Hello Unity forums! I’m new to making video games in general (only previous experience in GameMaker) and I was wondering how beginner-friendly Unity is. I haven’t ever learned anything about scripting and such, so will Unity be very hard to get into or can I sponge up the knowledge and make games with relative ease?
Not only is Unity beginner-friendly, but there are tons of video tutorials out there that should make it a blast to get started with.
For instance: http://www.unity3dstudent.com/
Check out the links in my signature to get started.
If you understood the logic of how gamer maker went about its visual “coding” then learning unity shouldn’t be a problem for you at all. You’ve just got to code the logic yourself.
I have GameMaker as well - I played around with it enough a couple of years ago to appreciate how simple it is to actually create decent 2D games with.
I often use GM to teach folks “game programming”. Along with GM’s associated book, it’s an excellent teaching tool for young kids etc.
In my spare time, I’ve actually been converting some of the games in that GameMaker book to 2D Unity games using Unity’s Play Maker add-on.
I like the simplicity of GM’s logic blocks for moving sprites around, handling collisions and other tasks. I’ve been recreating some of those blocks using Play Maker as an exercise while learning how to use it.
Having recently purchased uScript for Unity, I love that also - between uScript and PlayMaker, Unity becomes a hella powerful development system with the option to use state machines, nodes graphs or direct scripting - NICE!
I highly recommend you consider investing in uScript or Play Maker - coming from GameMaker, you’ll appreciate the visual programming - unless you’re now comfortable with coding cause Unity will have you doing a lot more coding than you did coming from GM otherwise…
I’m also using ex2D for my 2D sprite handling - excellent toolkit as well!
Enjoy!
-Will
Thanks for the info guys! Hope to make a game on my spare time soon!
visit my signature for help getting started in Unity!
since you already have some coding experience, you should be able to drop right in!