bevels

Lecture 25: Mirroring

Lecture 26: Adding More Details

Lecture 27: Linked Data

Lecture 28: Viewport Shading

Lecture 29: What is a Material

Lecture 30: Material Properties

Lecture 31: Shading Workspace Overview

Lecture 32: Adding Material Slots

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Michael Bridges
Technology Teacher

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

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4 stars: 16 votes

5 stars: 38 votes

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