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(Mostly) Free Resources for Learning Unity
A lot has changed with Unity since I last used it. One of those changes appears to be Unity Learn.
I really don’t remember Unity Learn from the last time I used Unity. Maybe the site was there but wasn’t as useful … or full of content. I do remember there being a few tutorials on the Unity site which dealt with the subject of learning Unity, but not to the extent I’ve found this time.
The site now has full fledged games for many genres — such as the 2D platformer game in the image above. Most of the games are not basic projects showing limited functionality — they are gorgeous games with graphic, music, and a lot of functionality that you’d expect to find in a released game.
For example, the 2D platformer game has five beautiful (and challenging) levels. Now just to be clear, these are not five game levels — instead, they are five levels which together make up one single level of the game. But this also shows you how to transition between areas in a game using multiple levels.
There’s a ton of functionality in that one single game that you can learn from.
But that’s just one of the games on the Unity Learn site! There’s another game that I really liked — a 3D platformer. Now I’m not really into 3D games, but this made me…