Setting Up Your Game Dev Environment

Part of Game Development is the proper setup of a work environment. This work environment is a combination of software, accounts, and hardware that gives you access to all the tools to create a game. It can be very frustrating to work on a problem, only to be interrupted by a new account creation screen or a download bar. Make sure you create accounts and download/update all your software. There is no efficient way to grade this assignment, so points will be deducted if this scenario comes up in the semester.

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Where to go from here?

How to Critique a Game - https://youtu.be/csmTSngxmmM
Starting a Unity Build with GitHub - https://youtu.be/8A3LiPKNXKA


Have a question? Post it here, email me at [email protected]
or on Twitter @GameDevProf

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Software List

Download and Install:
https://desktop.github.com/ A Git client such as GithubDesktop, https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ sourcetree, or https://www.gitkraken.com/ GitKraken
https://git-lfs.github.com/ GitLFS
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/ Audacity (even if you have another audio editing software, download this program)

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html Creative Cloud: Adobe Premiere, Photoshop & Illustrator or

https://www.gimp.org/ open-source GIMP and https://inkscape.org/ Inkscape
https://obsproject.com/ A NONWATERMARKED video capture software such as OBS - Open Broadcasting Software
https://discordapp.com/ Discord
Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Firefox (You need all three browsers)
https://support.apple.com/boot-camp Bootcamp (for Mac Users)

Unity https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download


Register/Login:
Your Git client of choice
Login to http://github.uconn.edu with your NETID.
http://freemusicarchive.org/
https://freesound.org/
Unity3D account https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download
https://kenney.nl/assets/platformer-art-deluxe Download Kenney’s Platform Art Deluxe Assets - Unzip these files into a new folder in MyDocuments
Purchase and download (Not import) software plugins from the syllabus
Discord https://discordapp.com (Check syllabus for live link)
Twitter
Youtube

Remember to follow me @GameDevProf on Twitter and my this Youtube channel

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http://www.gamedevprofessor.com/ - My Website with helpful development links

https://precollege-summer.uconn.edu/ - Are you a high school student looking to take a summer course in game development? I teach a summer course here at UConn. Financial aid is available.

http://dmd.uconn.edu/ - Want to take my class? I teach at the University of Connecticut