Attempting to Learn 3D Game Development in One Week

In this mess of a video, I, a game developer who's only made 2D games before, force myself to learn how to make 3D games using the Unity game engine in only one week because I am impatient and lack good decision making skills.

yes

very cool

#unity3d #unity #gamedev

[Stevenstuff]

yo, this video has gotten a lot more views than it deserves for being as dumb and badly put together as it was, so I feel like I should clear a few things up.

First off, to game devs who are just starting out: don't attempt to do exactly what I did, because it probably won't work out well. And I'm not saying this because I think I'm smarter or better at game dev than you. In all honesty, I'm pretty average and tons of people could've done a lot better in my shoes. But that's just the thing, not everyone is in my shoes and has the same experience that I had. Prior to this I'd been making 2D games and was quite familiar with coding, so carrying that over to Unity and 3 dimensions was fairly simple. I mentioned this in the video, but I've seen too many comments in the vein of "wow this was impressive, I would never be able to do this" which frankly makes me feel a little bad, since most people probably would be able to do this if they had the same experience I had and I don't want to discourage anyone who doesn't realize this.

So I just wanted to reiterate that this was just a video made for shits and giggles by a guy who already knew how to make 2D games and wanted to apply that knowledge to 3 dimensions. Also, everyone learns at their own pace in their own way, and the rate at which that gets done doesn't really matter as long as you're able to learn what you needed to learn in the end (within reason of course, if it takes 8 years to figure out how to print "hello world", then we might have a problem). So even if you have as much experience as I did, there should be no reason to feel bad if you take more time. Because ultimately, it doesn't really matter how quickly you're able to learn how to make games. As a game developer, you develop games, and the quality of those games is really the only thing you should be worrying about, not how quickly you can make them. Of course, this mostly only applies if you're doing this as a hobby, and if you have a deadline to meet and bills to pay, you should probably worry a little more.

And on the other side of the spectrum, to those who think this video was faked: it wasn't lol. As mentioned before, I already knew how to make 2D games and how to program things, arguably the hardest part of developing games. Because of that, the focus of this video wasn't on that but rather applying what I knew to 3D games by learning 3D modelling, animation, and how to work with Unity, which was fairly easy and straightforward thanks to the massive amounts of documentation and resources available on the internet and such. But mostly this was just for shits and giggles since I find messing around with 3D games entertaining, and I feel like people may be reading into it too much lol. Also there are a few continuity errors that a few people have caught in the dates shown on my computers taskbar, but that was caused by how I usually record clips while video editing, and not when I'm actually making the games. So I just have a weird workflow.

And last thing, to YouTube: why the fuck does this have 500, 000 views. did the algorithm break? I can think of a whole lot of videos that deserve 500, 000 views, and this is definitely not one of them. so if you're watching this, go watch someone else's video or something, this one has way too many views already.

[Rehd]

"So I did some googling, and with a bit of time, I learned quantum theory and I am speaking to you through the threads of a black hole"

[EvelynciiitaahBSB]

A game developer learning how to make 3d games for years

Steven: IMMA SPEEDRUN THIS MANS WHOLE CAREER

[broken_bakschannelofgarbad]

This video taught me to spend way too much time on ragdolls when making a 3D game

[revenantgtag]

Unity and Unreal both have "un" in them but if we remove "un" we get "Real" and "ity" which makes "Reality"

[trillionviews]

Steven: learned everything in a week
Me: Learns how to make a cube in a month.

[SiobhanYmeow]

you learned to do all this in a week and i spent a whole month trying to make a sprite sheet

FOR A 2D GAME

[sarthak]

This guys humour is a gift to humanity

[SamHogan]

wat the you learned all this in 1 week?!??!??!!?!??!

[mr.squeeg]

So you learned how to:
Use unity
Make a 3d game
Use blender for modeling
Add multi-player support
Add vr support
Make ragdolls
And have them adaptively walk in 1 week while I still can't figure out how to make an inventory system

[codinginflow]

That's really f'in impressive

[SodiiumAnimation]

Me: this will be fun
1hr later: WHY ISN'T THE CAMERA ROTATING??!!!!

[hex]

Did almost more than I have done in a year, but in a week. Thank you for being another youtuber to crush my hopes and dreams. Also love the deadpan humor.

[ZaneWipfli]

4:18 That reload animation. I can't stop laughing!

[canary]

9:19 Honestly that's pretty accurate.

[Kegisi]

Man the fact that you did this in a week is really cool. I’m 14 and really into game development (but I’m really bad at it), and I’ve spent the last week trying to make a single low poly character model in blender.

[prixplox]

"temporaly disables their joints" is probably my new favourite sentence😂

[angrytrooper]

Can we appreciate how he made 3 functional games in 7 days with one being vr

[redika]

5:13
-What effect you want?
-*Y E S*

[ultimateunlimited]

Steven: "improvements"
*suspense music plays*
me: *comes back from the bathroom and screams*