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Level Up: Build an Asteroids Space Shooter with Unity

Recreate the classic arcade hit Asteroids while learning Unity, C#, and core 2D game mechanics - perfect for leveling up your beginner game development skills.

5 Days

Average time students take to complete this course.

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Taught by: Mike Sirman
Last updated: August 2025

Rated 4.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot

What you'll learn

  • Recreate the classic Asteroids arcade game in Unity
  • Write C# scripts to control player movement and shooting
  • Implement screen wrapping for seamless gameplay
  • Design basic enemy behavior for challenge and variety
  • Use particle systems for explosions and effects
  • Add sound effects and music for player feedback
  • Fine-tune gameplay feel through adjustments and polish
  • Learn Unity best practices for your own game dev projects

This course takes you step-by-step through building your own version of the classic Asteroids arcade game in Unity. You’ll learn how to bring your game to life with C# scripts, control smooth player movement, and make objects seamlessly wrap across the screen.

Along the way, you’ll design enemies, add particle effects, and layer in sound and music to create an engaging player experience. Perfect for those with Unity basics under their belt, this course will strengthen your skills and give you a finished game you can showcase.

Note: This course is a companion course to our Build Four Awesome Unity Games with Zero Experience course. Start with that one if you have zero experience. It’s all hands-on, learning through doing. You'll pick up C# programming along the way, but only the essentials needed to start making games. No overload, no confusion. Just real, usable skills taught at the right pace.

Finally...your days of wasting time and bouncing between confusing, out-of-date, incomplete game dev tutorials are OVER.

By enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom on Discord where you'll learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Most importantly, you'll be learning from a senior industry professional that has actual real-world experience with Unity game development and the C# programming language.

What is Unity?

First perhaps we should answer...what is Unity?

Unity is an industry-leading, cross-platform game engine that is commonly used for creating 3D, 2D, AR, and VR games. It's a powerful tool that allows you to easily create and deploy games across a wide range of platforms and devices.

If you've played any video games (if you're here, we assume you have), then we're willing to bet that you've played a video game built using Unity... and now you can learn how they're made and build your own.

Why has Unity become so popular to use?

  1. Unity offers a wide range of features and tools that make the game development process user-friendly
  2. It has built-in physics systems, animation systems, and supports a wide range of third-party assets and tools so that you can build anything your imagination can create
  3. There's a large community of developers who contribute to Unity's development, so it's constantly improving and staying at the leading edge of game development.

These reasons are also a big part of what makes candidates with Unity skills so in-demand.

What's the bottom line?

This course is the most fun way for a total beginner to get up-to-speed with building their own games with Unity from scratch.

And... you have nothing to lose.

You can start learning right now and if this course isn't everything you expected, we'll refund you 100% within 30 days. No hassles and no questions asked.

When's the best time to get started? Today!

There's never a bad time to learn in-demand skills. But the sooner, the better. So start building your Asteroids game in Unity today by joining the ZTM Academy. You'll have a clear roadmap to build your own games, get hired, and advance your career.

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Course curriculum

To make sure this course is a good fit for you, you can start building your Asteroids game in Unity for free right now by clicking any of the PREVIEW links below.

Introduction

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Important Note: This is Level 2

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Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor

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Course Resources

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Level Up: Build an Asteroids Space Shooter with Unity

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Where To Go From Here?

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Meet your instructor

Your Unity Game Development instructor (Mike) isn't just an expert with years of real-world professional experience. He has been in your shoes. He makes learning fun. He makes complex topics feel simple. He will motivate you. He will push you. And he will go above and beyond to help you succeed.

Mike Sirman

Hi, I'm Mike Sirman!

Mike uses his years of experience in professional and indie game development to teach and guide new students to learn to code, get hired and become successful Game Developers.

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Mike Sirman

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Frequently asked questions

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

  • Basic Unity knowledge is required. Don't have that? No worries! Start with the companion course, Build Four Awesome Unity Games with Zero Experience, to learn the basics of Unity. Think of it just like gaming: that course is Level 1. And this course is Level 2.

Do you provide a certificate of completion?

We definitely do and they are quite nice. You will also be able to add Zero To Mastery Academy to the education section of your LinkedIn profile as well.

Are there subtitles?

Yes! We have high quality subtitles in 6 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, and Hindi.

You can even adjust the text size, color, background and more so that the subtitles are perfect just for you!

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