New to Unity - Create Small Low Poly Town Like Niceland (Wreck-It-Ralph)?

Hi Everyone,

I am new to using Unity (I really like it) and would like to create a small low poly town akin to something like Niceland from Wreck-It-Ralph, with one apartment building, maybe a couple stores, and a few businesses where you can buy things like bread or store items using simplistic inventory menus that open up. I really like tutorials by Brackeys on YouTube, but I am not sure where to start or where to search to do something like this. I plan to use pre-made/designed low poly characters and building/prop assets. It would be a very small open world sandbox game, with no defined end goal yet.

I want to test doing basic things, so I feel like this small scale would really help me and I like the concept I thought of. Please let me know. :3

 

- open up unity
- import some assets
- start placing the items in the scene (just for test)
- start playing around with the mouse and the keyboard and the scene

also find a lot of tutorials here from object placement to inventory and UI: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials

 

First off, I recommend having an end goal for your first game, unless you're just using it to learn Unity.
If you actually want to finish it, plan it out so it has a goal.
For instance, you could have a time limit where you need to run out and buy everything on your grocery list before your wife gets home. This uses all the things you mentioned and has a quick, clear goal which some people might be able to relate to
Then if you want, you can expand on the idea by adding obstacles and extra levels etc.

If you're looking to buy your assets, this pack gives you a lot of low poly city buildings and characters for $20

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/urban/polygon-city-pack-95214

I used it for some prototyping and it really saves you a heap of time.

You'll have to watch some tutorials for how to implement stores and inventories as this is a fairly complex area if you don't have much experience coding in C# or using Unity in general.

Edit: Tip for placing the buildings from that pack (or any pack): Use Snapping

 

You scream "MAKE NICE TOWN" at your webcam, unity is totally voice activated

/sarcasm

But for reals, jump onto the asset store and grab assets that are as close to what you envision as possible and start there