Hello. First of all I want to say THIS IS AWESOME. THIS of course being Unity itself. I recently started learning Unity a little over a week ago, and although I am very much a beginner to game development and programming I am honestly having a lot of fun.
To be honest up until I downloaded Unity (on April 30, 2015), I had never even heard of Unity. In fact I was unaware that game engines were accessible to the average person.
Right now I am working my way through the resources on Learn and familiarizing myself with the documentation Unity - Manual: Unity User Manual 2022.3 (LTS)
A note to the Unity Team - these resources are very well produced and most important of all helpful. Thank you.
I like this guy. His first post indicates that he has already discovered the learn section. He already understands that game development is meant to be fun, and understands it will be work too. And no mention of building an MMO.
Welcome to the club @wbailey79 . Stick around for a few months or years and you’ll become a pro at this.
It makes a welcome change from the complaints, for sure. I suspect most people actually have a reaction something like this, but never post anything, so it’s good to see the positive stuff.
I’m having fun and have every intention to keep it that way. As cool as it sounds to make the next awesome video game, I would much rather be enjoying the learning process as a hobby.
Over the last week I’ve laid out a basic learning path for myself…
First take full advantage of the Learning resources.
Second complete each of the Project Tutorials.
Third tweak and break each of the Project Tutorials several times.
Forth combine (if possible) aspects from each of the Project Tutorials.
And finally (I am sure several months down the road), make a little game my children can enjoy playing.
Welcome! Be sure to take advantage of unity’s own learning section and tutorials and also user-made tutorials. I probably spent about 20 hours on various tutorials before starting working on my own game, and even with all the learning that I went through I was still pretty confused with many things as I started on my own.
Also, get very acquainted with the scripting documentation as well: Unity - Scripting API:
Welcome!
My initial reaction was similar. It IS awesome. It can get overwhelming, so I think it can be easy to give up on. It’s also fairly hard to get into, or at least was for me.
But it’s a lot of fun, and INCREDIBLY rewarding if you stick with it… I finally designed the protagonist of my first game, and I’ve been feeling incredibly happy ever since. I know my game sucks, but I’ve made an actual friggin’ game!! (Well, almost) And my protagonist looks cool as shit!
The community is very good - possibly one of the finest communities on the Internet. Lots of reasonable people, who (usually) remain courteous even when they strongly disagree with each other. And there’s an almost endless supply of tutorials, guides, how-to’s, all the assets you could need, either free or cheap.
I suspect most people actually have a reaction something like this, but never post anything, so it’s good to see the positive stuff.
