November 17, 2009 2:00 PM | Eric Caoili

With Unity3D now available for free, anyone can download it to their PC/Mac and start creating their own video game with the software. For those of us without any game development experience whatsoever, though, the challenge of struggling to navigate through all the panels and coding windows seems just as prohibitive as the engine's former $200 price.

To help acclimate newcomers to Unity, Infinite Ammo's Alec Holowka posted a set of videos designed to ease novices into the game authoring tool. While there are already dozens of official and unofficial tutorials online, this series has the benefit of coming from an indie dev whose games you might've previously enjoyed. Also, Infinite Ammo used the software to create all of its titles so far (Paper Moon, Heroes + Villains, Marian).

Holowka manages to make Unity feel approachable to even non-programmers like myself -- I plan to use these lessons to finally create my dream game, a 3D adventure about a cat that wakes people up. You can watch two more tutorial videos covering movement scripts, the scene editor, basic physics, and more after the break.