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Unity Tutorial Categories
Learn advanced scripting in Unity, including how to create your own data structures, how to avoid duplicating code and best-practice tips for choosing, and using, C# design patterns.
Advanced Scripting
Learn how to play audio in Unity, how to use Audio Source components, work with sounds in 2D and 3D, and how to choose audio file formats and load types.
Audio
Learn how to build in-game systems, such as dialogue systems, player inventory systems and state machines.
Game Systems
Learn how Input in Unity works, with a series of articles that will show you how to use the new Input System, the old Input Manager and even popular alternatives, such as Rewired, to control your game.
Input
Learn how to move objects around in Unity by changing their position, modifying their rotation and using built-in movement and translation functions.
Movement
Learn how to optimise your Unity game, how to find and fix problems, and how to avoid garbage.
Performance
Learn how to manage your Unity project, how to organise your project files and how to design your game.
Project Management
Learn the basics of scripting in Unity, and how to work with objects in your scene using C# code.
Scripting Basics
Learn how to work with the Unity Editor, such as how to use layers, prefabs, addressable assets, and more.
Unity Editor
Learn how to create visual effects in Unity, such as explosions, flickering lights and billboard sprites.
Visuals
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Movement
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How to use Transform Translate in Unity
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How to use Move Position in Unity
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Movement
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How to use Get and Set (without crashing Unity)
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Scripting Basics
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Design Patterns in Unity (and when to use them)
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Advanced Scripting
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How to create a Typewriter Text effect in Unity
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Game Systems
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How to use the Player Input Component in Unity
Feb 29, 2024
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Input
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Hi, I'm John, and I started Game Dev Beginner to help make it a little bit easier to get into game development.
Making a game has never been as accessible as it is right now. But, it can still be surprisingly difficult to know where to start, especially if you've never done it before. Game Dev Beginner helps by delivering well-researched, deep dive tutorials on basic beginner subjects, often answering the questions that nobody else thought were important.
