I need advice

Hi

I'm completly new in Unity and I've no idea where to start. I got basic understanding about programming (php, some javascripting) so I think it won't be a problem to learn how to script in unity.

I've created concept of a trading game. Game mechanics will be similar to game (also created in Unity) TransOcean The Shipping Company but there won't any ships at all.

So my question is: Where should I start to learn Unity to be able to create game like TransOcean? Could you
recommend me some video courses? tutorials?

Sorry for my poor english, it's not my native.

Thanks.

 

Learning the basics, trial and error, figuring how things are pieced together and it will finally come to you what needs to be done.

There is nothing out there that tells you how to make the game you want, only how things are made, and if you actually learn from everything you do, then it will come to you like oh yeah this is how I implement this feature, sweet.

 

http://unity3d.com/learn

 

All the tutorials!

Following Neoku's link, go through the tutorials here on unity you feel comfortable with, then/also check out the live training recordings for things you'd like to know about.

Search google, youtube, etc. for more tutorials. Follow along and re-create some simple games while trying to change things up a little bit to prove to yourself you can.

It won't take long and you will realize the features you'd like in your own project and how to create them.

Start small, start simple, keep things simple even when tackling a large project. Tackle one thing at a time. Too many people rush into a large project, get scared, and quit. Most of us are guilty of that, the trick is to keep trying and learn form mistakes!

Let your fingers do the walking. So many others have done what you're about to do, learn from their paths whilst you're creating your own for others to follow.

 

There's no quick way, and no course that will make you good at game dev. You need to learn your field of choice (programming, art, etc.) and you need experience making games. My suggestion is to start on both of those things, and to start making tiny games to begin with. The experience you gain on the tiny games will save you more time than they take when you get to your bigger ones.

What you really need to learn isn't a programming languages or a set of examples from a series of tutes. What you need is to be able to solve problems, and to have enough general computing and game knowledge to solve those problems with. That's where practice comes in, because if there are other ways to get those things then I'm not aware of them.

 

EXACTLY! I have been struggling with my COLUMS remake (a game from sega) simply due to the fact that I have not had enough TIME on Unity AND (to my surprise?) I wasn't as savvy as I thought when it came to the part where you say "ok, I know what I WANT to do, NOW what's the BEST way, or how should I do it?"

I wrote Tic Tac Toe for my final in programming class way back in high school (in assembly language on an apple lol ). in fact i wrote my final the SECOND day of class, buts that because i did a sneak peak at the teachers desk and the course syllabus was just laying there, and for the final it said "student writes their own program". Granted T.T.T is NOT a super hard game to write, but I'm sure there are 100 different ways to code it with unity. It sounds like you have programming knowledge already. I can only suggest what I did:

Beginning 3D Game Development With Unity 4
C# Game Programming Cookbook For Unity 3D
Learning C# Programming With Unity 3D

Should you get stuck, the folks here on the forums are and can be a GREAT help, and *gasp* they are actually WILLING to help, but like anything else, help comes to those who try and help themselves first.

my 2 cents.

King