Master Unity Game Development: Build Your 2D Action Shooter

What you will learn:

C# Programming Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques
Unity UI Design and Implementation (Menus, Shops)
Complete Shop System Integration in Unity
Robust Save and Load Game Functionality
Creating Special Abilities (e.g., Slow Motion, Rage Mode)
Professional Joystick Handling (Multiple Joystick Support)
Developing Dynamic and Challenging AI Enemies
Comprehensive 2D Action Game Development Workflow

Description

Level Up Your Game Dev Skills: Build a Stunning 2D Shooter in Unity

Ready to transform your game development dreams into reality? This immersive Unity course empowers you to craft a complete 2D action shooter, guiding you from beginner C# programming to advanced features like AI enemy design and intricate shop systems.

Unleash Your Inner Game Designer: Master C# and Unity's Power

Begin with a solid foundation in C#, progressing from basic syntax and control flow to advanced object-oriented programming techniques. We'll cover crucial elements including variable handling, loops, and classes, building your proficiency to handle complex game logic.

Craft Engaging User Interfaces: Menus, Shops, and More

Design captivating user interfaces that enhance the player experience. You'll learn to build intuitive menus, fully functional in-game shops, and dynamic interfaces, seamlessly integrated with your game’s core mechanics.

Implement Robust Game Mechanics: Shop, Save, Load, and More

Master data persistence, creating reliable save and load systems to preserve player progress and game settings. Learn to design an engaging shop system, manage inventory, implement currency transactions, and ensure players can easily return to their games.

Power Up Your Gameplay: Special Abilities and Advanced Controls

Add depth and excitement with custom special abilities like slow motion and rage modes. This course explores how to implement and fine-tune such mechanics, boosting player engagement and replayability. You'll also gain professional joystick handling skills, including managing multiple joysticks for versatile control schemes.

Develop Dynamic AI Enemies: Challenging and Engaging AI

Elevate your game's challenge by creating dynamic and intelligent enemy AI. Learn to craft enemies with advanced behaviors, utilizing Unity's AI tools for creating compelling and engaging combat encounters.

This course provides a complete, hands-on journey through 2D game development. Enroll today and start building your dream game!

Curriculum

Introduction & Core Mechanics

This section lays the groundwork for your 2D shooter. Lectures cover introductory concepts, setting up your development environment, sprite editing, creating a loading screen using UI elements, and constructing the main menu with buttons, sliders, and animations. You’ll learn particle effects for visual enhancement, and delve into core gameplay elements like character movement, aiming, jumping, and shooting mechanics, including bullet particle effects and collision handling. Setting up lighting with URP is also explored.

Enemies, Health, and Gameplay Enhancements

Here, you’ll develop enemy AI, creating health bars for both players and enemies, and implementing enemy follow behavior. Lectures cover the player's death sequence, camera shaking effects, and the creation of various enemy types with unique animations and particle effects. You’ll learn how to implement a currency system, generating coins upon enemy defeat, and create a lose menu. This section also covers the level up system, health items, and the powerful 'Angry Mode' special ability.

Level Design, Load/Save, and Pause Menu

This section focuses on level design, including creating new maps and implementing a load level system. You’ll build a pause menu to improve game functionality, implement load level functionality in the lose page, integrate your game currency into the code, and create an energy/life system along with accompanying pages.

Shop System and Advanced Features

This in-depth section covers the creation of a fully functional shop system, including shop button design, coding the shop’s backend logic (in multiple parts), setting shop items on the player, adjusting gun damage and health, making shop items usable during gameplay, and displaying damage values. Finally, you’ll fine-tune 'Angry Mode,' create level-up pages, and add additional enemy types.

Polishing and Final Touches

The final section focuses on refining the game. Lectures delve into adding sound effects, using TM Pro for displaying cool messages, animating the entire game for visual appeal, creating information and ‘no-money’ pages, incorporating item cool-down periods, adding multiple maps for increased replayability, and creating the main loading page, and implementing an auto-jump structure for enemies.