Game development basics

Create a game from scratch & release it to friends

Course curriculum

1. What will you learn in this course?
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2. Story: Space Hawk
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3. How to use this course
4. Before we begin...
1. What will you learn in this chapter?
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2. What is Playcanvas?
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3. EXERCISE: Create your account in Playcanvas
4. Playcanvas Editor
1. What will we learn in this chapter?
2. Entities, Components and Assets Explained
3. EXERCISE: Create project and scene
4. EXERCISE: Setting up the camera
5. EXERCISE: Create the background
1. What will we learn in this chapter?
2. EXERCISE: Creating our spaceship
3. EXERCISE: Creating an Asteroid
1. What will you learn in this chapter?
2. Lights in Playcanvas
3. EXERCISE: Add Lighting
4. QUIZ: Lighting
1. What will we learn in this chapter?
2. Navigation error - please take note
3. Rigid bodies
4. Forces & Impulses
5. EXERCISE: Creating the boundary
1. What will you learn in this chapter?
2. Movement in Games
3. EXERCISE: Moving your spaceship
4. QUIZ: Movement
1. What will you learn in this chapter?
2. EXERCISE: Audio and Sound effects
3. Templates in Playcanvas
4. Effects & Firing Lasers
1. What will you learn in this chapter?
2. Creating a Menu in Playcanvas
3. EXERCISE: Creating a scoreboard
4. EXERCISE: Putting it all together
5. Bonus: More Asteroids & Game over
1. TASK: Submit your Final Game
2. Well done. Next steps
3. Quick survey before you go

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