Hi, my name is Athul. I'm a Software Engineer who is passionate about Game Programming

The problem I'm trying to solve
Most of the unity tutorials on youtube are beginner-level that focuses on creating something without considering good practices, design patterns, etc. This is fine when you're making a small game like flappy bird, but for bigger games (like an RPG), it's important to architect it in a scalable way using design patterns and good development practices, otherwise, it will become too messy and frustrating to work on as it grows.

I focus on creating intermediate-level tutorial series that covers the creation of games using a good and scalable architecture. Before making a tutorial, I make sure the code is clean and readable.

Tutorial series I'm working on

Turn-Based RPG like Pokemon in Unity - In this series,  I've covered topics like turn-based battle systems, grid-based movement, random encounters with wild pokemon, storing the data of pokemon as scriptable objects

Game Dev Experiments

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This is Part 109 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll start refactor the ActionSelection & MoveSelection state of the battle system to use the StateStack Architecture.

0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Refactor the ActionSelection state
12:29 - Refactor the MoveSelection state
33:04 - Test

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0:00 - Demo
1:09 - Updating unity version
3:45 - Create Cutscene Actions
9:48 - Custom Editor for Cutscenes

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #109 - Battle Sub States Refactor

This is Part 108 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll refactor the battle state to use the State Stack Architecture.

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0:00 - Overview
0:51 - Create Battle State
15:11 - Attach the state & test

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #108 - Refactor Battle State

This is Part 105 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll refactor the inventory screen using Generic Selector Component and State Stack Architecture.

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0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Use GenericSelector for item selection
11:01 - Use StateStack for handling Inventory State
16:50 - Go to Party State when an item is selected

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #105 - Refactor Inventory Screen

This is Part 106 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll refactor the code for using items using the State Stack architecture.

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0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Create new state for using item
11:36 - Push the UsetItem state when an item & pokemon is selected
12:04 - Wait for the pushed state to complete & return
17:53 - Test

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #106 - Refactor Using Items

This is Part 107 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll refactor the code for forgetting moves using generic selector & state stack architecture.

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0:00 - Create a state for Move To Forget Selection
1:48 - Refactor MoveSelectionUI to use Generic Selector
4:03 - Implement MoveToForget state
11:01 - Push MoveToForget state if there are no move slots left
16:44 - Clean up the old/unused code
19:01 - Fix errors, assign script/references
20:57 - Test

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #107 - Refactor Forgetting Moves

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Hey Everyone, we have added a new module to our parkour system course on Udemy. It covers how to create a climbing system like the one you see in games like Assassins Creed. We'll build the climbing system on top of the parkour system while reusing the code we've written for it.

This is a free expansion. so if you've already bought the course, you'll have access to it right now. If not, you can get the course for a discounted price using this link - https://fantaco.de/unity-parkour-system

Create a Climbing System in Unity (Free Course Update)

This is Part 104 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll refactor the party screen using Generic Selector and State Stack Architecture. We'll also add Grid Selection to the Generic Selector.

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0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Use GenericSelector to handle selection in PartyScreen
9:39 - Use StateStack for hanlding Party State 
18:48 - Implement Grid Selection in GenericSelector

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #104 - Refactor Party Screen with Generic Selector & State Stack

This is Part 103 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In the previous video, we started implementing the Generic Selector component and we used it to handle selection in our menu. But right now, we can only change the selection in the menu, we can't use the Z or Action button to choose an item and we can't use the X or back button to go back. So we'll add that functionality to the generic selector in this video.

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0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Create OnAction & OnBack Events in the selector
2:53 - Setup input for Action & Back actions (For controller support)
5:54 - Invoke the events if input buttons are pressed
6:49 - Subscribe to the events from the Menu State
10:38 - Testing & Reviewing the Geenric Selector code

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #103 - Generic Selector 2

This is Part 102 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll implement a generic selector component which we can use for handling all the selection in our game. So we just have to build it once and we reuse it's code for all the selection. So this will make our code a lot more cleaner & easier to maintain, and the generic selector will also work really well with our state stack architecture. We'll also add controller support to the generic selector.

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0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Reason for using Generic Selector
2:45 - Create Generic Selector
15:33 - Use Genric Selector for the menu selection
22:35 - Slow down the selection using a timer

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #102 - Generic Selector & Controller Input

This is Part 101 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll start refactoring our game to use a State Stack Architecture for handling states instead of using Enums. State Stack Architecture is much more scalable than our current approach and it will make it easy to implement features like layered menu in the future.

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0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Limitations of current architecture
6:50 - State Stack/State Machine Implementation
20:06 - Use StateMachine & Create FreeRoam State
27:00 - Pusing & Poping Menu State

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #101 - State Stack Architecture

This is Part 100 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll improve the cutscene system. We'll add more cutscene actions and improve the custom editor for building cutscenes.

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0:00 - Thank you for your support
0:58 - What we'll do in this video
1:20 - Add Undo feature to the custom editor
7:36 - Add more actions
13:10 - Improve custom editor UI

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #100 - Improving Cutscenes

This is Part 99 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll add more actions to our cutscene builder. We'll create an action for turning the characters in any direction we want, and another actions for changing the positions of objects in the scene during the cutscene.

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0:00 - Intro
1:28 - Turn Actor Action
9:16 - Teleport Object Action & Moving NPC back to original position

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #99 - More Cutscene Actions

This is Part 98 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll customize the cutscene actor selection UI using Custom Property Drawers.

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0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Customize Actor Selection UI using Custom Property Drawers
16:24 - Only show the Character Object Field if IsPlayer toggle is off

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #98 - Customizing Cutscene Actor Selection UI

This is Part 97 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll look at how to run cutscene actions parallelly. We'll also look at how to move the player character in the cutscene.

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0:00 - Demo
1:14 - Moving player in Cutscene
9:08 - Player following NPC Cutscene
11:48 - Run actions parallelly
15:03 - Don't check collisions when moving characters in Cutscene

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #97 - Cutscenes 3 - Parallel Actions

This is Part 96 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll start implement a custom cutscene builder which which we can easily create cutscenes from the editor.

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0:00 - Demo
1:07 - Implement Cutscene Action
6:29 - Create Cutscene to prevent the player from leaving town
8:42 - Triggering Cutscenes
11:25 - Testing & What's next

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #96 Cutscenes 2 - Implementing Cutscene Actions

Checkout the full Third Person Parkour System Course here -  https://bit.ly/unity-parkour-course-june

Hey everyone, in this video we'll create a Third Person Controller in Unity. We won't be using any assets to build it, we'll build it completely from scratch because it's a good way to learn the fundamentals of 3D game programming, 
and it will give you the knowledge to customize the controller for your own games. 

So while building the controller, you'll learn important concepts like 
- unity's character controller component
- camera relative movement, 
- humanoid retargeting for reusing animations on multiple characters,
- using physics for ground detection, etc.

0:00 - Introduction & Demo
1:03 - Project Setup
4:30 - Camera Controller
27:24 - Character Movement
48:04 - Setup Animations
1:04:59 - Animating the character
1:20:25 - Collisions & Gravity
1:45:28 - Contoller Input
1:51:03 - What next?

If you want to build upon this and and create a more advanced controller that can perform parkour actions then checkout our Unity Third Person Parkour System course here 
https://bit.ly/unity-parkour-course-june

Create a Third Person Controller in Unity from scratch

This is Part 96 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll start implementing cutscene actions and we'll create a simple cutscene.

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #95 - Cutscene Builder

This is Part 94 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll improve the battles so that it'll show different backgrounds based on from where the battle started. We'll also improve our custom inspector for validating the chance percentage of wild pokemon.

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0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Changing battle backgrounds
8:30 - Improve MapArea custom editor validations
16:51 - Fixing chance percentage calculation bug

Download the art assets needed to follow along with this series
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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #94 - Improving Battles from Water

This is Part 93 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll add wild encounters when the player is surfing through the water.

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0:00 - Intro
1:13 - Surfing bug fixes
4:17 - Triggering encounters while surfing
12:43 - Testing

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Make A Game Like Pokemon in Unity | #93 - Battles From Water

This is Part 92 of Make a Game Like Pokemon Series in Unity. In this video, we'll implement the Surfing Mechanic.

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0:00 - Demo
1:18 - Adding water
9:00 - Surf Mechanic
17:50 - Moving from water & Surf Animations
23:32 - Going back to Land when Surfing

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