Tag: games

Since I had purchased a few Unity courses on Udemy, today I thought it might be a good time to download the dev kit. I saw you could start with Standard or you could include a starter kit with tutorials in the download. Might as well – can’t be a waste of time to get a soft introduction. I chose the tutorial using a Lego mini game – Lego are always fun.

I started it up and it has platforms and a minifig with some boxes of treasure or something. I entered play mode to experience the game as it exists now. Wander the islands / platforms and run through the boxes to capture them. Back to editor to up the speed of the minifig. Yay! First modification done.

Then, it tells you to place a platform and make some orientation adjustments. I was able to move it around and place it where I wanted. But then it asked me to rotate it. I am not sure if I actually was doing it wrong – not completing the tasked as the tutorial wanted. Or if I was having issues because my computer was sounding like it was going to take off.

I suspect the latter. I will have to download Unity on my laptop which I use as a desktop. It has a little more power to try out the Unity dev kit. Hopefully, it will all work out and I won’t have to upgrade just to explore Unity. Of course, since I love also playing video games – an upgrade wouldn’t really be going to waste. 🙂

The other day I was browsing online and ended up looking at how to make a game. Of course, Unity is one of the platforms one can create games with. It allows 2D or 3D. I figured why not?!? I went to Udemy.com and they were selling several Unity courses for less than $15 each. I signed up for three and will be starting them soon.

I am a little nervous. My world in the past went from web development to mostly backend java. So I know I can program – but can I make something fun? I guess I will find out! I will document my progress and share my thoughts during the journey.

Wish me luck!