Survival Game Development Academy

Build your own survival games in Unity!

Survival games are one of the hottest genres in the industry – AAA hits like Minecraft, Ark: Survival Evolved,  and Rust dominate the market across PC, consoles, and mobile.

When it comes to creating survival games, Unity is the perfect choice. It features cross-platform compatibility – allowing you to develop for all devices – along with multiplayer support, a core feature of the genre. It also features powerful 3D rending, so you can create games with stunning, immersive graphics that immerse your players in your game world.

 

 

The Survival Game Development Academy

The Survival Game Development Academy is the world’s most comprehensive collection of courses on building survival games with Unity. You’ll be guided step-by-step through creating a survival game, and master core mechanics including player needs, item crafting, base building, combat, and more.

These courses will put you on the game development fast track – once you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll build your first prototype in under 2.5 hours! The skills you’ll learn can be used to build survival games along with a variety of other genres, and can be easily applied to your own personal projects!

 

LEARN ALL ABOUT
  • Hunger, thirst, health, & sleep needs
  • Day-night cycles
  • Items & inventories
  • Crafting
  • Base building
  • Combat
  • Enemy AI

 

YOUR SURVIVAL GAME PORTFOLIO

Create a portfolio of survival game projects, including:

 

Curriculum

LEVEL 1: UNITY BASICS 
  • Editor basics
  • C# coding
  • Building your first games

LEVEL 2: INTRO TO SURVIVAL GAMES 
  • Player movement
  • Player needs
  • Environment setup
  • Day-night cycles

LEVEL 3: ITEMS & CRAFTING 
  • Items & inventories
  • Equipping tools
  • Resource gathering
  • Crafting

LEVEL 4: BASE BUILDING
  • Building recipes
  • Placing structures
  • Interacting with base items

LEVEL 5: NPCS
  • AI state machines
  • NPC animations
  • Combat
  • Post-processing effects

LEVEL 6: SAVE SYSTEM 
  • Creating save data
  • Saving the game
  • Loading the game
  • Save system menu

 

Why Create Survival Games?

The global games market is booming – and this multi-billion dollar market is set to continue to grow. The strength of the market has led to strong salaries for game developers – and worlds of opportunities for individuals with the right skills. Within the market, survival games reign as one of the most popular and highest-grossing genres – and knowing how to make them can open many doors within the industry.

Linechart showing the global games market forecast until 2025

Average salaries for various game dev related positions

WHO CAN TAKE THESE COURSES?

We start with the absolute basics and go through everything step-by-step – so even if you have zero experience in programming, you’ll be able to easily follow along.

More experienced? Whether you’re wanting to brush up, expand your skills, or learn a new technology, our courses are structured in a way that makes it easy to skip ahead to the lessons that are relevant and interesting