Let's Make A Super Simple Unity Game! Part 1: Movement

Before you start, download Unity here: https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download

Let's start with the basics --

Take a look at the Hierarchy, Scene Window, Inspector, and Assets pane. What do each of them do?

Look at how to manipulate the Scene Window -- zoom in, out, pan.

Look at how to make new objects by right-clicking in the Assets or Hierarchy pane (and what the difference is)

Look at how to select objects and change their properties either using W, E, R or changing values in the Inspector window

What are the default things that come with the scene? (look in hierarchy). What do they do?

Let's make a player character --

Create a new plane scaled up on the Y axis.

Create a new cube, position it above the plane. Add a rigidbody component. (What does this do?)

Position the camera where you want it to be default, then make it a child of the cube

Make a new material, add it to the floor (or player)

Let's let the player move forward, back, and jump up.

Fix the code!

Show how to modify public values in Inspector

Let's make some obstacles --

Make a new wall (whatever primitive you want)

Showing how to create a new prefab 'wall'

Make some copies of wall prefab

Apply a material to one instance of the prefab, then apply across all prefabs

What's next? Some possibilities:

-Creating a GUI and menus

-Creating collectibles and transitioning between scenes

-Creating and adding materials / textures

-Importing your own 3D assets

-More code (movement, collision, etc)

-More game genres (shooter, open world, etc)

And more...!

//Code

using System.Collections;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using UnityEngine;

	public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {

	public float speed; //how fast the player moves
	public float jumpForce; //how high the player jumps

	//Private Vars
	private Rigidbody rb;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	//get the rigidbody compoment of what this is attached to (ex. the player)
	rb = GetComponent();
	}

	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
	if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W)) { //JUMP
	rb.velocity = transform.up * jumpForce;
	}
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) { //MOVE LEFT
	transform.position += Vector3.left * speed * Time.deltaTime;
	}
	if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) { //MOVE RIGHT
	// How do you rewrite the 'move left' code for moving right?
	// Answer below
	}
	}
	}

	/*
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	* SOLUTION: transform.position += Vector3.right * speed * Time.deltaTime;
	*/