Since the launch of Minecraft, survival games have become one of the hottest genres in the industry. Not only have both single-player and multiplayer projects seen massive success, but it’s a genre that has found vast popularity on PC, consoles, and mobile. With numerous opportunities for indie and professional game developers alike, learning the core mechanics of survival games will pave the road to success for any developer!
In Survival Game Development Academy, you’ll explore this popular genre with Unity and build a fully functional survival game over the duration of several courses. You’ll learn core mechanics found in many games of this genre including player needs, item crafting, base building, combat, and more – all with systems that can easily be expanded and adapted to your own projects. By the end, you’ll not only possess a portfolio-worthy piece to impress potential employers, but also have the skills necessary to build your own survival games with robust features to entice your players.
You will master:
- Hunger, thirst, health, and sleep needs
- Day-night cycles
- Item and inventory systems
- Crafting mechanics
- Base building
- Combat and Enemy AI
- Game Saving
Build Survival Games
Create a portfolio of survival game projects, including:
Curriculum
- Unity editor basics
- C# coding
- Building your first games
- Player movement
- Needs system
- Environment setup
- Day-night cycle
- Items and inventories
- Equipping tools
- Resource gathering mechanics
- Crafting system
- Building recipes
- Placing structures
- Interacting with base items
- AI state machines
- NPC animations
- Combat
- Post-processing effects
- Creating save data
- Saving the game
- Loading the game
- Save system menu
100% Beginner-Friendly
This curriculum gives you all the tools needed to start building survival games – featuring introductory modules for those who have never coded before, to intermediate courses perfect for more experienced developers looking to branch out into new specializations, Survival Game Development Academy is designed to help you succeed.
Courses by Unity Certified Experts
Our course instructors aren’t just fun to learn from – they’re also serious gamers, qualified coders, and have been formally certified by Unity Technologies and CompTIA for their excellent programming and teaching skills. That way, you can be confident that you’re developing strong, modern skills that will set you up for success as a game developer.
As a Unity Authorized Learning Partner, our courses are confirmed as being of the highest quality, and as being relevant in today’s industry.
Why Create Survival Games?
As part of the action games genre, survival games are both one of the most preferred genres by players, as well as one of the best-selling genres. With an increasing games market worldwide, survival games stand to become even more popular, and present developers with tons of new opportunities for game development. Plus, by learning to develop these games with Unity, developers will benefit from connecting with one of the most successful and widely used game engines in the industry.
YOUR COURSES, YOUR WAY
Learn with project-based courses that are designed to be flexible – access them 24/7, fit them around your schedule, and choose the learning materials that suit you best.
With an online platform optimized for all modern devices, you can even learn on the go!
✅ Watch video lessons
✅ Read text summaries
✅ Explore interactive lessons
✅ Practice with source code
✅ Build real projects
✅ Earn completion certificates
ACHIEVE REAL RESULTS
Our community of 1,000,000+ learners and developers have used the skills learned with us to publish their own games and websites, land their dream jobs, and even start their own businesses – and you have the potential to do the same!
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The Unity courses at Zenva helped me achieve a level of comfort with game development that I didn’t think was possible. They give you the confidence to expand your skills, and were so easy to understand.
