Unity Courses

Activating Ray Tracing with Unity's High Definition Render Pipeline

Enable Unity HDRP ray tracing and configure ambient occlusion, reflections, global illumination, shadows, and path tracing.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open Projects: Chop Chop Game Development - Episode 8

Explore how Unity’s open-source Chop Chop game implements combat, Addressables loading, and location music.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Make Your Indie Game a Live Service - Unite Now 2020

Learn to run an indie free-to-play game as a live service by planning LiveOps, analyzing player data, improving retention, and iterating updates.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Persistent Data - How to Save Your Game States and Settings - Unite Now 2020

Learn to persist Unity game states and settings with PlayerPrefs, JsonUtility, serialization, multiple save files, and security-aware server-side storage.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Skeleton Crew - Empowering Designers with Modular Game Design - Unite Now 2020

See how modular Unity components, events, and ScriptableObjects give game designers more control and speed iteration in a cooperative platformer.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blending Gameplay and Storytelling With Timeline - Cutscenes and Game Graphics - Unite Now 2020

Use Unity Timeline to build gameplay-integrated cutscenes, customize markers and tracks, and connect scripted sequences with gameplay systems such as AI.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Unity.Mathematics

Learn how Unity.Mathematics uses SIMD-friendly vectors, matrices, quaternions, and deterministic random numbers to improve performance and port classic Unity code.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Game Architecture with Scriptable Objects

Use Unity ScriptableObjects to build modular, editable, and debuggable game systems with data-driven events and cross-scene communication.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

What Makes Great Games Great? Game Design

Explore a practical recipe for great games using player goals, feedback, balanced difficulty, flow, and simplicity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Houston, We Have a Planet - The Spherical Terrain of Kerbal Space Program 2

Developers unpack the technical and art pipeline behind building fully spherical planets for Kerbal Space Program 2.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How MARVEL SNAP Became One of the Biggest Mobile Games of 2022

A behind-the-scenes look at how Second Dinner prototyped, playtested, and prepared MARVEL SNAP for its global mobile launch.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Cross-Platform Game Development With the New URP Sample Scene - GDC 2023

Build scalable cross-platform graphics in Unity’s Universal Render Pipeline using custom lighting, shaders, post-processing, and rendering performance techniques.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Enhance a Top-Down Game with URP 2D Lights

Learn advanced 2D lighting techniques for top-down games using Unity's URP, including normal maps, mask maps, ambient lighting, shadows, and day/night cycles. Improve your game's visual appeal and performance.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Ready to develop for VR? This guided learning Pathway will prepare you for a job in the VR industry!

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

New to Unity? This guided learning Pathway includes everything you need to get started.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course