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Blender Basics Challenge #1: Creating a Simple Weapon

Sometimes it’s good to start with the basics, and weapons are useful ways to help you learn. Models do not need to be complex or detailed in order to be effective: all you need is a real-world reference to begin.

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How I went from knowing nothing about making games to publishing one on Steam, in 18 months.

Read Kirt's journey from knowing nothing about making games to publishing his first one on Steam, in just 18 months.

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Intro to Lambda Expressions II (C++)

Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed our last excursion into lambda expressions. I was looking at my personal code archive where I learned how to write lambdas and I realized that there was a really important bridge to understand how lambdas work, and so

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Game jams: tips for beginners, from a beginner

Game jams can be seen as events that are only for people who already have the skills to build a game from scratch. Depending on the theme and the type

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Intro Lambda Expressions (C++)

Quick Intro to Lamdba Expressions

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Rotating and Zooming Camera in an RPG using Unity's Cinemachine

One of the most requested features students ask for while taking the RPG course is how to implement a rotating camera. While going through the course myself, once we reached

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GameDev.tv Game Jam is Live!

Running throughout May, it'll be a relaxed, friendly event. Great if you're a beginner or been doing this game dev thing for a while.

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RPG Crafting System

This crafting system was created by me, Adir Baron, with knowledge from the RPG Combat and Inventory courses. The system uses most of the already existing functionalities in the RPG

GameDev.tv April Update

Here's Rick with an update on our courses and team: Unreal C++ - Sam is busy prototyping a third person shooter section, there should be new videos in the course

Announcement

We’re sad to announce that Mike will be taking a break from GameDev.tv. Mike has been an integral part of GameDev.tv, specifically being the champion for our

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The Road From GameDev.tv Student to Kickstarter and Launching a Full Studio

Hi folks, I’m Jordan Heaton, the founder of Skjöld Game Studio (currently working on Battle Siege Royale) and I wanted to share my journey from a first-time programmer

Introducing Character Creation!: Part 2

Welcome back to character creation! This is part 2 of my blog series, which I call, “Introducing Character Creation!”. In the previous blog, we left off at step

Introducing Character Creation!: Part 1

Some of the big animation and video game companies have employees that focus just on character creation! It’s a very important, irreplaceable facet of video game and animation

Farewell Unity Certification Course!

Today we have taken the Unity Certification course out of the marketplace on Udemy. It’s had a long run and been loved by many, so we are sad

Unity Student To Game Developer To Udemy Instructor

One of our favourite parts of the day is hearing from you folks, and there’s a ton of places that can happen – email, Udemy DMs, Facebook, Twitter,

The World Needs More Web App Developers

Despite the huge global reach of the web, web technologies are rarely considered as an alternative to native apps. Traditionally web apps are slow, feel non-native, don’t work offline,

this vs gameObject in Unity

A common cause of confusion is the difference between this and gameObject in Unity code. this is the current component, so for example if inside Player.cs then Destroy(this) would destroy the Player component, but not the game object in the scene of

Unity Scriptable Objects for shared state

Unity has a rarely used feature known as Scriptable Objects. These are essentially very light weight components, allowing one to edit them in the editor, set pre-defined states, and place them in components as required. Instead of inheriting from MonoBehavior, inherit from ScriptableObjects. ScriptableObjects

Creating Unreal Engine UI with UMG and C++

In this post I’m going to assume you’re already familiar with the Blueprint tools for UMG (Unreals UI framework). These are definitely the best way to

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Making a Unity Screen Saver

For the last few months, I have been fascinated with Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster that he launched in to space. I was fascinated so much I even created

3 Tips To Get Your Game Ranking in Google Play Store

Ever wondered how to get your game to rank? Complete Unity Developer student, Rafael, shares his experience of taking his first game from nowhere to third in the Google Play

Student Game: Super-Gravity Switch Battle

Always brightens our day to see what you folks create while taking our courses. Today we’re sharing Lukas’s story, about working as part of an aspiring

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Triggering World Animations In Unity Timeline To Tell Stories

How do AAA games make their worlds feel alive and interesting, even if all the player is doing is walking down the street? They consider their worlds as living entities,

Ben Tristem is 'Addicted to Learning'

In this interview, Ian Garstang (Gaming Debugged) talks to Ben about his journey from fireman to best-selling Udemy instructor. Along with his love of gaming, the best ways for first-time game designers to take their first tentative steps into the world of game development

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The Unity Prefab Waterfall

A place for everything, everything in its place. Benjamin Franklin That’s why we care about this technique, because otherwise without it we duplicate things in Unity – a lot. Then… We lose track of our project. Bugs appear everywhere. Builds swell