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Unity Game Development Essentials

By : Will Goldstone
Book Image

Unity Game Development Essentials

By: Will Goldstone

Overview of this book

Game engines are central to the video games we know and love. From the artwork to the mathematics that underpin the frames onscreen, the engine calls the shots. Aside from offering one of the leading 3D game engines, Unity also provides a superlative development tool ñ a tool that can produce professional standard games for Mac, PC, and the Unity Web Player. This book is a complete exercise in game development covering environments, physics, sound, particles, and much more, to get you up and working with Unity quickly. Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games before getting to grips with development in Unity itself. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating simple game elements you will learn everything you'll need to get started with game development for the PC, Mac, and Web. This book is designed to cover a set of easy to follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. By introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you'll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Unity Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have covered various topics that you will find crucial when creating any game scenario. We have looked at implementing rigid body objects that use the physics engine. This is something you'll likely expand upon in many other game scenarios while working with Unity. We also explored the concept of instantiation, something that is very important to get to grips with, as it means you can create or clone any prefab asset or game object during runtime — a very useful tool in your game-designing arsenal.

We also gave the player further feedback by reusing our TextHint GUI object made in Chapter 5 and worked across scripts in order to send the information to this object.

These are concepts you will continue to use in the rest of this book and in your future Unity projects. In the next chapter, we'll take a break from coding and take a look at more of Unity's aesthetic effects. We'll explore the use of particle systems to create a fire outside the outpost cabin — giving...