Unity with Bolt One-on-one Private Classes

The lessons are delivered as online video calls via Zoom, making it easy for your child to learn to code wherever in the world you are. Based on the trial, we and you will know exactly, where your child should start. Then, the course progresses at your child’s pace - our tutor will slow down to explain more difficult topics and speed up, when your child feels confident with a certain area of learning. While booking the trial and actual course, you can select the day and time that best suits your schedule. If you cannot find one, please get in touch. If your child has their own project idea out tutors can incorporate our curriculum into your child’s idea. Our Tutors study industry ready Game Courses at University so will be able to help with any aspect of creating a game.

Create your own game WITH BOLT

Our lessons allow your child to create their very own game, using an idea that they have. Our Tutors have the expertise to help create your child’s vision using Unity and Bolt. As each lesson is custom crafted to fit your child’s idea we offer fun and engaging lessons working towards your child’s passion project. The skills learnt within Unity and Bolt will allow for much more creative projects as each lesson progresses, further building up the skills required to make any game that your child wishes.

Each game a child makes is completely different, here are a few example of projects that we think are a great starting point:

• Tower Defense Game

• Trading Card Game

• Role-Playing Game

• Platformer

• First Person Shooter

• Puzzle Games

Keep in mind that this is just an example of the projects and games we can create. We will mainly focus on using pre-existing assets all available for free, so don’t worry if you cannot create your own artwork!

Our tutors have an expert knowledge of both Unity and Bolt, so can tailor your child’s experience to what they wish to achieve. This offers an unbeatable level of personalisation.

What is Unity?

Unity is one of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platforms. It provides the tools to make great games and publish them to a wide range of devices: whether you want your games on PC, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch or your smartphone, Unity gives you what you need to easily craft games, and share them through any popular gaming device.

What is BOLT?

Bolt is a visual scripting environment designed for Unity. Bolt allows the simplicity of drag and drop programming but with the power of Unity. Bolt is a great tool allowing anyone to get started in making games without needing to learn a programming language. Simply drag and drop and you will have a game built in no time at all. If your child has any experience with scratch and is looking for a next step this is an ideal course for them.

The beauty of Bolt comes from the ability to allow anyone to create a game without writing code. This is an excellent tool used in the games industry to allow for rapid prototyping but is also used to create fully developed and released games. Bolt is an excellent doorway into the world of Unity.

TRY FREE ONLINE GAMES IN UNITY

There are several games you can play online in Unity. Itch.io contains lots of free games that are made in Unity. Simmer.io also has many games available to play. You can view our favourite online games here. These games give an example of what your child will be capable of making after the full online camp.

TOP GAMES MADE IN UNITY

Among the many games made using Unity over the years, there are top-selling titles worth millions such as:

UNity and BOLT knowledge levels

Our coursework is tailor-made to the individual skills and knowledge of the child. However, we’ll make sure to cover all the 6 distinct Unity and Bolt knowledge levels in our curriculum:

• Level 1 - Children with no prior knowledge of Unity and Bolt

• Levels 2 - 4 - Children with varying degrees of Unity and Bolt knowledge; from using 2D graphics to complex 3D modeling; language structures cover conditionals, loops, variables, objects, queries, and much more, all within the simple to use Bolt.

• Level 5+ - at this stage children know most of Unity and Bolt. They are able to create most of simple games. At this stage our focus shifts toward game design and development, in order to allow students to plan and develop a full Unity application and to release there project for others to play.

We tailor our course to the needs of every child while keeping existing knowledge alive by reapplying it in new programming contexts. We aim to progress children from level to level approximately every term. As they reach level 5 our focus changes. We start with an introduction to Particle Effects and Visual Shader Graph in Unity, exploring modern state-of-the-art techniques in professional game development. Even professionals use Bolt! Once students are comfortable with these powerful features included in Unity, we move on to discussing, developing and applying our knowledge in a real game that the children will project from scratch. And as there is no end to computing skills, so there is no end to our course - there is always the next level - the next piece of knowledge to acquire.

Our tutors make it a personalized, exciting and valuable experience

Our experienced tutors will tailor our best in the industry curriculum to suit all students participating in the online course. One-to-one private tuition provide personalized instruction that helps everyone progress at their own pace while being appropriately challenged. Here, at Educademy, we believe it’s more important to ensure every student reaches a good level of understanding than to cover all the topics scheduled for the lesson.

Creating your very own game can be a daunting task, yet our tutors are here every step of the way to create interesting, fun and exciting lessons to help you reach and accomplish your goal.

LEARN UNITY - LEARN COMPUTER SCIENCE - LEARN GAMES

In this online course, students will use Unity to create their very own game, tailor made from their very own design. Throughout this they will also be learning the fundamentals of using Unity and Bolt. During the course, they will create several games based upon their own ideas or create a game that is built upon each week. As everything is custom to your child, it’s their choice. We use our lessons to continue building upon your child’s skills to help improve their confidence so that they can create anything they wish within Unity using Bolt. As our Tutors are experts in not only games programming but also game design the course is littered with insightful knowledge of how to create a project plan, prioritising tasks and hitting milestones. Your child is not just restricted to asking about Unity as our tutors offer a wealth of knowledge.

Learning objectives

• Bolt Skills: Students will gain a foundational knowledge of creating blueprints within Bolt and will feel confident that they can bring new features into existence with this knowledge.

• Unity Skills: You will have the confidence that, given enough time and resources, you can create anything you want in Unity.

• Soft skills (collaboration, creativity, communication, critical thinking).

• Growth mindset.

• Independent learning skills.

• Project planning and prototyping.

Fun and sense of achievement

At the core of our approach is the understanding that children learn the most though fun. At Educademy we ensure that each lesson is engaging and entertaining. We ensure every student comes out of it with an enormous sense of achievement. To us, children and their creations are at the centre of the course and we create this wonderful learning environment by tailoring every lesson to each child.

There is more to UNITY THAN CODING

Unity offers a great opportunity to create freely, and without any programming skills required because of Bolt. Your child can pursue their very own passion project with the help of our tutors to create an excellent final product. Our tutors will help your child share their game with their friends so that they can explore the full potential of creating a game.

Educademy’s mission is to create a lasting positive outcome. Deep in children’s minds we plant a feeling that they can create wonderful programs. They learn to overcome challenges. They know they can and will succeed in the very field of Computer Science. Equipped with that feeling they are able to face challenges in other areas of their education and future life. They already know they are really good at something. It’s only a matter of time they’ll replicate this success in other areas.

Do you have a group of friends that would like to have a lesson together? Please get in touch for a quote