Game Development with Unity and C#
Course Description
Bring your game ideas to life. This hands-on course teaches you how to create professional-quality 2D and 3D games using Unity the world’s most popular game engine and C#, its powerful scripting language. No prior experience required! You’ll go from absolute beginner to confident game developer by building real projects, including a 2D platformer and a 3D adventure game, while mastering the core skills used by indie studios and AAA teams alike.
Why Learn Game Development with Unity?
Unity powers over 50% of all mobile and PC games including hits like Hollow Knight, Among Us, and Cuphead. It’s free for individuals, cross-platform, and backed by a massive community. Whether you dream of publishing your own game, joining a studio, or just learning creative coding, Unity + C# is the perfect starting point.
What You’ll Learn:
- Navigate the Unity Editor: scenes, assets, prefabs, and the physics system
- Program game logic with C#: variables, loops, classes, inheritance, and coroutines
- Control player movement, collisions, and interactions in 2D and 3D
- Design levels with Tilemap (2D) and ProBuilder (3D)
- Implement enemies, AI behaviors, and health systems
- Manage game states (menus, pause, win/lose screens) with UI and Canvas
- Play sounds and background music using Unity’s Audio system
- Animate characters with the Animator and blend trees
- Optimize performance and prepare builds for Windows, macOS, and WebGL
- Publish your game on itch.io or the App Store
Why Choose This Course?
You’ll learn by doing every concept is tied to a playable feature in your growing game project. Includes downloadable assets, cheat sheets, debugging tips, and clean, commented code. Taught by indie developers who’ve shipped games on Steam and mobile, this course focuses on practical, reusable skills not just theory.
By the end, you’ll have a polished portfolio game and the foundation to build anything from mobile puzzles to VR experiences.
Enroll now and start your journey as a game creator in 2026!
Who this course is for:
- Absolute beginners with no coding or game dev experience
- Students working on class projects or game jams
- Programmers new to Unity or C#
- Artists and designers wanting to make interactive prototypes
- Hobbyists turning creative ideas into playable games
Course Curriculum
Aoife Brennan
Senior Lecturer in Technology & Innovation | Bridging Code, Design, and CommerceBased in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Aoife Brennan is a dynamic educator and technologist known for her rigorous yet inspiring approach to teaching the disciplines that power the modern digital economy. With a background spanning computer science, interaction design, and financial technology