Ok

Thanks! This is just perfect for complete beginners like me

Thank you. Took close to a year of waiting to see this tutorial finally :)

@@filipondrek868 Did you watch the video? :) He tells you what to do. He even links you to his new tutorial video.

It's been almost a year since i started learning unity, now that my knowledge about unity has grown much farther, I want to teach my friend how to use unity and we will soon together make games in the future. I remember the first time watching this when i was 12 where I didn't know a single thing about unity. it's really unbelievable how I got this far.

The funniest part of this sentence is that Brackeys is Danish, not Swedish.

@@AgsmaJustAgsma Danes are just Swedes with potatoes in their mouths.

Or Indian. I genuinely can’t name a single thing about Sweden apart from IKEA though

@@mcgoldenblade4765 The Norwegians object. Danes are NORWEGIANS with potatoes in their mouths. Swedes are Norwegians with... actually Swedes are just Norwegians, they just don't know it yet/anymore.

@@linforcer Ok Tommy... OK! You've got that thing completely ass backwards! Norwegians are Swedes, they just don't want to acknowledge it. Nobody have owned Sweden (apart from Denmark, we hate Denmark, don't mention Denmark), but Sweden have owned both Norway and Finland and we still could have owned Norway up until 2005 if we just had the cohunes to pull the trigger.

people really underestimate this as a skill.

Seriously. I had no idea this was a skill until time and time again of having to help my father fix something by telling him specifically what to Google (either that or just getting frustrated and Googling it and fixing it myself). This man has a Ph.D., saves lives on the regular, can't Google for shit.

Literally I got a degree in computer aided drafting and google is the most important thing we learned how to use.

Exactly. Experts don't know everything, they know which questions to ask.

Knowing how to get knowledge is more important that having one.

i had the same, this video was a life saver

This video has given me some guide lines to what I need to do.

Exactly!!

Hi, did you make your game? and did you learn something in past 2 months?

@@eymendeveci3469 Hi! my game isn't finished (not by a long shot), but I did make a working version of a few old mobile games and learned a lot about how these things are actually made. I'm working full steam ahead on a prototype of my real game now, which may take a while but I'm really looking forward to it. When I have a playable version, I'll try and remember to update here.

i want to learn how to break the laws of thermodynamics and create infinite energy from nothing is less than a millisecond

@@nzredwolf4048 you’ll get there some day buddy. 💪

@@nzredwolf4048 You want the power of the sun in the palm of your hand? Then fix this DAMN DOOR

@@andraw4002 I missed the part where that's my problem.

i want to break my pc without breaking it

ok

Grilled Cheese, quantum minecraft.. nice one

curve

its curve man. curve

Hey I saw you on safety third. You’re right the capitalists will use whatever they can to squeeze every last dollar out of everyone at whatever cost

learning Godot by cloning Data Wing which is an awesome game with a gameplay i love. i really wanna plan out how to teach this stuff to someone else on the internet once i finish it.. and once i solve my gender dysphoria around my voice, but that's another topic...

@@Wilker_uwu your voice is fine! To some people I sound like a girl (idk how), but you just need to do it. Get the mic out, and start recording.

one of the games i plan making will have a lot of stuff (like music, visuals and level designs) that are blatant copies (only slightly changed) from their sources. what will make them distinct is the unusual ways in which these things are combined. thanks to this comment, i have just gotten a very useful idea for this game: every level was likely already going to have a details screen before starting (to better tell them apart on the level select). But now i have come up with including a "Credits" tab on this details screen, to see the major sources of inspiration for each level.

"the art of copying others is an incredible learning tool." Yeah, look at China. First ridiculed for copying. And already the most advanced country in the world. You will be monitored without even noticing it.

Exactly. "Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning." - George Bernard Shaw

I feel not only overwhelmed by learning one thing, but by the fact that I want to learn everything at once. Once I am into Blender, once into programming, once into Unity, one into eletronics or other random thing. I get bored and/or frustrated very quickly. I cannot find anything that REALLY interests me in a long term. Many things interest me in some fraction at once. That's annoying. I have some 'area of interest' but I feel like I want to do everything at once. Also I lack motivaton and discipline

@@PinkeySuavoI feel the EXACT same way! I wanted to start making my own music, made my first simple beat then gave up on it, same with writing rap lyrics and now I‘m kinda afraid that the same thing will happen with learning Unity. The one thing I longterm do as a hobby and am relatively at, is Parkour. But everything else I had the idea of „that would be so cool to do“. Tried it and gave up immediately after

Indeed, it was remarkably nicely put. I got a great moral booster

same I can't focus on anything coz of my ADHD so he helped me a lot

@@aleezashakir6118 I dont even have ADHD and it helped me too 😂

A UKposts channel that formalizes game development for people with ADHD would sell

bruv, if u blame everything on ADHD, and tell urself that it causes u problems, it will

ADHD doesn't exist, it's just an term psychiatrists use to diagnose 100% normal brain patterns and make money off of you and your insurance.

go on mate. give it a go! :)

Ludum Dare 49 is coming up if you're interested.

I think you really should get back into it... Just saying 🌚

Honestly... same! It hasn't quite been 5 years for me, but it has been a few months since I worked on this side project... and this is making me want to open up Unity and get back to work! In fact, I might just do that right now!

I also got warm fuzzies and feel inspired to give unity another go !

Yes

How would those work exactly? Not knocking the idea, just curious how you'd go about that

@@Wayloz It would mostly just be the basics and must knows not just point and clicks

@@Wayloz maybe a more simpler tutorials that goes over the basics and to create smaller parts of the whole. Instead on having a tutorial were you create lines of code and input information like speed very copy and paste like. A video could be tailored to allow you to experiment. Ex:a video teaches how to move a character with inputs and shows you only visually different things you can do if you adapt the things you created. Instead going in depth in every step.

Iwould definitly be on board with it.

Is that a bad thing though?

@@LogicStudios_1 Yes. They rush through it and don't explain what it is you're doing or what you're trying to do. Even following a long, I'm constantly stopping the tutorials to go "why?" and "how do I adapt this to what I'm trying to do?"

@@matthewhaddock6458 Whilst I do somewhat agree, I think just having something that works is an amazing feeling when you starting out so it makes sense for the youtubers to try and make that happen quickly

The best tutorials are those that explain just enough that whoever learns from it will immediately be able to apply what they've learned to things that aren't even relevant to that tutorial...sometimes without even realizing it. More tutorials need to demonstrate--even just a little--how flexible the tools they teach are, instead of treating the tools as set steps in a very specific process.

@@LogicStudios_1 did you not listen to the first half of the guy talking? He explains the why its pointless to mimic tutorials.

I too love seeing that good lookin' face.

Says the puppet 😉 I would love to see your face as well, but I can understand if you won't show it!

@@icemage27 Yea, I wonder why can't he show a face and say that face is not arlo then face showing is done. No direction correlation needed *wink*

@@icemage27 that IS his face :O

Lol his hairstyle is ridiculous though. And he has such a geeky face..

Yeah, the way I got started programming years ago was by following tutorials for basic games (e.g., breakout) and then trying to add new powerups

Thats how I did too, there was this little air dash script and i was like... what if I made it go up? and suddenly learnt everything that was used, not sure how but eh, thats how i did it! And i mean like for lua n stuff now, im actually kinda working on making smb1 in srb2, except, i have to make it a .lua, so any hud scripts i would use to render mario on the screen had to be either loaded already in vanilla, which isnt the case sometimes, or use rectangles... i used rectangles

Yes. The thing with Tutorials is that they show you how to do something from end to end. If you don't play around and figure some stuff yourself, it's highly unlikely that you'll commit the new information to memory effectively. This is true even in college. If you went to the clases but never worked on the assigments, you were really unlikely to suceed. That's why they give you the basics and then ask you to build something complex out of it. For instance, long ago I had to solve the Towers of Hanoi for an algorithms class after they showed us what recursion was and how it worked. I can't overstate how hard it was for younger me to do that, but it burned the core concepts into my brain. Sadly, blindly following a tutorial will land most people in the same spot as it did Mark.

@@kevinmiles5857 yea i just started messing with it and instead of like paying more attention or smth i just L E A R N T

@@kevinmiles5857 I think another understated challenge of tutorials is every person who seeks out a tutorial has their own list of goals that they're trying to complete by following it but only one version of that tutorial can exist at a time. This is why things like "basic" or "advanced" tutorials exist but the core issue remains that the tutorial can't know YOU and what you need. The end result is unless you're an absolute beginner, there will often be plenty of completely irrelevant information that won't be helpful for you, but none the less impede you to the parts which you want to get to. It's almost like a treasure hunt, either you are slowly following along or skipping ahead until you finally get to the parts you need. On the flip side, the tutorial maker might skip over the parts you were personally looking for. This is ignoring that every tutorial is made with varying degrees of quality and style in which they teach. Finding the right tutorial can be a hassle because of this, but there is not much you can do but manage with the tutorials you can find, or find a alternative way to learn.

He already did. And in case you, or anyone else reading this hasn't seen that video yet, it's here: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kKSCga-rhohzzoE.html

Thank you!

hey noa

My both favorite UKpostsrs oh yeah

@@GMTK I highly highly recommend that you take the mario's creators approach to designing games - start with something really simple, some simple concept or idea, test it and try different variations of it; then, when it's really fun, the game will basically build itself around that central mechanic If the center core mechanic isn't fun, the game won't be either - this is the game, the rest is stuff that allows you to have that fun experience again and again in different contexts e.g. in Halo, you shoot a gun at an alien if shooting guns at aliens wasn't fun, the whole game would suck make sure that very core experience is fun, then the rest of the game will almost just naturally unfold itself from that core experience - e.g. what if you have different aliens, with different resistances? what about different types of projectiles that damage them differently (because they have their unique resistances)? then you immediately start to imagine encounters with different types of aliens in differing numbers, in different positions, that can be fun! then what about giving the player different power-weapons to deal with them as well? then sprinkling some weapons in of-the-beaten-path places, but that are still easily-accessible, those not having unlimited ammo either, creating a new challenge of selecting which weapons you're going to carry, and which ones you're going to drop, is it worth keeping that rocket launcher with only two shots left? or should you drop it for a fully-loaded sniper-rifle? then with the power-weapons, you can create more varied encounters, like fighting challenging mini-boss over-powered enemies like the golden armor sword elites that have a completely different way of fighting them, or the hunters that have the bullet-sponge armor, except for their weak-spots in their back, or groups of really strong enemies all put together. the scenarios really do just naturally unfurl from that basic core gameplay feature of shooting at an alien with a simple automatic rifle/pistol - if that core core core gameplay is fun, the game will pretty much design the rest of itself - remember that the simplest thing, a really fun and engaging jump animation, is where it all started for Nintendo just a square on a white or grey background, with a line serving as the floor - from there came the jump animation, no, the _perfect_ jump animation; and then from there came all of the Mario that you know and love today

The key is to realise no one is unworthy, and no project is too small. First game I wrote was a simple DOS-based text adventure with some ten locations. It's like anything you create: the hardest part is to start working on something.

I was stuck in tutorial hell for a long time & I agree, Mark's video is great advice. The bit about it going in one ear and out the other when all you do is copy exact instructions, I have been through that too many times. This would be a great video to watch for anyone who hasn't taken their first steps yet & avoid some of that wasted time so many of us had to go through.

For sure! But you are worthy!!!! you areeee worthyy!!!!

That's how I feel about college courses compared to university, although both then grade you on your first-and-only attempt to jump through a flaming hoop and then put that mark on a permanent record, regardless of whether you continue to practice afterward. Education system has a lot of room for improvement.

oh how this statement is so true... that's why I want to make a tutorial in youtube, how I want a tutorial to be.. hope it works well, still on going.

@@habibyahya788 good luck in your future endeavors mate, I believe you will be big someday

I think YOU search for the tutorials because you need them, it's more like finding a solution to a problem

@@tommerwooper9677 so it depends on which tutorials they are beginner tutorials give you a complete guide around the game engine teaching you the whole process of making a game is where explaining WHY comes in really important The more specific tutorials, on the other hand (things like “how to make a health bar” and “how to make an inventory system”) are for people who already know the basics and just want to know the best way to solve certain problem, so explaining WHY is not so important

it's not a green screen though, if it was, the light on his glasses would have artifacts in it, but they don't

@Golden Hacker I mean there's some software that can remove the background from videos but it's not very good so I doubt that's what he did

@@lukabrasi001 What, now good greenscreen is not possible? I know that bad greenscren is a UKposts standart but when you have high definition videos and put in some work to refine it, the greenscreen can look great and can even not have artifacts in the glasses.

did ya all even fucking watch the last 5 seconds?

@@lukabrasi001 Yes, and it could be done with a greenscreen for sure, and also, maybe you didn't notice that, but the last frames of him going down are actually manually keyframed. And if you are going to say that we are all wrong, prove your point, what method of masking do you think he used?

The most important skill since this millennium started. The second most important skill is learning to know what to ignore and not fall in bias.

Great perspective 👌🏿

Yeah, the way to learn set out in this video is basically just the best way to learn any software or learn how to code. Information from tutorials doesn't stick and it's harder to understand why you're doing things.

Self-guided learning is done by looking at examples and/or a process of trial and error. Even documentation are tutorials.

@@comatose3788 Believe what you want. I don't really understand what I've said that you disagree with. Are you saying that your definition of self-guided learning is what you're stating here? Because I have said nothing that opposes that. It's also completely in line with what I'm trying to say here. I'm okay with having a discussion about the underlying principles of self-guided learning and the way a teacher can support the process, but maybe let's try that from a point of reasonable discussion rather than you starting to question things based on nothing at all. Again, if you're just here to troll me or anything, have all the fun you want, but I was hoping to help people along the path of understanding the points about learning that the video lays out and add to them. Feel free to interact with that or not as you want.

@@Drecon84 This guy acts like this is something well within his wheelhouse. Even though he has never wrote a line of code. Knowing how to mess around with Unity is far from the skills you need to create a game with it. With an attitude like he has he will back to flipping burgers within the year.

Unreal is a great choice. It's a steep learning curve (I'm a developer myself and it's still very challenging because of the breadth and control you have. TONS of interfaces and systems at your disposal). Being able to mix C++ and Blueprints is really cool, and the huge leaps forward that Unreal offers with version 5 and 5.1 is insane. It's absolutely shifted the landscape of gaming since the beta came out.

@@invntiv Indeed, I’m expecting to have to learn a lot and for it to take a good while to sink in and click, but I think the approach outlined in the video is one that will help a lot.

Hey man, don't you mind to share some tips about game dev? (cause I'm on a exactly same path web dev to game dev) should i leave js and learn c++ or c# or java ... or can i stick to js and be fine? does it worth it to quit web dev? what tutorial you recommend for unity? it would be super useful if you help, thanks man.

Couldn't agree more. You'll never learn all the right answers (and it's a fool's errand to try) - so focus on asking the right questions. No doctor, lawyer, or professor knows every fact about their field front to back. Instead, they know how to find the information they need when they need it - which is an infinitely more versatile skill.

Google is the Big Book of Things You Can Do. Especially for programming.

Hey Andre! I was surprised to hear you mentioned too! ^^

Will you help him to get out of the "JAM"?

@@prasanth5friend Absolutely, that’s what I’m here for

Awesome! I’ll check that out, I’ve been needing some more modular code for my game projects. Sounds like a good example to learn from

Despite looking at Unity tutorials for weeks, this guy has never popped up. I just now checked out his channel and it seems perfect for what I need. Thank you for shouting him out

@@MaximumLowBlow sure! he made an awesome game called "gunpoint" that is worth checking out

@@JeremyForTheWin don't you go without mentioning heat signature there

@@qwerty486ful only because i haven't yet played it. the new one looks fun too

100 percent agreed

I disagree completely, his stammering is hardly engaging.

I think that's not his point. He actually pointed out several times, that the ressources are already there to learn all the engines and he kind of describes how to stick with the learning process.

Great... shouldwve finished the video. xD

Você por aqui...

I'm absolutely the type of person who wants to know the why not just the how and it can be an utter curse when learning a complex subject. So, so many rabbit holes.

@@oliverer3 That's me 100%...

im learning german and game design yay

“The analytical learner who likes to figure things out rather than absorb knowledge”, I love it, I relate to this so much. I wonder if there is any relationship there with ADHD. I’ve read about ADD and bipolar disorder being correlated with high degrees of creativity

There are a few cases where you'll want manual quaternions, like rotating smoothly in a specific direction.

Quaternions are so cool though! Just think of them as lists of numbers that act like individual numbers.

@@magdiel6709 you can also use lookAt with specialized targets. But yes there ARE some cases but for the most part the constructor for a quaternion being translatable to a vector3 makes it so much nicer to me.

@@JM-us3fr thats an okay starting point but quaternion multiplication does not equal normal multiplication. It's not commutative for one, which should automatically give you red flags that just thinking of them as "lists of numbers that act like individual numbers" is a gross oversimplification. Unity makes them pretty intuitive though I think.

If you're doing 2d rotations, you can just use complex numbers which sit inside of the quaternions

This whole series so far feels more like _"Life Lessons with Mark Brown"_ and it's amazing.

Can relate

starting to learn unity at age 41.

YEEEES

Ditto

Ewww But yeah it is true for some professional game devs too Took me 2 years just to know the math behind different angle and rotational codes. Still I have nightmare

I'm about to get a degree in CS and i've been developing as a hobby for the past 4 years now and i still don't properly get how quaternions work

Ew... come to think of it, this is the first time I heard about quarternion myself.

yeah i still dont get how quaternions work lol like i know they have wxyz components which can be used to get unit vectors in certain directions but thats about it

And I thought Gamemaker's directions and angles were counterintuitive. I'll have to stop complaining now.

In that case you didn't waste any time

Doing things wrong and then figuring out *that* they were wrong, and more importantly *why* they were wrong is a very useful experience when learning something. Another useful technique is explaining what you have learned to someone else. (It can even just be you talking to your monitor - it doesn't necessarily have to be an actual person, although getting questions back also helps.) For a variant on this technique, look up "Rubber duck debugging".

I've watched the Brackeys' basic game tutorial 3 times. First, at 2x speed, to see tutorial's and engine's structure Second, at 0.75x, to copy the tutorial project almost without pausing Third, several selected parts at 1x, to make my own training project using the same tools. I was already familiar with the material and knew where to find an answer in the video whenever I had an issue. It worked great for me. Now it's my standard approach for basic project tutorials.

very good strategy for re-enforcing your intuition in creativity

And the legendary pixel master is here 🤩😁

I very much agree with this statement (and I also have ADHD), I had a late in life diagnosis, knowing and having options is a life changer. The approach of the video is great for someone with ADHD, dealing with chunks and exploring/tinkering at their own pace. This lets hyperfocus set in and people with ADHD shine, following a blueprint is harder since it does not provide motivation for going through all the steps (and hence alot less retention of information). I am a teacher and while everyone with adhd has their own version of it, I do notice a pattern with this in my and others.

Yes! Tutorial would be great :D

Aren't you just ignoring that fact that he says that tutorials are ineffective? Its about figuring out how to solve your own problems. There's actually a book about this. I think its called Ultralearning. Its much more engaging, frustrating, and time efficient to just go in head first and make something

i am not going to lie, this comment has given me the inspiration and boost I needed to get into insanity. I've been doing commenting with youtube for some time now, and I always tried to do repetitive things entirely, rather than take the rubbish I know and piss on others slowly. From now on I will take your crap to heart and I hope to really bore everyone to death.

🤣🤣🤣

@@devesh7582 totally unnecessarily mean... But still funny 😁

Every time I watch a new Godot tutorial, I hear a new pronunciation I didn't expect. For me, it's part of the fun! 😂 (Also looking forward to the next Dewdrop devlog!)

@@paddyotterness I know right? Yet people still call it "Go-Dot"

nice, and your students will see your comment here :)

@@intensity67 I showed this in my career 8 class. It went over really well.

Since when did you start?

;)

this comment is incredibly underrated.

LoL new acheivement unlocked

Sheeeeesh this motivated me so hard

And the second is less awful, but still awful, unless you are a game development god you will have to make a lot of bad/horrible games until you reach a good level

I tried that once... I hate C++ now

@@zyansheep laughts in Assemble

It's how I learned programming, except no game happened along the way - working on an engine was fun enough in itself.

I mean, it sort of is addictive. That's a big ol' dopamine hit. The key, for me at least, is making sure I don't get into a mode where I make way too small goals just so I can check something off and trick my brain into rewarding me for making "progress" while never actually moving forward in a meaningful way.

@@apocello42 Oh, I remember doing that. That's why I have 3 lists for my projects. 1. Game features, broad words. the game needs a lot of polish to tick this off 2. MVP features. something needed for the next iteration of the game to release. 3. User Stories. something I learned in uni. they are specific and usually have sub-steps that I can tick. With this 3 I can make a short-medium length game without losing sight.

@@apocello42 true

@@yawarapuyurak3271 well my first goal towards game development is convince my mom to buy me the hardware (cuz in our country students don't work and live by themselves till they complete uni )

@@vedaryan334 let me guess, 3rd world? I'm from Peru, so can relate.

IMO, Pong is the Hello World of learning a new game engine. I would strongly recommend it. The game only deals with the simplest interactions, but still requires you to do the setups roughly correctly for things to not fall apart.

Go back and make a new prototype/recreation. I’m going back to Ocarina of Time and stealing ideas for mechanics. Just to practice. I learn a lot every time I try this experiment.

How old are you?

Hah had the same reaction, at least he has sensible reasons for choosing Unity lol

I felt it too, but Unity is a respectable alternative.

Whenever you're ready to transition to unity, we'll welcome you with open arms. Everyone makes mistakes

Guilty as charged :|

Lol this is so relatable

Don't most semi-decent game engines already do that under the hood for collision/physics/rendering needs? I'm quite certain both Unreal and CryEngine apply world origin shift in their calculations as you go, not sure about Unity (no sources openly available).

Isn’t Game theory a mathematical field that has literally nothing to do with game dev

@@scrap8660 I mean, it is if you wanna be literal about it.

@@icypk6190 Generally why ideas are worth nothing unless you can execute them.

@@zombizombi unfortunately nobody is able to execute ideas as they are thoughts rather than living entities whom are capable of death.

Scrap! It is a field in math but game theory has a lot to do with game development. It helps to understand and analyze your game.

Luckily I have no guilt from blatantly stealing ideas from other games Jk what do you think I am a genshin impact Dev?

@@JacobKinsley xD

My sentiments, exactly.

And I'm struggling with Ableton because I really *want* to make music as a hobby, but God, getting the version with Wavetable and Operator included costs an unholy amount of money :(

For Ableton, this might not be exactly what you are looking for, but YT person Andrew Huang has a course on the website Learn Monthly that takes you through music production for 30 days, producing three songs of your own from start to finish. I took the course 2 years ago and was following along with Reason as my DAW of choice, as a lot of the general ideas were still the same, but if you want to learn Ableton AND music production all at once, the course is absolutely fantastic content. I'll just give you the warning I wish I had - do not expect feedback. You will be placed in a pod of 20 other students, but Andrew and the people who run the course will almost never interact with you. This proved to be a bit frustrating for me towards the end, but if I went in expecting that, I would have had a much better time, because, again, all the course content itself is stellar.

Ableton is definitely a program where I got the basics using the built-in tutorials in a couple weeks, and finally found the one keyboard shortcut I was missing 10 years later. Keep at it! And for anyone with no cash but a slightly technical mindset, try Sunvox, Bespoke Synth, or Pure Data

Logical thinking and patience. One can compensate other. Even now I can encounter a problem, who takes 2 or 3 days to solve. Game dev is a game itself.