Level Up! Game Development for Teens

Welcome to the Level Up! Game Development for Teens group hosted by Pekin Public Library. We are fostering a makerspace for all teenagers who want to learn more about what goes into building video games and build their own.


Click any session to be taken to the lesson for that week.


Be sure to check our resources page for any additional downloads or tools that we might be using. You can visit it above in the bar or by clicking HERE.

We start our journey in Unity game development with learning basics while playing with a microgame tutorial.

Week Two

March 1st, 2021

We explore Unity Playground and cover the base elements of game creation.

We take our first steps into C# programming with Unity Game Engine and Visual Studio.

We create a small prototype of a driving game from beginning to end with C# programming.

We dive in to learning more of Unity's methods and how to put a game together from beginning to end.

We continue the game from Week Six. We set up enemies and their behaviors.

We continue the game from Week Six. We set up score, time, game over and a restart.