From Learning Unity To Working For Unity With Antonia Forster
How Would I Get Into XR, AR or VR? (25:23 - 28:08) The Unity website also provides a ton of courses on how to learn Unity, many of which include accreditations that lead to becoming a Unity approved developer. The role also includes talking to users and the development teams. youtube. linkedin.
Industry veterans Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick are joined by Antonia Forster from Unity, to discuss Antonia’s game dev journey from our Complete C# Unity Game Developer 3D Online Course to being the Senior XR Technical Specialist at Unity.
Antonia’s success story is something we can all use as inspiration. Antonia had no coding knowledge when starting the Unity 3D course and came from a zoology and animal biology background, now she works at Unity!.
In this devology livecast, Rick Davidson & Tim Ruswick* talk to Antonia about her journey in game dev and how she ended up where she is today.
(*Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. He's done it all, from Game Designer, Producer, Creative Director and Executive Producer to GameDev.tv's very own Instructor extraordinaire. Tim Ruswick is a successful YouTuber and indie dev, who's created more than 30 games in the last 5 years (wow!), and joined GameDev.tv as our marketing monster).
Listen to the whole chat here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIYmGdm7NSI
Our 'AHA' moments
- Unlike us, make sure your live stream doesn’t start with echoing 🤣
- Antonia started with our Unity 3D course and is completely self taught!
- The Quest 2 is a good option for a first time VR
- Unity Learn is a good resource to learn additional Unity skills
- Your code can be reused on other projects
- Keep good documentation of your coding
YouTube Channel.Until next time, happy dev'ing!