Unity RPG Course - Section 1 - Combat Moment

This is the first part of our Unity RPG course – the full course is part of a Kickstarter campaign which was over 200% funded. You will benefit from the fact we have already taught over 360,336 students game development, many shipping commercial games as a result.

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How To Build / Compile

This is a Unity project. If you're familiar with source control, then "clone this repo". Otherwise download the contents, and navigate to Assets > Levels then open any .unity file.

This branch is the course branch, each commit corresponds to a lecture in the course. The current state is our latest progress.

Lecture List

Here are the lectures of the course for this section, including their "In this video..." descriptions to make it even easier for you to search.

Why You Should Buy This Course

What this course is all about
Why you would take this course
What you need to get started
What games you will build
What you will learn.

(Unique Video Reference: 1_CM_RPG)

Welcome To The Course

Re-watch promo
About GameDev.tv
About resource links
Challenge: Find the donkey!

(Unique Video Reference: 2_CM_RPG)

About Character Movement

An overview of the section’s project

(Unique Video Reference: 2b_CM_RPG )

Start Designing Your RPG

You start designing your game
Start creating your 1-Page GDD
We discuss your top-down direction
We discuss your bottom-up moment
Challenge: Create first section of 1-page GDD.

(Unique Video Reference: 3_CM_RPG)

Set Up A Combat Sandbox

Quickly setup Unity project
World scale considerations
Import Ethan
Layout a simple arena
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 4_CM_RPG)

A Simple DIY Follow Camera

Set up a camera arm
Position a fixed camera
Tag camera and player
Write a small script
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 5_CM_RPG)

Pan And Tilt Camera Options

Investigate Unity’s standard cameras pack
Positioning the Free Look camera
Why we’re choosing a fixed camera
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 6_CM_RPG)

Prototyping With Placeholders

Prototyping requires pretending
Add placeholder blocks and enemies
Tighten movement and camera
Write down ideas and questions
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 7_CM_RPG)

Raycasting And Layer Masks

A quick intro to raycasting in Unity
What a layer mask is
The bit shift operator << in C#
How to form a layer mask
How a layer mask helps Unity to filter hits.

(Unique Video Reference: 7b_CM_RPG )

Using Raycasts To Query Click

Raycasting explained
Assign layers for raycasting
Import and review CameraRaycaster.cs
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 8_CM_RPG)

Click Mouse To Move

How the ThirdPersonCharacter moves
Import & review PlayerMovement.cs
CHALLENGE
Resolve any major movement bugs.

(Unique Video Reference: 9_CM_RPG)

Work Breakdown Structure

As Indie developers we wear many hats
What are we building?
What is a Work Breakdown Structure
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 10_CM_RPG)

Instructor Hangout 1.1

What we have covered so far
Answers to common questions
What's coming up in the next 10 lectures.

(Unique Video Reference: 10b_CM_RPG)

Organizing Project For Teamwork

Using GameObject > Clear Parent
Create separate Player and Enemy prefabs
Organise folders by game object type
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 11_CM_RPG)

Using Cursor Affordances

How to rename a C# script in Unity 5
Why we need affordances
Import cursor artwork
Start writing CursorAffordance.cs
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 12_CM_RPG

Most Important Combat Feature

Where are we at with our moment?
What is next priority?
What are the design requirements?
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 13_CM_RPG)

Gamepad Movement Mode

Simplify & debug current movement code
Optional: implement direct movement
CHALLENGE

(Unique Video Reference: 14_CM_RPG)

Onion Design

What is Onion Design
Tighten our core
CHALLENGE

(Unique Video Reference: 15_CM_RPG)

The Player Experience

What do we mean by "The Player Experience"
How do you create your player experience
Challenge - define the player experience for your RPG

(Unique Video Reference: 16_CM_RPG )

TODOs And Bug Fixes

Review all the current TODO comments
Fix bug when changing back to indirect mode
Fix the slippery enemy bug!
Fix bug with cursor?
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 17_CM_RPG)

The Observer Pattern

What the Observer pattern is
How data and execution flows
The benefits of the pattern
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 18_CM_RPG)

Using Delegates In C#

Declare a new delegate subject type
Instantiate a new delegate observer set
Write a compatible handling function
Add the handling function to the set of observers
Call the delegate
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 19_CM_RPG)

The Event Keyword In C#

Why we need to protect our delegate set
Using the event keyword in C#
Adding a parameter to our delegate functions
CHALLENGE.

(Unique Video Reference: 20_CM_RPG)

Instructor Hangout 1.2

Answers to common questions

(Unique Video Reference: 20b_CM_RPG)

Section 1 Wrap Up

What we covered from a design perspective
What we covered from a dev perspective
Share your thoughts and work :-)

(Unique Video Reference: XX_CM_RPG)

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