I recommend reaching out to both  Ket-Ralus and  Redemption3445 since their project, Oh So Hero!, uses the Unity engine!

I appreciate the heads up, man, thank you!

The official Unity Learn website has a ton of great tutorials and other information and is also currently offering 3 months of their premium service, which provides access to Unity Certified Instructors, for free. https://learn.unity.com/

Just what I came here to say.. since I also am working in Unity.

Excellent, thanks for the attention! I'm just now getting my feet wet with the program and this post was also a means of finding out who might be knowledgeable that I could potentially ask things in the future. I'll be looking up the tutorials and seeing how much of them can help me in my quest. I think what my early tasks are going to be is finding out what do I need to do just to open the door, ie: do I need to know C+, and if so how much before I can be useful in these specific tasks.

I found knowledge of C# very handy since that is how you write code beyond basic behaviors.

Happily, I (mostly) love coding.

Thirding this! Unity's site has so many great resources for learning and the documentation is also quite good. Whatever you can't find there the community has likely done it before and posted a tutorial for it.

Very good, thank you! Getting this kind of feedback is very good for steering my learning efforts. Cheers!

Thank you! I'm still really early in my exploration of Unity and have only gotten as far as understanding a bit about what the software CAN do and not much at all yet on *how* to make it do those things. I'll be giving the link a look through for sure, -thank you!

It can be overwhelming if you try to dive in before having some idea what you want to do, or learn about first. For starters, just do a tutorial that covers getting started and a tour of the UI.

Your initial post is pretty vague. Are you wanting to get a grasp on how games are made in Unity or how to make game assets? 2D or 3D? You would already be well-equipped to create 2D content for Unity and would mostly just need to learn how to import it. Unity also has its own sprite editor but I haven't messed with it. Check out the 2D workflow tutorials to learn more about the specifics of what is usually required for sprites in Unity.

There are a ton of tutorials on the Unity Learn site specific to 3D. However, if you want to create 3D content that would require a different program - or set of programs depending on the workflow or type of content you want to create.

If you want to learn to make a game from scratch...well...good luck! You'll need to learn the 2D or 3D stuff and also start picking up a good bit of C#. It's not impossible and certainly people have done it but it's a significant challenge!

Anyway, once you pick a starting point I recommend finding a tutorial that walks you through a project. Most of the ones on the Learn site also provide assets which is a great way not to get stuck making/finding your own but also are good to pick apart to see how they work (if it's not already covered in the tutorial).

Hey there, sorry for not replying to this sooner.

My usage of Unity would be in the realm of 2D asset integration for gameplay visuals and UI displays. My job search is pointed at casino / slot machine game development and there's a number of companies who would like a technical artist who knows how to work the Unity engine in this respect, although I don't know how much of the job specifics would want me to be familiar with 3D asset creation and integration. For now I'm going with what I know which is 2D assets and UI element assets.

With regards to UI development though my experience is just that, -designing the *look* of the UI elements and nothing at all about actually *building* a functioning UI, which is what I expect any job listing that mentions UI experience would want to see in a candidate, so that's the angle I'm approaching for this. I expect to need to know something about how to build a functional UI in Unity as opposed to just creating the art assets.

You've described a good plan, -I'll be going through the Unity site to review their tutorials and see what I can pick up from doing that.

Thank you!

I’m a game developer so I can help you if you have any questions! 😄

That's great to hear, thank you! I'll send you a note if you don't mind.

I believe "Legends of Equestria" is using the Unity game engine -- but I'm only on the writing team.

Cool. Just knowing where to look for potential advice is a great step forward.

And knowing what kinds of things can be done with it gives you guidance on what to do yourself.
(What's frightening is with no participation in the coding, I've started to ponder what I'd want to do if I were designing an multiplayer online game.)