Development of a 2D shoot 'em up video game in Unity

You'll start the course by getting to know Hernán, some of his works and, mainly, the work of artists who have inspired and influenced him, which have been key in his professional career as a videogame developer. He will also tell you what the project you'll be doing in this course will be about.

In the second unit, you'll learn to prepare the project with the essentials to start breathing life into the game. You'll define the initial architecture and customize the game, and you'll learn to use techniques to bring the stage to life and control the player’s movement.

You'll see the importance of the game input so that the player has the best possible experience. You'll have fun with the stage, and there will be destruction!

Then, you'll learn how to instantiate, or create, shooters. You'll understand the scripts that will give the initial bases to the input system. Hernán will teach you the importance of game physics, why use them, and how to take advantage of them. You'll see how to detect the collision between one object and another, which will give you the basis to work on the destruction within the game.

In the next unit, you'll learn to generate enemies dynamically within a level, configuring their difficulty and intelligence through scriptable objects. You'll realize how you can totally change the experience with just a few small changes in each definition of an enemy.

You'll learn to make one of the keys to the success of every video game, one of the elements that Hernán considers most important in a shoot 'em up: the final boss! In addition, he will teach you how to design and build a game orchestrator, which will allow you to keep track of everything that happens within your game.

Finally, you'll learn how to define a metagame, which supports the main gameplay by creating objectives for the player, to encourage him to play in the best possible way. You'll also know how to deploy your game on a platform, so that your friends, colleagues, grandparents, or anyone in the world can play it.