Learn to create an Idle Business Game in Unity 3D using C# and essential design patterns. Perfect for beginners to advanced game developers.
This course is your ticket to creating a cool Idle Business Game, just like those addictive tycoon games you love! With tons of guidance on Unity and C#, you’ll pick up game development skills and design patterns, making it fun and easy to learn.
Learn Unity and C# Design Patterns by building a fun Idle Business Game Similar to ADVenture Capitalist!
NEW LECTURES ADDED DEC 2022
I'm happy to announce four new lectures that demonstrate how to use Scriptable Objects to store data.
THE SOURCE CODE THAT COMES WITH THIS COURSE IS A GREAT VALUE AT TEN TIMES THE PRICE!
BUILD A FULL FEATURED IDLE GAME WITH COMPLETE SOURCE CODE
In this course you will learn how to create an Idle Business Tycoon Game from the ground up that is similar to games such as ADventure Captialist, Web Tycoon, and Cookie Clicker. But more importantly, this course is designed to teach critical game development concepts and design patterns popularized by the Gang of Four.
Do you enjoy playing Tycoon and other Simulation or Idle games?
Do you know a little bit about C# and Unity3D but would like to take your Development Skills to the next level?
You can play AdVenture Capitalist (free on Steam) to get a very good idea of the core game play you will learn to create in this course.
More than 13 Hours of HD 1080P Instruction!
Learn Important Unity Interface Concepts
Great for Beginning to Intermediate Level Game Programmers (Now includes advanced bonus content)
Produced by Greg Moss of Odoo Class Videos - an Expert in both Enterprise & Game Development Tutorials
Starts off with simple C# that even a beginner can understand... end up with a full feature idle game!
Create full unique games in seconds with dozens of stores and upgrades with the Exclusive Idle Game Data Generator.
FULL SOURCE CODE and updated projects for Unity 2019, Unity 2020, and Unity 2021.
Version 2.0 released December 2021! Now with Scriptable Objects and Full Custom Inspector!
TO BE HONEST... THE SOURCE CODE ALONE IS A GREAT VALUE AT TEN TIMES THE PRICE!
Course Overview: This course focuses on core Game Design and Programming Principals. I use the tools in Unity to create the Interface and Artwork is all from Creative Commons. The game design borrows from many of the idle Business Tycoon type games such as AdVenture Capitalist, Cookie Clicker, and others.
By the end of the course you will be able to customize the game as you please and create your very own idle game.
This course starts at the beginning but ramps up quickly to teach you important Game Design Patterns that you must know to write professional games:
Beginning Skills:
Learn how to create a Unity3D Project
The entire project is created step-by-step. Start at the very beginning!
Perfect for those that are new to Unity and Programming in General
Start right away using Unity 3D's newest UI tools to create a working tycoon store
Write your first C# script and learn the basics of variables, IF statements, creating a Timer, and other simple programming concepts
Create an Animated Progress Bar to Show your Store in Operation
Video exercises along the way help reinforce what you are learning
Improving Your Business Tycoon Game Features and Your Development Skills:
Upgrade the Game Design to Handle Multiple Stores
Create a Game Manager to Better Track Money in the Game
Learn to Implement Math Functions to Calculate Your Next Store Cost
Add an Icon for your Store and Learn to Create Dynamic Buttons
Learn Important Beginner C# Structures and Basic Unity 3D Game Development
Taking Your Game Development Skills To the Next Level:
Designed to take you through important design patterns to improve your development skills
Improve Your Game Manager with the Singleton Pattern
Use Delegates and Events to implement the Observer Design Pattern
Refactor your Tycoon Game into a UI Manager
Use Unity Prefabs to dynamically create your stores at run time
Learn to Load Game Data from XML! Critical to allowing gamers to create mods
Learn to build a State Machine within the UI Manager to handle the various interface states within your growing Tycoon Game
Create a Managers Panel to extend the basic game design and provide a template for you to continue adding features to your business tycoon game
Perfect for those who wish to see how to implement real game designs so you can apply them to more advanced systems and future Tycoon games
****** ANNOUNCEMENT MASSIVE NEW COURSE UPDATE *******
I'm happy to announce that we have completed a major upgrade for the Tycoon Business Sim course! Take your game development skills to the next level. Download the full source code for the entire project!
This upgrade will include many new features that are found in commercial idle clicker games including:
New video Lectures covering both functional and technical aspects of the game
Learn how to save and load game progress
Calculate idle profits (make money when the game isn't even running!)
Create a screen to display profits while you were gone
Learn how to create Scrollviews
Improved Screen Design and Layout Tips
Create games with unlimited stores! (memory & cpu limitations apply)
Use the new multiplier button for buying multiple stores at a time
Calculate earnings per-second for your operations
Big number descriptions for up to 300 exponents!
Handle "Angel" investors or "Transcendence" also known as NewGame+
New lectures on how to setup and implement your Idle Tycoon Business Simulation
SUPER BONUS - Generate Idle Game Data with custom Unity3d Inspector!!
Generate Idle Game Data to create procedural generated stores, managers, and upgrades
Load and Save Game Template settings to easily generate new game designs
No need to hand key store data and upgrades... Adjust parameters to generate the idle game data
Data stored in human readable XML to be easily modified and tweeked as desired
New Learning Opportunities!
Upgraded course video content that reviews the technical upgrades of the project
Static methods and properties
Using constants
Loading game data from XML
Use PlayerPrefs to save game state
Loading configuration and store names, managers, and upgrades from CSV
Build a custom inspector
Better division and integration between game models and UI
Improved performance and smoother gameplay with threading and coroutines
Using Setters & Getters to protect your class properties
Using LINQ with ArrayLists
Tons of comments throughout all the code
New Lectures that cover all the new content
TEN BONUS LECTURES WALKING THROUGH ADVANCED CONCEPTS!!!!
Learn Unity and C# fast with code reviews and detailed explanation of advanced architecture concepts.
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Create an Idle Business Tycoon Game in Unity3D Using C#
Improve Game Development Skills by Using Important Design Patterns
Create a Game User Interface in Unity 3D UI Tools
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Founder Greg Moss has been a business application and game developer for more than 30 years. Unlike most boring text book courses turned into video, Greg produces fun engaging courses that teach you how to quickly begin creating professional applications and games.Greg focuses on development solutions and design patterns that get the job done! Now over 10,000 students have taken...
Well, at first all good, until section 4, I am following tightly what the teacher was doing and trying to code in same time.
However, the teacher made some mistakes especially when trying to refactor his code, so I need to jump here and there to change my code again and gain.
Wow. It's 2022 and you're still updating this course? I am thoroughly impressed!
If I would rate for the first 7 chapters it would be 4-5 stars. Because he has a very good style. He first coded like an amateur and started improving the code step by step. Very useful for especially beginners to learn about game architecture and to see how to improve although the content is slightly old.
But in 8th chapter, he suddenly starts the first video with many newly added features. And worst things are he just went thru them (not do the coding during the video) and also he doesnt show every feature he implemented. So the 8th chapter is useless and incomplete. I was totally lost. The 8th chapter is like trying to learn by reading someone else's project not like training videos. It is so upsetting to not being able to see what he did to improve the game to such level.
I just gave some starts because of his effort in previous chapters.
I have taken numerous courses on Udemy in the last few months related to Unity development, such as those by GameDev.tv. Unfortunately, this course is of unbelievably poor quality. The instructor spends a significant amount of time on filler words such as "um", and on repeating himself multiple times. The course seems to have had no planning involved, as the instructor has trouble figuring out bugs. In addition, the target audience is unclear: if this is a beginner course, students ought to avoid this course due to its poor coding style and incoherent delivery. If it's meant for intermediate programmers, the course fails again due to simplistic implementations, with many items being made public instead of using [SerializeField] when something needs to be referred to in the inspector. Overall, I am extremely disappointed, and fail to understand how people could possibly have rated this course as high as its current rating in November 2022.
Fantastic starter course if you have some experience programming (not necessarily in game dev/Unity). This will not help you with graphics/animations or the like, but it will help you with the fundamentals and learning Unity. Course steps still work in 2022, though some objects are legacy now.
The first few sections seemed to have some level of organization and preparedness.
Unfortunately as it goes on it seems the instructor didn't plan past the intro lessons and was on the fly coding and fixing mistakes throughout the lessons. While in theory this is pretty realistic to what coding "actually is", it makes for a very chaotic and hard to follow course for the viewer.
While game development itself is a new concept to me, having a background in software engineering helped me anticipate what the instructor was "trying" to do. This allowed me to have some takeaways from the course.
That being said for someone who is completely new to programming this course is a nightmare and may end up leaving you more mixed up, confused, and frustrated than before you started learning.
I would recommend looking elsewhere for lessons as this one is simply rushed and isn't given the thought and consideration it needed to be constructive from start to finish.
It's good that the course tells about the more narrow type of games instead of the more broad type of courses. Only downside is that the teacher sometimes learn new things during the lessons, so he decides to rewrite and redo a lot of staff, but still it shows various approaches to the same problem.
It's a good course, however the last bits left a bit to be desired.
Through the bulk of the course things were explained, and broken down step by step giving a full run down on how things interacted and worked together. The instructor gave a candid look into the process complete with errors and how to manage and correct them which is perfect for the learning experience.
The last section in the course however, the instructor basically just offered the option for the student to download the code and proceeded to give a quick overview on the changes made.
Granted, I get why it was done, as going through the course the tools are provided to assist the student on handling such an undertaking. The problem that I found was that the code had changed so drastically from the point where they left off, to the new incarnation that they hand off to the student, that it is kind of overwhelming. It's something to tackle, and can be done, but overall it just kind of felt lazy viewing it from a student's angle. Granted the last section was an added part much later than the initial course, so it is possible they were looking to add value to an old course without dedicating too much time into it, but my point still stands.
Overall, I like this instructors style, and if they offer additional courses I was interested in, I would not hesitate to enroll.
This was a great update to the things I learned during his other course on the life sim and far expanded on what we learned from that. I highly recommend it.
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Michael V. H.
Very helpful. Patient teacher. Relatively unique and niche topic. Thank you.