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Unity Zombie Tower Defence Game

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Tower defence games are continuing to gain in popularity online. In this course I am going to show you how to create your own zombie tower defence game.

When I was creating this course I was initially thinking, should it be an overhead tower defence style game, or should it be a first person shooter style game. Well, when you have two great ideas, why not combine them. So this is a Hybrid of both overhead point and click as well as first person shooter.

The techniques covered in this course can be used to make any type of defence style games. Think of this as a template that you can use again and again and you can customise the game any way you like to realise your vision.

So what is covered in the course:

  • We develop a system for placing props into the level, with the ability to change items using an easy to create User Interface
  • Items can be placed freehand, or by pressing the spacebar, can be made to snap together either horizontally or vertically
  • Each item will have different purposes. Some will simply block the zombies, some will damage the zombies, some will blow them up, and in the case of the gun turrets, these will target and shoot the zombies
  • Once you have laid out your items the zombies will then begin spawning into the scene and you will enter into first person mode
  • You can change between overhead and first person modes to quickly navigate the map
  • We will setup a range of weapon types, ammo amounts and damage styles for each weapon, including sniper scope for the sniper rifle
  • You will have access to six zombies that I created for this course. You can use them in any of your other games too
  • The objective is to defend the tower. You must kill all the zombies on each level to unlock the next level

This course can be taken by anyone using the free Unity game engine. A basic understanding of C# code is suggested for you to make the most of this course. By the end of the course you will have another completed game in your portfolio. You will have developed your skills to an intermediate level and be ready to make your own Unity games.

So why not enroll today, and I look forward to seeing you in my course.

Thanks to the artists from Sketchfab for their 3D models used in this course

Create an RPG game in Unity
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Create an RPG Game in Unity

My latest course is now available on Udemy. For the next 30 days it is available at just $12.99

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In this course I am going to take you through the process step by step:

Setting up the terrain and level layout

creating menus and inventory systems

setting up an onscreen mini map

creating a shop system to buy ingredients for potions or weapons and armour

setting up a dynamic inventory menu where you can mix potions to create unique magic attacks

spawning in enemies and boss characters with combat systems and navigation pathfinding

setting up player magic attacks and melee combat

saving and loading player progress

This is a huge course covering more than 40 hours and is intended for learners who have a basic familiarity with Unity and C# coding

By the end of this course you will learn key concepts in advanced game design and upgrade your knowledge of C# coding to an intermediate level

You will also have a completed RPG fantasy game which you can include in your portfolio, share with friends or even sell online

I have over 9 years experience of teaching Unity and like all my courses I make learning game design fun and easy, this is why my courses are highly recommended by my learners in the reviews.

So, why not enrol today and I look forward to seeing you in my course.

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Unreal Engine 5 for Film Making

Unreal Engine is already being used for virtual sets, famously on productions such as the Mandalorian, but also increasingly on many others.

The truly game changing aspect of Unreal Engine, and the thing that now makes it much more of a threat to traditional filmmaking, is that its graphics are rendered in realtime.

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Unity Pro Builder Warehouse

In this course I am going to be showing you how to use Unity Pro builder to create a modular warehouse building.

  • Pro builder is a free 3D design package, much like Blender or Maya that you can use directly inside of Unity.
  • I will be taking you through the process of modelling and texturing individual modular items that can later be pieced together to build larger assets for your games.
  • I will be showing you a professional workflow for setting everything up from a blank scene through to a completed project.
  • Once we have built all of the modular objects I will then show you the process of snapping items together to build a final piece. Because the items are modular it means you can lay them out in any way you want. So you can build lots of different levels just using the same pieces.
  • We will then cover the process of baking light maps and adding post process effects to build a AAA quality scene.
  • By the end of this course you will be really confident using Pro builder and you will have developed the skills to go onto design your own 3D assets for your games directly in Unity.

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Optimising a mobile game in Unity

Creating games for mobile phones is very different than creating games for computers, they require a lot of optimisation techniques. In this course I am going to be covering those optimisation tips and techniques to optimise a game in Unity that is designed specifically for mobile phones and tablets.

We will be designing a Halloween themed shooting game that has an endless wave of enemies that gets faster with each increasing level. I will be showing you how to setup this project correctly, going through the Unity settings, I will be explaining what they do and how to customise for mobile devices.

Then we will begin creating the game, while using Unity profiler to check performance and look at ways to optimise for smooth gameplay and solid frames per second.

We will be focusing on items such as:

Draw calls

Batching

Coroutines

Pooling enemies

And more…

You don’t need any previous experience in coding as I will be taking you through the process step by step, showing you good practice for developing for mobiles.

By the end of this course you will have a fully working game that will easily reach 30 frames per second on older mobiles and 60 frames per second on newer devices, and that’s for both Android and IOS mobiles and tablets.

So why not enrol today and I look forward to seeing you in my course.

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