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title: "My first attempts with Unity"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-attempts-with-unity-xvz93mley
source_url: https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2021/09/01/first-game-with-unity.html
type: article
source: "A Day in the Life Of"
published: 2026-03-31T12:29:57.785Z
updated: 2026-03-31T12:56:34.743Z
tags: ["game-development", "c#", "unity"]
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# My first attempts with Unity

**[A Day in the Life Of](https://daily.dev/sources/adayinthelife)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A developer shares their experience building a first game in Unity, inspired by M.C. Escher's 'Relativity' lithograph. The game features a rotatable 3D cube where players collect items, with gravity and perspective shifting as the cube rotates. Key challenges covered include: setting up a HUD canvas for UI elements, building a JSON-based level editor, implementing grid-based player movement using DOTween for smooth transitions, handling cube rotation, creating a main menu with responsive layouts, migrating to Unity's new Input System for multi-device support, implementing portals using shader graphs, building a theming system, and integrating Unity Analytics and ads. The post is an honest beginner's account of learning Unity from scratch, including the stumbles and workarounds encountered along the way.

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