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Posted by armanb21
armanb21
848 Points

Course Request: Game Engines such as Unity, UDK, jMonkeyEngine, and CryEngine.

Hi everyone,

I'I'd really love to see some 3D game engine tutorials as they are pretty much essential for creating a 3D indie game. The people over at Treehouse have covered a lot of the content that game engines use in your tutorials- such as Java. As a Java developer, I believe that some of the best games are written in Java. That's why I think it'd be great to have a jMonkeyEngine3 course or a UDK course. I think these two engines are great because they both have similar syntax to Java, and as a matter of fact jMonkeyEngine3 was even made in pure Java. What do you guys think about this?

Thanks,

Arman

3 Answers

Luke Glazebrook
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 Points

This is a great request!

Out of all the ones you have mentioned I think a course on Unity would be the best! It is used by a lot of people and is fairly easy to use to create some awesome beginner games! It would also give us Treehouse students the opportunity to get our hands dirty with C#!

-Luke

armanb21
armanb21
848 Points
armanb21
armanb21
848 Points

I think I'll /cc Ryan Carson on this one. I personally that UE4 and CryEngine courses would be great since they're both used a lot in the game dev industry.

gant allen
gant allen
7,089 Points
gant allen
gant allen
7,089 Points

I think using JavaScript would be a better choice, because 1. this site teaches it and 2. it would reinforce your abilities in the language. Or they should do boo. .......I know that this isn't the most popular language but it is close enough to python that I think that it would be easier to learn right after.

armanb21
armanb21
848 Points

JavaScript isn't a proper engine and isn't used much to make 3D games in the industry. Furthermore, JavaScript is incredibly popular for doing things besides games :)