Game Development with Unity

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Ready to become a game developer? With this course, you'll practice Unity skills and create indie games to build your portfolio and start your career. For this course, you'll require basic C# skills.
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What you'll learn

Today, almost half of all the games worldwide are created using the Unity game engine. Due to its functionality and cross-platform support, this engine has gained popularity among a lot of indie game developers.

With this course, you will get the necessary knowledge to create simple indie games, which may eventually grow into larger and more interesting projects. You will learn how to interact with game objects, game spaces, and the player and how to use behavioral scripts to develop that fascinating and unique dream game you've always wanted to create. 

Note, however, that the course does not contain any theoretical topics, only practical projects. It is thus oriented toward those who either have a basic knowledge of Unity or are eager to learn it by themselves.

Throughout the course, you will learn how to:

  • create your first 2D/3D game and deploy it to different devices;
  • interact with the game world space, set up scenes;
  • get extra knowledge about 2D and 3D objects, shaders, and their properties;
  • use different engine components and understand how they affect game objects;
  • control the game time, work with time-based functions;
  • manipulate game objects via behavioral scripts;
  • control the player’s actions and progress;
  • work with the GUI and users’ preferences;
  • configure and manipulate the game physics;
  • publish your game on any game-hosting platform.
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You already know the theory. Now it's time to code like you do at work—in a professional IDE, with real project constraints, solving problems that actually matter. Welcome to software engineering as it should be.
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Navigate complexity with surgical precision
Most developers waste months learning random concepts without seeing how they connect. Our interactive Knowledge Map fixes this. It shows exactly how every programming concept relates to others, helping you build a structured mental model of coding.
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Copy the best. Then improve.
Here's what top engineers do that others don't: they study other people's code obsessively. When you get stuck on Hyperskill, you can explore solutions published by other developers. See their exact code. Understand their approach. Learn their tricks.
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Code review that actually makes you better
We stripped code review down to what actually matters: does your solution work? Have you handled the edge cases? Is there a cleaner way to write this? Hyperskill acts like a competent reviewer who actually tests your code. Not genius-level analysis, not architecture debates — just solid feedback on making your code better.

Elevate your engineering mastery through real-world challenges

Master advanced engineering concepts through ambitious projects. Each project deepens your expertise and transforms you from an experienced engineer into an exceptional one.

Sunny Mood

Many well-known game developers started their careers by making rather simple 2D platformers. It is a good way to explore different (sometimes unique) mechanics and practice storytelling. In this project, you need to create a simple 2D platformer with different levels, items, enemies, and music.

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Training Field

As your experience in game development grows, you'll be exposed to more and more demanding games and genres. In this project, we would like to introduce you to a popular game genre — First-Person Shooter (FPS). Let's create it!

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Igor Kheison
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I really like this approach to teaching, overcoming difficulties by learning a new skill is great!There are 3 downsides though: 1. No support for macOS, 2. Some tasks lacked clarity, 3. The check test runner was a bit whacky, some tasks failed, then cleared

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