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Shaun Ward
Shaun Ward
1,567 Points
Posted by Shaun Ward
Shaun Ward
1,567 Points

Gaming Courses

Hi everyone

Just wondering if their are any plans in place to start gaming courses, ranging from beginner to advanced, maybe using UDK, Unity or anything really?

Thanks

10 Answers

vandevski
vandevski
20,617 Points
vandevski
vandevski
20,617 Points

That would be great!

Count me in!

Shaun Ward
Shaun Ward
1,567 Points
Shaun Ward
Shaun Ward
1,567 Points

yea Andrew, think their would be a big following for that learning adventure

Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson
23,287 Points
Ryan Carson
Ryan Carson
23,287 Points

What kind of games do you think we should teach? /cc Nick Pettit

Michael Poley
Michael Poley
8,772 Points

I think that we should create a course that teaches students how to build a game with Unity. It's inexpensive and it allows you to develop your game for multiple platforms (Android, iOS, PC, etc.). /cc Jake Kemper

Jake Kemper
Jake Kemper
478 Points

Unity is the easiest to jump into and its used professionally. Its meant to support the small team indie game maker. Uses JavaScript, something the site already dives into, and C# . Both pretty simple to figure out in a reasonable amount of time as compared to C++. However, there is more that goes into it besides the programming side, like the content creation. Good news is, there are a lot of 3d assets for sale that you could easily use to create a game without the need of an Artist. Although there are a lot of Unity courses online, I don't know if a lot of them are approached to the kind of detail level Treehouse brings to subjects. With the , now ability to send out iOS and Android games for free, and the adoption of more and more higher quality games for both platforms, as well as the seemingly early success of the Ouya system, its only going to get more and more prevalent.

Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

I think this would be a great way to learn how to program.

avinashkunaparaju
avinashkunaparaju
Courses Plus Student 7,256 Points

Hi,

Is there any update about gaming/unity course?

Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher
Nick Pettit
Nick Pettit
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Avinash Kunaparaju,

No, there are no updates at this time. Hopefully we'll teach game development in the future!

Shaun Ward
Shaun Ward
1,567 Points
Shaun Ward
Shaun Ward
1,567 Points

depends really, I know their is a lot of development/planning/work that goes into any type of video game, so baby steps maybe start using something called scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ which is for kids then move onto http://www.alice.org/index.php which is aimed at teens. but these are building blocks for basic programming, I would love to know how it all comes together the graphics, planning & programming, hope this helps Ryan Carson

vandevski
vandevski
20,617 Points
vandevski
vandevski
20,617 Points

I think Flash games (and animations) would be a good starting point.

Arvin Gunawan
Arvin Gunawan
1,663 Points
Arvin Gunawan
Arvin Gunawan
1,663 Points

Flash and Unity have been covered to death already. I think UDK or Construct 2 might be cool

danielcroft
danielcroft
7,438 Points
danielcroft
danielcroft
7,438 Points

This is a great idea, i would love to be able to learn sometime like this and add it to my skills set!

kyle rees
kyle rees
1,480 Points
kyle rees
kyle rees
1,480 Points

it could be a good learning adventure that can be adapted to many different platforms

php based games such as strategy games like say online chess or some kind of stat game

ios and android making some form of game maybe utilizing physics

also flash which is a PERFECT excuse to bring flash to treehouse for flash websites flash addons and of course flash games

vandevski
vandevski
20,617 Points

I second that.

andrewjc
andrewjc
22,185 Points
andrewjc
andrewjc
22,185 Points

Have a gaming course would be great! Even for creating 2D and 3D video games for the iOS and Android systems would be awesome.

I am currently learning the iOS / Android app development courses and to have a project that goes into building a basic or advance game that functions on both platforms would be fantastic!

I have been playing around with the Unity program to try and get a handle on developing a game - please look into starting a course like this, it would be greatly appreciated. :-)

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

I would start out using python and teach from the beginning like simple text adventure games to pygame. Making tetriss and build from there. Unity would be awesome though too. I would myself want to start with the 2d work on Unity.