Looking for tips on where to start?

Hi guys,

Basically I’ve had a bit of experience with Unity, nothing too recent but looking to get back into it. I’m also more looking to get into the programming side so am definitely wanting to learn C#. A programmer friend of mine suggested that the Unity Documentation and forums are great but I’m just asking for some tips on where to start, there’s quite a lot of guides, tutorials etc out there and it can be a little daunting for a total beginner. I’ve dabbled in programming, only a bit in Ruby and Javascript, but would really like to get somewhere this time.

So, any help? Thank you very much in advance!

Edit: I might of put this in the wrong thread so I do apologise if I have.

Start with these: Learn game development w/ Unity | Courses & tutorials in game design, VR, AR, & Real-time 3D | Unity Learn
Those tutorials are relatively well done and tend to be smaller 10-15 minute topics. So you can easily pick the topics you want to know more about instead of having to watch though hours of video just to get to the bit you didn’t know.

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As suggested already, check out the official tutorials, download the demo projects, pick them apart and see how they are structured. There’s also plenty of user generated tutorials on youtube which are great. Just start making something basic like Pong and improve from there.

Yeah, if you’re wanting to program C# is the way to go.

Also, to start you should go through all the tutorials for scripting doing the code yourself (no copy and pasting!) and then see how you can tweak it each time.

After that, do a simple game that moves you towards what you want to do.

Great first attempts are things like 2d runner game, like Jetpack Joyride, or a 2d platformer, like Donkey Kong, or yes, Pong.

The main thing is to get going, keep going, and never leave a problem to come back to later (defeat that thing right then and there). Also, do your homework. Always try to figure it out and only look for help when you feel absolutely defeated (it happens).

And lastly, scedule time to work and keep to it. It takes a month to make a habbit.

“It takes a month to make a habbit.”
and it takes a moth to make a rabbit!

(no no, sorry, really, I am embarrassed, but couldn’t resist)

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Thanks alot guys, will definitely look at those and figure some sort of schedule :slight_smile: