A dedicate course for game designers about the basics of Unity

• Let's play: create a gameplay with Nintendo Labo
• Introduce variables, functions and classes
• Nintendo Labo visual scripting

• What is Unity? A quick overview on the engine
• So many windows: an overview on the engine's layout
• My scene is so empty: moving into the scene and populate it
• Game objects and components
• World vs local transform
• Prefabs: a very useful item
• Visual scripting: does it worth? Unity and visual scripting
• Let's start: implement an elevator!
• Monobehaviour is your friend: Start and Update
• Time: deltaTime and fixedDeltaTime and engine concept of tick
• Type of variables: graph var (private) vs object var (public)
• Store variables and references
• if clause

Create two different prefabs:

• A rotating sphere with a green material. It is possible to change the speed from the game object inspector.
• An elevator that moves up and down, between two points. Every time the elevator reach one of the points, it will wait 1 seconds before moving again.

• Input system: Unity old vs new system (just an intro)
• Get key method: up, down and generic
• Let's create our first moving cube!
• Input Manager (old): define an input and use it with GetButton and GetAxis(Raw)
• Boolean operators: AND, OR
• Spawn Objects
• Rigidbody and collision
• Custom event link
• FSM [link] (https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/state-machines-in-visual-scripting?uv=2021.3&projectId=605b6eefedbc2a0020a72147#63a13422edbc2a4cd4098e66)

Create an elevator based on the following behaviour:

• The object awaits the player, once the player has arrived it disable the input and starts moving
• Once the end is reached the elevator stops and the input is enabled again