Unity Workshop 2023

The 'Unity Engine Workshop' was organized by the ACM Student Chapter of Don Bosco Institute of Technology on the 13th and 14th of October 2023 from 11am to 3pm. This session was organized to impart knowledge and provide the necessary skills for designing and developing games using the Unity Engine Software. The workshop lasted two days and was open to participants both online and offline

The first day of the Unity Engine workshop began precisely at 1 lam by Ms. Nicole Saldanha and Ms. Ria D'costa welcomed the guest speakers, Mr. Marmik Timbadiia the senior Unity Developer and Mr. Aryan Sason the senior Unreal Developer, Game Institute India, to the audience. The opening ceremony of the Unity workshop was also graced with the presence of Mr. Gopal Sharma, co-founder of Game Institute of India, Dr Sudhakar Mande, Principal of Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Dr. Phiroz Shaikh, HOD, Computer Department, Prof. Imran Mirza, faculty coordinator of ACM-DBIT, Mr. Shashank Rasal, business and media coordinator of Game Institute India and Ms. Swapna Sali, Branch Manager of Game Institute India, Ghatkopar For the 1st day apart from having the workshop offline, the students were also provided a google meet link. Mr Shashank Rasal began the program by engaging the students by presenting them with a thorough introduction to game creation and the gaming business. Mr. Marmik Timhadua then introduced the pupils to the Unity Engine program. During the event, participants were shown step by step how to install and utilize the Unity system Mentors were on hand to assist students with any questions they may have Various ideas were shown and discussed to them as the program continued. The students were taught the fundamentals of creating 20 games with the Unity engine. Participants were also shown how to obtain sprites for games from the Unity Asset Store Ms. Nicole Saldanha then concluded the first day by thanking the Game Institute India developers for attending and participating in this session.

Day 2 of the Unity workshop commenced on 14 October at lam. This was conducted online, via a live You Tube stream. In addition to this, students were able to freely ask doubts to their mentors who were connected with each other, and with Game Institute via a discord call. The workshop was conducted by Unity Developer, Marmik. The students were demonstrated how they can use the sprites they have downloaded in the previous session in their games. They were also explained how movements and various other effects were added in the game. At the end of the session the students were also guided on how to deploy their game

Although the participation on day2 majoriy dropped, the students had access to onime recordings of the same, and greatly benefitted from those. Numerous resources were provided to students, including recorded lectures on development of top-down games, past year unity game development workshop recordings, as well as several resources made available to students via Game Institute, India

Following the workshop, the ACM core felicitated Game Institute, India with tokens of appreciation at their office in Ghatkopar East