Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

by John P. Doran

Key Features Unleash the power of C# coding in Unity and the state of the art Unity rendering engine. Through this unique project-based approach, you will create 7-8 action-packed games from scratch. This assortment of games will take you on a fun-filled journey of becoming a full-fledged Unity game developer. Book Description

This book will help you to create exciting and interactive games from scratch with the Unity game development platform. We will build 7-8 action-packed games of different difficulty levels, and we'll show you how to leverage the intuitive workflow tools and state of the art Unity rendering engine to build and deploy mobile desktop as well as console games.

Through this book, you'll develop a complete skillset with the Unity toolset. Using the powerful C# language, we'll create game-specific characters and game environments. Each project will focus on key Unity features as well as game strategy development. This book is the ideal guide to help your transition from an application developer to a full-fledged Unity game developer

What you will learn Find out how to create exciting and interactive games using GUIs Prepare animations to be imported and exported Personalize your animation game with Unity's advanced animation system Work with different animation assets and components Customize the game by modifying the player properties and creating exterior environments Create, visualize, and edit animated creatures Familiarize yourself with best practices for Unity 5.x animation using iTween Design character actions and expressions Customize your game and prepare it for playin About the Author

John P. Doran is a technical game designer who has been creating games for over 10 years. He has worked on an assortment of games in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional projects in different roles, from game designer to lead UI programmer. He previously worked at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313 as a game designer. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, with a Bachelor of Science in game design.

John is currently a part of DigiPen's Research and Development branch in Singapore in addition to DigiPen Game Studios. He is also the lead instructor of the DigiPen-Ubisoft Campus Game Programming Program, instructing graduate-level students in an intensive, advanced-level game programming curriculum. In addition to that, he also tutors and assists students in various subjects and gives lectures on C#, C++, Unreal, Unity, game design, and more.

He is the author of Unreal Engine Game Development Cookbook, Building an FPS Game in Unity, Unity Game Development Blueprints, Getting Started with UDK, UDK Game Development, Mastering UDK Game Development, and he cowrote UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide, all available from Packt Publishing. More information about him can be found at http://johnpdoran.com.

Table of Contents 2D Twin-stick Shooter Creating GUIs GUIs Part 2 – Clicker Game Mobile Endless Game – Procedural Content Shooting Gallery – Working with Animations and Tweens Side-scrolling Platformer First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments First-person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implem

Genres: Reference

428 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 25, 2016

Reviews

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me a while to get through this book, mostly since I was trying to get some of the tutorials to work in Unity 2018 and the game code didn't work. But once I downloaded the version used in the book, I didn't have any problems at all. Each tutorial is written out very well, explained clearly, and have plenty of screenshots to help you along in case you get stuck.

I will mention the one problem I ran into was with the Shooting Gallery game, where it took me about 2 hours and damn near starting my work over again from scratch to figure out what the problem was, where one line of code made my entire game crash. The code was meant to be in Start() and not in Awake(). So make sure you check the code for the game you're working on and have the book provided code also open so you can copy and paste in what you need. I know it sometimes feels like cheating when you can see all the working code before you're finished the tutorial, but this time around I was very glad to have it.

Other than that, this is a really good book! I hope there will be an updated version sometime in the future since there are a lot of very good concepts that are covered that can be used when making future games.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a great introduction to Unity because it takes you through a great range of games that give you experience in using several aspects of Unity. It contains the following: Twin-stick shooter, UI Clicker, Flappy-bird style game, shooting gallery, platforming game, a horror FPS style game, and platforming level editor.

[Scott Bromander · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would put this a little closer to a 4.5 but rounded up. Ultimately, I love the approach it has for beginners tackling Unity. Starting with some basic UIs, working up to 2D, then wrapping up with 3D. Ultimately, I felt like the 3D section of the book was a huge step backwards in flow. That said, the UI and 2D are tremendous.

Have been a teacher of programming and game development for years, I think this does an awesome job scaffolding learners up in a logical way. The easy to follow examples with clean explanations make it easy for new learners to process. This book is in the arsenal of books I recommend to those beginning with Unity.