First post & planning for week #1

This is where I’ll be logging my progress on what I hope to be my first complete videogame project.

It’s going to be a very short walking simulator based on a dream I had many years ago.

None of what I’m about to post is intended as a tutorial or a recommended way to program, design, or execute any of the involved tasks that game development usually requires. It is mostly about having a place to keep record of my own learning process, and also to get used to sharing with other likeminded people.

Resources and tools

I will be using Unity as the engine of choice. Since I don’t know much about it, my main guide will be the book Game Programming with Unity and C#: A Complete Beginner’s Guide by Casey Hardman. I’ve already read and done the excercises for the introductory part and I really like working with it. Seems like it contains most of the crucial knowledge required for this project, but of course I’ll be complementing it whenever necessary with other online resources.

First milestone

The first objective I’m thinking of is to make a scene containing a simple floor, some walls, a player object that can be moved using WASD with the camera attached to it so it’s a first person perspective. Next post should be about making that. Hopefully within the coming week.