What Now?

Congrats you have made it to week 13 and have finished GAD170, Woo!

You now have a break before next trimester starts.

What you shouldn't do:

• • Nothing, most people go on break and don't continue to practice and as such when they come into trimester two; they don't remember how to code and have to relearn the basics again.

What you should do:

• • Continue to practice your skills, pick something to make, can be a game, or a mechanic from a game and just make it! Do as many tutorials as possible in order to improve your skills, I'll provide some below.

  • Come along and try Make A Thing, it's an event that's hosted here over each break, where you are given a task to make a thing given certain criteria, can be in groups or you can go solo up to you! - There will be an email sent out to you when it's on.

  • Email me, if you have questions or issues with code, or ideas on what you could be practicing...you might be on break but I'm still at work :'(.

  • Next trimester if you are running into issues come along to Strong Foundations again, all are welcome.

My Tutorials to follow and try out:

• I've created another three weeks worth of content that is available under the weekly activities for week 14,15,16 to give you some more to practice over your break.

• There is also a link here to a document containing a Google Doc that has all the tutorial video links I have made, so that you can access them next trimester so make a copy of this document, as next trimester I'll be resetting the site to show one week at a time for the new batch of 170 students.

Other Tutorials to follow and try out:

• • Flappy Bird 2D - I know...more Flappy Bird!

  • Rouge Like 2D Game - think Don't Starve.

  • A Refresher - A short course which covers most of the topics we did this trimester.

  • 2D UFO Game - A good introduction to more 2D.

  • I've Forgotten Everything HELP! - A refresher on key components of general scripting in Unity.

  • 3D Beginner course - A good starting point for 3D projects.

  • Text Adventure - A tutorial on how to make a text adventure game in Unity.

  • Catapult - Have fun with a catapult, to explore physics!

  • Adventure Game Fun - an introduction into point and click mechanics. Part 2,3,4,5,6

  • Cat like Coding - A good selection of tutorials for learning of many topics.

  • Coding Adventures - A good selection of procedural generation videos.

  • Mix and Jam - Recreates game mechanics.

  • Ray Wenderlich - A great selction of more Unity tutorials with explainations.

YouTube channels:

• • Unity

  • Best of Made with Unity

  • Sykoo

  • Thomas Brush

  • Game Makers Tool Kit

  • Extra Credits

  • GDC Vault

  • John Carmack Explains Light

  • Grant Sanderson

  • Two Minute Papers

  • Infallible Code

Extra Resources:

• • Documentation here.

Non-Gaming Related YouTube Channels, that I find interesting that I think you would as well:

• • Corridor Crew - a group of VFX artists who break down movie special effects.

  • Pastry Chef Attempts - a pastry chef who attempts to make your favourite snacks.

  • GCP Grey - a former teacher who now makes videos on a variety of interesting topics.

  • Tier Zoo - a comical game related, that ranks animals based on stats.

  • Over Simplified - a comical take and summary of historical events.

  • Tested - a channel by Adam Savage (Myth Busters) testing and going through various game technologies and movie effects.

  • Tom Scott - explains a variety of computer based concepts, but also interesting world elements.