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Variables

The very basics of C#.


var basically means variable. As you learnt in maths a variable holds a number. In this instance a var could hold an int, (A number with no decimal place) bool, (Basically true or false) string,(Basically words/letters) float, (A number with a decimal) double (64-bit floating point, a little complex for this level). Private means that the variable cannot be accessed by other scripts. Public is vice-versa.

example :

   private var int theVariableName = 10;

   public var bool theVariableName = false;

   public var string theVariableName = "Hi I am a variable";

   private var float theVariableName = 7.2f;


When declaring a float the value needs to have an "f" after the number.

Keep Making Games

Expand your knowledge of games. Try and understand how they work and take note of EVERYTHING that goes on. Experiment with other games. A good way of learning how games work is to break them. Not physically going inside your computer and snapping it in half, that would be ridiculous, why would you ever try something like that? Crazy person... I'm talking about finding bugs in games and taking note of every function and operation that happens on the screen.

 I have been playing games for a long time, ever since I was around 10 years old,  and I have always been fascinated how everything worked on the screen. I would always think about making a game, all the time trying to understand how. Until I found many tutorials. It was really confusing at first, but I eventually got the hang of it. I started "attempting" to make games when I was around 12-13 years old, I know surprising. This just shows how simple it is, since I wasn't the brightest student and I can still make games.

Multiplayer Game

I recently finished GTGD's series one of his game development series, and I decided to share my work. You can download all the scripts and compiled game here. I personally recommend watching all of his videos, they are especially good for beginners.

The controls are :
Q & E to teleport forward and backwards.
LMB (Left Mouse Button) to shoot.
W, A, S and D to walk around.

Take note that this game is a prototype, I was experimenting with Unity's multiplayer functions.

All credit goes to GTGD.

Where to learn how to code in C#

There are many tutorials on Youtube and the internet on how to make games and code, but here are some of my favorites.

Gamer To Game Developer

An Australian Youtuber, who does tutorials on how to make games in Unity. He is known for his GTGD tutorial videos on how to make a multiplayer first person shooter (FPS) in Unity. You can follow his tutorials on his Youtube or buy his GTGD tutorial series off Steam.

GTGD s1

GTGD s2

GTGD s3

Brackeys

A Danish Youtuber, who does a wide variety of tutorials and has also made a multiplayer first person shooter tutorial series for Unity. You can follow him on Youtube at Brackeys.

Extra Credits

Extra Credits is a Youtube channel created by Daniel Floyd and James Portnow. It is a game studies channel, to help us get more information on games as a whole instead of teaching us how to make them.

SpeedTutor

A sole Youtuber dedicated to creating tutorials in Unity. He has created many great tutorials and has a series on how to make a survival game that he is currently working on. His Youtube channel can be found here.

Let's talk about making games

Making games is a lot of hard work and requires determination and interest. Don't expect to make a AAA title like Call Of Duty or Battlefield in a couple of days, by yourself. Those kinds of games take years to make, with huge teams up to a 100 people. Being an indie game developer, we cannot compete with large companies making huge games, but we can make "different" creative games. We are only limited by ourselves, which can be broken through. 

Beautiful games such as Ori and the Blind Forest have been made by small teams of people. Don't expect to be the best from making one game, it takes time and hard work.

Assets and tools for game development

Every game is composed of thousands of lines of code to do specific jobs, such as render all the geometry or make the character move. Luckily for the newer generation of coders and game developers there are many tools and open source scripts out there for us to use, making it easier to work.

The Unity asset store is a great place to find already made projects to play around with and tools for many different uses.

What is Unity?

Unity is a cross-platform game engine created by Unity Technologies. It was first announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in 2005 for the OS X. Unity uses several different languages such as Javascript and C#. It is a powerful game engine, which is easy to learn.

Adam, a beautiful short film rendered in real time by Unity's demo team.

Games created with Unity :

Broforce

Broforce is an arcade style shooter developed by Free Lives (a South African indie team, located in Cape Town) and published by Devolver Digital. 

Pokemon GO

A more of a popular game, created by Niantic, Pokemon GO started out as an April Fools joke by Google.

What is C# ?

C# is a programming language compiled with .Net Framework and mostly used in Visual C#. It is an object orientated language and was designed and developed by Microsoft which first appeared in 2000. For this blog, we will be talking about C# in Unity (A game engine which we will be using). 

This is an example of what the scripts look like:

using UnityEngine; //The Unity engine (Engine we are using)
using System.Collections;
public class ScriptName : MonoBehaviour { 

//Start function void Start () {
    }

//Update function void Update () {
    }
}

Unfortunately this script wouldn't do anything, as we haven't actually typed anything into it.