Useful Game Development and Unity Resources

Below are the resources I used to learn about game development, the Unity game engine, and the C# language I used for scripting:

General Game Development Resources:

• Making Your First Game – An introductory series to game development concepts by Extra Credits.
• Effectively Organize Your Game’s Development with a Game Design Document

General Unity Game Development Tutorials/Courses:

• [Paid] Unity Game Development: Make Professional 3D Games
  • Very long course containing 41 hours of lecture content – teaches you the foundations of Unity by building five different 3D games – intended for all skill levels and contains an introductory section which also teaches you the basics of programming in C#.
  • Note that while the original price is 195$, it is commonly on sale for 10$ and is the price I ended up paying for it.
• Creating a tracer effect
  • Used to create a tracer on my bullets.
• Navigation and Path-finding
  • Unity’s Manual
  • Tutorial on baking Navigation Meshes at run-time for Unity 5.6 and above

HTC Vive Unity Game Development:

• Mini course which goes over how to set up a project using SteamVR, and how to program simple object interactions.
• Grappling Hook Tutorial – details how to set up teleportation as initially implemented in my Tree Survival game.
  • The channel that made this, FusedVR, has a lot of different tutorials on VR and AR game development.
• UI for Camera – what I used to attach text to the player’s head for my “Tree Survival” game.
• Virtual Reality Took Kit (VRTK)
  • While I never personally used these assets in any of my final projects, I know that quite a bit of VR games have been created using it and would recommend checking it out.
• Vibrating the HTC Vive Controllers – discussion and sample code

Unity Scripting and C# Resources:

• Coroutines
  • an important tool used in Unity that appears in a lot of tutorials without decent explanation. This helped me gain a better understanding of this functionality and how to implement it on my own.
• Delegates and Events in C#
  • This was a very confusing topic for me, and as a result, I looked over multiple resources which helped me understand more about it.
    • Delegates in C# (website)
    • C# Events and Delegates Made Simple (YouTube Tutorial)

Royalty Free Sound Websites:

• Freesound.org – used for gunshot sound effect
• Incompetech.com – used for “Tree Survival” song