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Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to build a 2D game with players, obstacles, formidable enemies, and multiple levels with Unity.
Many of the games hitting app stores are 2D games. Unity is the perfect engine for designing them. Why? Unity 2D has a drag-and-drop sprite importer, built-in texture atlasing, a sprite animation editor, a dedicated 2D renderer with features like layers/depth and parallax scrolling, and the open-source Box2D physics engine. (If you've played...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Complete your 2D RPG game with turn-based combat. Learn how to program, trigger, and manage battles on a tile-based map with Unity 5.
The hallmark of any popular RPG game is combat. Building on the lessons in the rest of the Unity 5 2D series, these tutorials show how to build simple turn-based combat like you would experience in classic RPGs. In the Movement in an RPG Game course, you learned how to move a player in a 2D tile-based map. Here you'll...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Get started with Google Apps Script development. Discover how to automatically generate Markdown documentation for your projects using the power of Google Drive and Google Docs.
Google Apps Script has a robust set of APIs available to any JavaScript developer looking to automate content creation tasks by leveraging the storage space of Google Drive and the collaborative nature of Google Docs. In this course, discover how to automatically generate...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn the basics of programming in C# for Unity game design and development.
Ready to start developing your first game, but need to get up to speed on C#? Learn the basics of programming in C# for Unity and find out how to script your first game development project. Jesse Freeman covers the structure, syntax, and language of C# as it works inside the Unity IDE. The lessons focus on the most important concepts for beginners to master, including variables,...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Speed up game development with Git and Unity Cloud Build, the tool for automatically compiling, deploying, and testing Unity games.
Unity Cloud Build watches your source code and automatically compiles, deploys, and tests new changes. Git is a popular version control system that allows you to track changes to your project and revert them when needed. Together, they make the perfect toolset for speeding up Unity game development. In this course, Jesse...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use Unity 5's tools to improve the performance of your 2D graphics by optimizing draw calls to the CPU.
Faster graphics make better video games. Learn how to use Unity 5's tools to improve the performance of your 2D graphics by optimizing draw calls to the CPU. These tutorials from expert game developer Jesse Freeman cover analyzing your graphics with the Profiler, viewing individual draw calls with the Frame Debugger, and optimizing...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to extend the Unity 5 IDE with custom tools like this tile map editor. Jesse Freeman shows you how to build a tile map class, a custom inspector, and a tile brush.
Learn how to extend the Unity 5 IDE with custom tools like this tile map editor. Investing the time to customize Unity's environment today will make game development much more efficient tomorrow. This simple extension will allow you to easily design large 2D tile maps by simply...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to work with Smart Objects and linked files to create reusable elements across multiple PSDs.
Photoshop offers some incredible tools for creating Photoshop Document (PSD) designs that are modular and easy to update. In this course, learn how to optimize your UX design work by leveraging a few Photoshop features—namely, Smart Objects and linked files—to create reusable elements across multiple PSDs. Join Jesse Freeman as he explains...
9) Unity 5: UI
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to use, lay out, and customize Unity 5's new UI components to build simple screens for games.
Unity's UI system provides game developers with tools for creating professional user interfaces, fast and efficiently. Watch these Unity tutorials to learn how to build simple screens for games—splash screens, level selection screens, or even high-score screens—with Unity 5. Jess Freeman covers the basic UI components, including RectTransforms,...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Get tips and tricks for refactoring existing C# codebases. Create cleaner, more performant, and readable code with these C# refactoring techniques.
Refactoring code makes it cleaner, more performant, and readable. It eliminates unused functionality, renames and reorganizes elements to make their purpose clearer, and allows for more abstraction. This course provides C# developers with tips and tricks for refactoring existing codebases. Learn how to...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to design C# frameworks for personal, enterprise, and open-source projects.
Discover how to design C# frameworks for personal, enterprise, and open-source projects. In this course, join instructor Jesse Freeman as he discusses key framework design concepts, how to organize your code into stand-alone source code, and how to document and share your frameworks online. Jesse covers code encapsulation and modular classes as well as how to...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to work with .NET System.IO classes for accessing the file system in your C# application. See how to work with folders and files, organize file access logic, and more.
You may often need to access the underlying file system within your C# application. In this course, discover how to work with .NET System.IO classes for accessing the file system. Instructor Jesse Freeman shows how to create, delete, and move folders using the Directory class,...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn the skills needed to get started building cross-platform C# apps on your own.
In this course, learn the fundamentals of building cross-platform C# apps that work on Android, macOS/iOS, and Windows while leveraging .NET MAUI. Instructor Jesse Freeman shows you core concepts like setting up a cross-platform dev environment, building simple UI, navigating between app screens (pages), and implementing MVVM concepts with data binding XAML. Follow...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Get started in Unity 2D game development. Build your first Unity game for desktop, web, or mobile complete with scrolling backgrounds, reusable game objects, and custom UI.
Learn everything you need to get started in Unity 2D game development. Unity expert Jesse Freeman builds a complete 2D game based off the endless runner genre—a unique one-button game that's not only fun to play, but also exciting to build. The end result is a reusable code...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to design a developer-focused tool by examining the UI in the Pixel Vision 8 game console.
If you're ready to design a dev tool, but aren't sure where to start, this course gets you on your way. Join Jesse Freeman as he explains the fundamentals of UI design and how to apply UX principles when designing interfaces. By taking a look at the design of the game engine Pixel Vision 8, he breaks down the logic behind the layout of standard components....
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to emulate palette swapping in any 2D project in Unity to efficiently reuse graphics.
Palette swapping, a technique borrowed from old school game engines, is a great system for dynamically changing the colors of sprites at runtime. While it's not built into Unity, with a little ingenuity and the advanced techniques shown in this course, you can emulate palette swapping in any 2D sprite-based game. Jesse Freeman will show you how to build...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Create an "endless runner" style 2D game in Unity 5, while learning the basics of object pooling, supporting multiple screen resolutions, tracking scoring, and multi-platform publishing.
In this course you'll learn how to make a full 2D game from start to finish, using the powerful Unity 5 engine. The end game will work across desktop, web, and mobile devices, and be fully customizable—so you can swap author Jesse Freeman's artwork and use his...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discover how to create scripts for 2D games in Unity. Learn how to create new scripts from scratch, expose public fields to the inspector, extend the MonoBehaviour class, and more.
Unity is a popular platform for creating 2D and 3D games for desktop, mobile, and consoles. In this introductory course, join Jesse Freeman as he walks through everything first-time game developers need to know about creating scripts for 2D games in Unity. He covers setting...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn the basics of level design in Unity 5 2D, including building puzzles, monsters, collisions, gizmos, and enhanced menus.
Learn the basics of level design in Unity 5 2D. Exciting, engaging level designs are what make for great gameplay. This course focuses on designing levels that challenge your players by including puzzles, monsters, player flow, and balancing. Jesse Freeman shows how to build a basic level with multiple layers, and trick it...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Create your own 2D action adventure game for any target platform with Unity 5.
Create your own 2D action-adventure game for any target platform with Unity 5. If you're familiar with Unity or have taken Unity 5 2D Essential Training, this course will expand your knowledge into game development specifics, including working with controller input, tile maps, and sound, and managing multiple scenes. Follow along with Jesse Freeman as he shows how to import...
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