The new unit we have started is a beginner course on unity and coding in unity, much better for actually learning and retaining information. This course takes it a whole lot slower explaining what each piece of code means, for example now I know what a Vector 3 is even though I had seen them in the prior linked in learning course. The format is also well done and professional since the viewer can watch and do it with the person as they do it and explain it. I feel like I am getting a lot better of an understanding from this course, we learned how to code a follow program for the player camera as well as a simple driving code. After watching the final video for the unit we were assigned a "Challenge Problem" where we were given a broken plane game and we were tasked to fix it. The plane would go way to fast have no player controller as well as no camera to follow it. We as the viewer had to go into the code we were given and change it to make it work. The entire first unit is now finished and I am really glad the class went back to do this instead of crawling through coding without knowing what we are doing.
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This was the classes first "solo" coding assignment which were we supposed to use our maze games from earlier this year and add working enemies as well as an entire health system where you can die and have a game over screen as well as healing and taking damage. It sounded like a fun project, we would soon realize how rough this really is. The problem with the assignment was that no one really learned anything from the prior linked in course since when we were doing the linked in no one knew what anything he was saying and we just copied down what he was writing so when we didn't have something like a tutorial we were just lost. I ended up having working enemies by the end of the project since I had lots of tutorials online to fall back on and some good class mates to help me. The problem was that no one was really learning anything so now we are working on a more new friendly coding course from unity.
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AuthorMy name is Jared Lowe and i'm a student at Durham School if the Arts in the game design concentration. Categories
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