Unity Game Dev for Freelancers with Playfab and Photon

This will give you a general idea of the types of clients that you should avoid. Please note, after 2 years, you will hopefully develop your own game development process. So the types of clients that you should avoid will depend on your game development process, eventually! Starting out, I suggest you simply avoid the clients that I speak about in this video.

I have given a general idea about what types of clients you should avoid.

These are the general rules and principles that have worked for me and I am sharing these with you.

If you wish to be paid consistently and get paid for the work that you do as soon as you complete it, define modules and make sure that the requirements are clear. If the requirements are not clear, you will not be able to provide value to the client and therefore, will not be able to ask for the reward. This is because you might end up providing the client something that they did not ask for.

I will list the 3 websites that I use to provide services. I will also talk a bit about how they work and what you need to know before signing up.

I will talk about the types of inquires that you may receive when working on platforms such as Upwork, Fiverr or Guru. It is strongly recommended that you download this video and keep it as a reference

I will talk about the types of inquires and how you should respond to the inquires.

After you have responded to the initial inquiry, you will need to converse with the client and close the deal. In this video, I will give a general idea of how you can converse with clients and start working on a project.

Using these easy to learn but hard to master techniques and tricks, you will be able to generate more sales.

In this video, I go over some of the example conversations, that I created. The last one in the video is an actual conversation that i had with a client. This will give you an idea of how to converse with a client when they contact you. I will not go over each and every client type that I spoke about in the previous video.

We will import The Client's assets (taken from Kenny's Assets) into the project and organize the files.

I will import the Playfab Editor Extensions and explain how to create a 'Title' on the Playfab Dashboard.

In this part, we will start creating the Buttons for Login and Register using the assets that the client gave to us. I will also explain how I communicate with a client after I identify a problem.

I also explain when to take screenshots to give to the client as that is important.

We will start creating a script that will help us activate and deactivate different game objects that are required for the game to work properly.

We will create the input fields and menus required for the registration and login to work.

In the next few lectures, we will also learn how to send the input field data to perform registrations and logins.

We will register our first user using Playfab's user registration functions

We will create a login system for the user that we registered in the last lecture

We will learn how to use Gmail to send a verification email to a new user

We will first upload all our data to the Unity Cloud using Plastic SCM. We will then write our first Playfab Cloud Script to save user's data on the PlayFab back-end

This is just an video that you can use as a template. We will simply send a video to the client. In the video, we will tell the client what we have done and then request that they release the funds for the current module.

Let's pretend that the client asked me to add a forgot password/account recovery system. Since it was outside of the scope of work for module 1, we will charge $35 for it.

Playfab already provides an account recovery feature. We will use it.

Let's pretend and client and I spoke, and we defined module 2. Module 2 is clearly defined here.

In this video, we will take a look at the references that the client sent for friends menu and the leaderboard menu

I will setup the main menu buttons in this lecture. There will be no coding at all.

We will add an option to update the Win Loss Record of any player using a cloud script before making the leaderboards

We will create part of the main menu and start add some code to make the buttons function on the main menu

In this lecture, we will simply arrange some of the UI graphics for the leaderboard

We will create the prefab required to load the leaderboard data on the scroll view

We will start coding and will retrieve leaderboard data from PlayFab

We will create a few fake players which will help us populate the leaderboard and also run cloud scripts to give the fake players some stats

We will make a few adjustments and add in a new selection menu.

We will learn how to get the leaderboard around the player

We will create a new menu so that the user can view Record Time Leaderboards for the level that they chose

We will add the Record Times Leaderboard in this lecture

We will create the friends selection menu in this lecture

We will create the first few parts of the friends request menu

We will make a few edits to the Friend Request or Reject Prefab and Add a Script to It

We will start the creation of the scripts for friend requests menu and your friends menu

We start adding a basic search for friend feature

We create a cloud script to add our first friend

We load the friends on the player that the request was sent to

We will code the your friends menu and load the friends that haven't confirmed yet

We finish the friend accept and reject request system and earn $200 from the client

I simply tell what settings we require to create an Android Build

We will test our first Android build for the friends and leaderboards function

I will simply add the cloud script in the source code and give it to you. This is also how I would generally give the client the source code of the game.

We will learn how to place sounds and music files into our project files and then start using them properly

We will add the functions required to make the sounds and music function.

We will fix some the issues, that I spotted in the project.

However, we will not fix one problem that is a minor one related to layout of the leaderboard

We will fix the vertical layout group problem that we were having. This is totally optional!

We will connect to the Photon Servers

We will create a Photon Room in this video

We will create the first part of the Photon Lobby script

We continue creating the Photon Room Script

We will finish the Photon Room Script

We will create the Photon Player Avatar for the Photon Player Network Player

We will create a basic disconnection canvas for the player

We will add the 'You' Text on top of the local player!

We will sync the animations using the Photon Animator View Component

We will start setting up the player states

We will start syncing some of the variables that require it.

We will add some of the lag compensation code that Photon Themselves provide. It is far from perfect, but it is basically the best that we can do for a game with simple mechanics such as this one.

We will add the raycast to detect whether the player is on the ground or not

We will add the jump function without lag compensation for now. The webcam was also on for a while, so I apologize in advance.

I decided to look for an effective solution for the lag compensation which will not require us to use physics on the foreign client.

We will write some code that will allow us to compensate for lag. You can use this in your future games.

We will now add variable jumping which is pretty common in most 2D platformers

We will add the animation that are required to make the player jump properly.

In this video, we will add simple slope movement, and improve it in the next video

This video is to help you understand what to record and send to the client for payment after the completion of a module.

We will set the UI that will help us create the character selection system

We will create the basic character selection system (UI only) in this video

We will spawn the character that we have selected into multi-player scene

We will create a simple collider that will let us create the foundation for winning

We will create the win or lose canvas as well as the disconnection system

We will update the player data using the cloud script

We will create the ready and go canvas that is required for proper functionality

We will create a Level 1 and Level 2 spawning system.

We will start the completion time timer and then upload the data to the Playfab Console

We will place a background in the multi-player scene and then start making map using the tiles later

We will create a simple tilemap to get things started

We will setup the collider for the game that will send the player back to the start of the level

This is the last video before the course was released. We just fix multiple collider issues that we were having in previous builds.

The source code is attached! Please keep this safe with you!

We will download the mobile joystick plugin and start integrating the joystick

We will add the jump button using two different methods. One of them is the one that I believe is a more valuable solution