We recently teamed up with the guys and gals at Extra Credits to create a video series on making your first game.
We noticed in the community that A LOT of your wonder how to initially get started in making a game, we cover the technical side of stuff in our tutorials but not really the theory (if that’s the right word).
Bbb bu bu but, I want to make an MMO all by myself.
Hardly. Just about everything they said other than “just go to the asset store” was generic high level information.
It was sponsored, we’re not hiding that. The biggest thing we didn’t want was an in your face all things Unity advert, what we did want was to spread knowledge and cover more theoretical topics we lack in our learn section and that would be useful to our community. I think it accomplished this rather well.
That’s a great first video for the series, and I think they are a great choice to give this talk.
I was worried at first that it would be too preachy towards Unity, but they definitely did it right so far.
Very practically presented and I like the Sid the Séance Kid style cartooning.
Nice, I love Extra Credits and the video has good advice for beginners. Wouldn’t mind seeing them talk more about Unity though…
I just watched that first video and it was definitely up to Extra Credit’s normal high quality. Kudos for getting them to make a set of videos like this.
For those who are worried about it being a shill for Unity, EC gave basically the same amount of shout-out to Unity as they did to the sponsor of the Punic Wars video series. Yes, they did suggest “go to the Asset Store,” but I’ve seen that suggestion numerous times in Gamasutra and other game design articles by people who weren’t being prompted by Unity to make a video or write an article.
I’m really looking forward to next week’s episode.
If they didn’t suggest go to the asset store you should be concerned. It’s like being hired and told your job is to duplicate the function of the .net library. Uh, why do that if it’s not an academic exercise for uni and you have the money to buy the needed assets or they’re free?
This is so epic!
Love Unity!
Love Extra Credits!
Super stoked!
Thanks!
The next instalment in the series is here.
I think these videos should be placed somewhere more view-able to the beginners
Great video by Extra Credits.
Hey Heu, I agree as they are excellent but they actually are rather easy to find. In the tutorials under the topic “Your First Game”
Here’s the link for easy access:
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/your-first-game
Ahh! My apologize, I was unaware of this.
3rd video in the series is here!
Thank you very much, Khaleesi. bows down
(seriously: Every one-man army designer - watch these videos. They are important!)
How many videos are planned?
4, the last one is this week.
Moved this to the Getting Started forum and added the links to all the videos in the OP.