Mobile Game Development with Unity : Build Once, Deploy Anywhere

Do you want to build mobile games, but lack game development experience? No problem. This practical guide shows you how to create beautiful, interactive content for iOS and Android devices with the Unity game engine.

Authors Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison ( iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook ) provide a top-to-bottom overview of Unity's features with specific, project-oriented guidance on how to use them in real game situations. Over the course of this book, you'll learn hands-on how to build 2D and 3D games from scratch that will hook and delight players. If you have basic programming skills, you're ready to get started.

Explore the basics of Unity, and learn how to structure games, graphics, scripting, sounds, physics, and particle systems Use 2D graphics and physics features to build a side-scrolling action game Create a 3D space combat simulator with projectile shooting and respawning objects, and learn how to manage the appearance of 3D models Dive into Unity's advanced features, such as precomputed lighting, shading, customizing the editor, and deployment

Author Notes

Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison are co-founders of Secret Lab, an independent game development studio based in Tasmania, Australia.

Preface	p. ix
Part I The Basics of Unity
1 Introducing Unity	p. 3
Hello, Book	p. 3
Hello, Unity	p. 4
2 A Tour of Unity	p. 7
The Editor	p. 7
The Scene View	p. 11
The Hierarchy	p. 14
The Project View	p. 15
The Inspector	p. 17
The Game View	p. 19
Wrapping Up	p. 19
3 Scripting in Unity	p. 21
A Crash Course in C#	p. 22
Mono and Unity	p. 23
Game Objects, Components, and Scripts	p. 25
Important Methods	p. 28
Coroutines	p. 31
Creating and Destroying Objects	p. 33
Attributes	p. 36
Time in Scripts	p. 39
Logging to the Console	p. 40
Wrapping Up	p. 40
Part II Building a 2D Game: Gnome on a Rope
4 Getting Started Building the Game	p. 43
Game Design	p. 44
Creating the Project and Importing Assets	p. 50
Creating the Gnome	p. 52
Rope	p. 61
Wrapping Up	p. 77
5 Preparing for Gameplay	p. 79
Input	p. 79
Setting Up the Gnome's Code	p. 96
Setting Up the Game Manager	p. 109
Preparing the Scene	p. 122
Wrapping Up	p. 124
6 Building Gameplay with Traps and Objectives	p. 125
Simple Traps	p. 125
Treasure and Exit	p. 127
Adding a Background	p. 133
Wrapping Up	p. 134
7 Polishing the Game	p. 137
Updating the Gnome's Art	p. 138
Updating the Physics	p. 142
Background	p. 150
User Interface	p. 161
Invincibility Mode	p. 171
Wrapping Up	p. 173
8 Final Touches on Gnome's Well	p. 175
More Traps and Level Objects	p. 175
Particle Effects	p. 182
Main Menu	p. 189
Audio	p. 196
Wrapping Up and Challenges	p. 197
Part III Building a 3D Game: Space Shooter
9 Building a Space Shooter	p. 203
Designing the Game	p. 204
Architecture	p. 209
Creating the Scene	p. 210
Wrapping Up	p. 226
10 Input and Flight Control	p. 227
Input	p. 227
Flight Control	p. 233
Wrapping Up	p. 243
11 Adding Weapons and Targeting	p. 245
Weapons	p. 245
Target Reticle	p. 263
Wrapping Up	p. 264
12 Asteroids and Damage	p. 265
Asteroids	p. 265
Damage-Dealing and Taking	p. 272
Wrapping Up	p. 284
13 Audio, Menus, Death, and Explosions!	p. 285
Menus	p. 285
Game Manager and Death	p. 291
Boundaries	p. 303
Final Polish	p. 311
Wrapping Up	p. 322
Part IV Advanced features
14 Lighting and Shaders	p. 325
Materials and Shaders	p. 325
Global Illumination	p. 340
Thinking About Performance	p. 347
Wrapping Up	p. 353
15 Creating GUIs in Unity	p. 355
How GUIs Work in Unity	p. 355
Controls	p. 362
Events and Raycasts	p. 362
Using the Layout System	p. 364
Scaling the Canvas 36?
Transitioning Between Screens	p. 369
Wrapping Up	p. 369
16 Editor Extensions	p. 371
Making a Custom Wizard	p. 373
Making a Custom Editor Window	p. 382
Making a Custom Property Drawer	p. 395
Making a Custom Inspector	p. 404
Wrapping Up	p. 410
17 Beyond the Editor	p. 411
The Unity Services Ecosystem	p. 411
Deployment	p. 424
Where to Go from Here	p. 435
Index	p. 437

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