Appendix D. Online learning resources

 

This book is designed to be a complete introduction to game development in Unity, but there’s a lot more to learn beyond this introduction. There are lots of great resources online you can use to go further after finishing this book.

D.1. Additional tutorials

Many sites exist that provide directed information on a variety of topics within Unity. Several of these are even provided officially by the company behind Unity.

Unity Manual

This is the comprehensive user manual provided by Unity. Not only is the manual useful for looking up information, but the list of topics is useful by itself for giving users a full idea of what Unity is capable of:

Script reference

Unity programmers end up reading this resource more than any other (at least, I do!). The user manual covers the capabilities of the engine and use of the editor, but the script reference is a thorough reference to Unity’s entire API (application programming interface). Every Unity command is listed here:

Unity3D Student

This site provides a large library of tutorials covering an array of topics. Most importantly, the tutorials are all videos. This may be good or bad depending on your perspective; if you are someone who likes to watch video tutorials, then this is a good site to check out:

Learn Unity3D

D.2. Code libraries