Veteran game designer Christopher Orth takes you through every step of building your own first-person 3D game from scratch: from writing a game design document to whiteboxing a level the way AAA game companies do it and implementing game systems with basic AI - all without coding!

You'll be using the super-popular (and free!) Unity game engine together with the visual scripting tool Playmaker and the 3D modelling app of your choice to build an interactive first-person game level. Therefore, the people who'll get most out of it are those who already have some working knowledge of 3D modelling and have dabbled with Unity and Playmaker before a little and want to take their skills further. However, even absolute beginners can complete the course successfully.

You get:

• More than 10 hours of high-quality lectures

• 3 hours of bonus video content: whitebox reviews and time-lapsed speed-modelling of hours of game level development

• free access to the student version of the awesome Playmaker Unity plugin

• downloadable exercise files to follow along (utility textures, 3D models, ready-made health systems, etc)

• Everything you need to make your very own 3D first-person game prototype!

2021 Update

Unity changed its UI system over the course of a few years, and Playmaker took a while to catch up with the changes. The original course still shows the previous system, but we have added an updated section outlining all the changes that have occurred in Unity and Playmaker and will continue to add updates in the future if required to ensure you can follow along.

If you'd rather have an install of Unity that looks exactly like it does in the course, you can download Unity 4.3 from the Unity download archive.