Teach your students core STEM concepts and prepare them for bright careers in game development. Unity Certified Developer Courseware & Unity Certification provide both students and educators a clear pathway for learning, preparing, and evaluating key technical skills required in the game design industry. Unity Certified Developer Courseware & Certification Ensure student success and placement in game development programs for higher … Read More
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Have you ever been working on your game in Unity and wondered how you could create a custom type for a system you were working on? Well, wonder no more! The C# language (and many other languages) have a solution to this problem by using something called an enum. In this blog, we’ll review what enums are and how you can use … Read More
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The 2016 California STEM Symposium takes place at the Anaheim Convention Center. The show begins with registration on Sunday, October 9th. Then on Monday, October 10th the fun begins. Enjoy share fairs, breakout sessions, a makerspace and more. This event ends at 3PM on Tuesday, October 11th so plan to make the most of your time. Be sure to download the Symposium Program … Read More
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In recent years, the push to enhance student learning in science, technology, engineering and math has been very strong. It’s easy to understand the need to create students that are well versed in core STEM concepts. The challenge lies in the classroom. What can you do to naturally draw out student interest in learning? What programs work the best? Are there … Read More
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If you are looking for new ways to boost confidence in STEM learning, GameSalad is a great solution for you. Like Unity, GameSalad is a game development tool – however, GameSalad STEM Bundles focus solely on 2D games and require no coding. Giving you more time to focus on teaching programming concepts. Instead of getting bogged down with traditional coding syntax, teach your students about … Read More
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Unity 3D offers an enormous API that provides ways to manipulate the vast majority of objects in your game. However, there are some features that are not as robust as you might hope. Take, for example, the ParticleSystem class. Let’s say, you have a particle system. You want to modify the radius of the particle system’s shape using a script. After a quick … Read More
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Studica is preparing for the 4th Annual California STEM Symposium. We are very excited for this event! Thousands of educators, students, community and industry leaders will be on hand to share and discover new strategies and resources for “Designing our Future” through STEM education. Dozens of exhibitors, such as Studica, will be showcasing the latest STEM learning tools and technologies. This three day … Read More
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I am working on a Unity Project in my free time. Recently, I wanted to have the ability to dynamically change the material properties of objects when the player looked at them. I did not want a static, unchanging material. I needed to be able to use C# scripts to make the material change features during gameplay. This is relatively easy to do. However, Unity’s … Read More
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Recently, I created a custom input manager for a game I’m making in Unity 3D. Initial research suggested I use Unity’s built-in Input Manager. However, Unity doesn’t have an API to access most of the Input Manager functionality. However, I wanted a menu in my game where the user could set their own key bindings; a common feature in most PC games. Unity’s Input … Read More
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Unity is a fully-integrated development engine used to create 2D, 3D multiplatform games and interactive content. If you’ve read any of our Unity blogs, you know that Studica is a big fan. Many popular games are created using Unity. In fact, the Pokémon GO mobile game making news everywhere was made with Unity. One thing that we haven’t really talked about (until now), is … Read More
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