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Welcome to the webpage for the Buutti Game Dev Academy course. The aim of the course is to teach basics of Unity, C# and game development.

The course is divided into three stages, with the stages divided into modules. Modules are approximately a week long. Topics are arranged into "books" whose chapters are introduced below.

The moon cycle 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕 tells how done the material for the corresponding chapter is!

Links to Game Dev Academy 2023 example repositories

• Game Dev Academy 2023 3D examples
• Game Dev Academy 2023 2D examples
• Module 1 example solution (Clock)
• Multiplayer Arena (Stage 2: Challenge 1)
• Course materials (this site)

Stages

		Slides	Page
1	Module 1	🎞	📖	🌔
1	Module 2	🎞	📖	🌔
1	Module 3	🎞	📖	🌔

Books

About Unity

Unity Basics

		Slides	Page
0	What is Unity?	🎞	📖	🌔
1	The Unity Interface	🎞	📖	🌔
2	Unity's Building Blocks	🎞	📖	🌔
3	Assets & Prefabs	🎞	📖	🌔
4	Scripting Gameobjects	🎞	📖	🌔

Unity Advanced

		Slides	Page
1	Delayed actions	🎞	📖	🌔
2	Scriptable objects	🎞	📖	🌒
3	Events	🎞	📖	🌒

Unity Cookbook

		Slides	Page
I
	2D basics	🎞	📖	🌔
	Input handling	🎞	📖	🌔
	Transform	🎞	📖	🌔
	Collision	🎞	📖	🌔
	Physics	🎞	📖	🌔
II
	Particle system	🎞	📖	🌔
	UI	🎞	📖	🌔
	Audio	🎞	📖	🌔
	Scenes	🎞	📖	🌔
III
	Tilemaps	🎞	📖	🌔
	2D animation	🎞	📖	🌔
	Pathfinding	🎞	📖	🌔
IV
	3D basics	🎞	📖	🌒
	Blender 3D	🎞	📖	🌒
	3D animation	🎞	📖	🌔
	Input system	🎞	📖	🌔
	Saving and loading	🎞	📖	🌒
	Building an executable	🎞	📖	🌓

About programming

Programming

		Slides	Page
0	Introduction to Game Programming	🎞	📖	🌕
1	Variables	🎞	📖	🌕
2	Conditionals	🎞	📖	🌕
3	Functions	🎞	📖	🌕
4	Loops	🎞	📖	🌕
5	Arrays and Lists	🎞	📖	🌕
6	Classes and Methods	🎞	📖	🌔
7	Special Types	🎞	📖	🌓
8	Game Programming Patterns	🎞	📖	🌒
	Best practices	🎞	📖	🌔
	Using Generative AI for programming	🎞	📖	🌔

Math

		Slides	Page
0	Useful Math Functions	🎞	📖	🌔
1	Vectors	🎞	📖	🌔
2	Forces	🎞	📖	🌔
3	Interpolation	🎞	📖	🌔
4	Sinewaves	🎞	📖	🌒
5	Math classes	🎞	📖	🌒

Tooltips

		Slides	Page
	VS Code Setup	🎞	📖	🌔
	Using VS Code	🎞	📖	🌓
	Unity Packages	🎞	📖	🌒

Project management

		Slides	Page
0	Git setup	🎞	📖	🌕
1	Git basics	🎞	📖	🌕
2	Git continued	🎞	📖	🌕
3	GitHub tools	🎞	📖	🌔
4	Scrum	🎞	📖	🌕
	Git cheat sheet	🎞	📖	🌕

Game Development

		Slides	Page
	Playtesting	🎞	📖	🌔
	Tools	🎞	📖	🌔
	Game Design	🎞	📖	🌔
	Game Industry	🎞	📖	🌓
	Accessibility	🎞	📖	🌓
	Gamification	🎞	📖	🌓
	Teamwork	🎞	📖	🌒
	Publishing on Itch.io	🎞	📖	🌒
	Publishing on Steam	🎞	📖	🌑

Code example repositories

Code examples are in different repositories. Links to repositories below, including the lists of lectures that the repositories contain the examples about.

ProgrammingExercises

• Variables
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Arrays and Lists
• Classes and Methods
• Interpolation

ProgrammingExercises2D

• Input handling
• Collision
• Transform
• Vectors
• Forces

DungeonCrawler

• 2D basics
• Tilemaps
• 2D animation

2DTopDownShooter

• 2D basics
• Tilemaps
• 2D animation
• Pathfinding
• Interpolation (smooth camera move with lerp)
• Dialogue system

MultiplayerArena

• 4-player multiplayer
• Pausing
• Scene manager & Game manager singletons