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Augmented Reality Game Development

By : Micheal Lanham
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Augmented Reality Game Development

By: Micheal Lanham

Overview of this book

The heyday of location-based augmented reality games is upon us. They have been around for a few years, but the release of Pokémon Go was a gamechanger that catalyzed the market and led to a massive surge in demand. Now is the time for novice and experienced developers alike to turn their good ideas into augmented reality (AR) mobile games and meet this demand! If you are keen to develop virtual reality games with the latest Unity 5 toolkit, then this is the book for you. The genre of location-based AR games introduces a new platform and technical challenges, but this book will help simplify those challenges and show how to maximize your game audience. This book will take you on a journey through building a location-based AR game that addresses the core technical concepts: GIS fundamentals, mobile device GPS, mapping, map textures in Unity, mobile device camera, camera textures in Unity, accessing location-based services, and other useful Unity tips. The technical material also discusses what is necessary for further development to create a multiplayer version of the game. At the end, you will be presented with troubleshooting techniques in case you get into trouble and need a little help.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Augmented Reality Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


For most of this chapter, we wrote and updated the various core scripts needed to track the monsters on the map. We first started by understanding some fundamental math to calculate spatial distances. Then, we moved on to to understanding GPS accuracy and the factors that influence accuracy. After that, we jumped into scripting the monster service script and other dependent scripts. Next, we added prefab instantiation code to the monster script in order to show a simple prefab on the map. Then, we imported a new monster character into the game and configured a new monster prefab. Through testing, we determined there were a few issues yet to be resolved. These we then resolved through a script update and review. Then, finally we implemented a way to track audible monsters using a simple footstep icon that we added as a new UI element.

In the next chapter, we allow the player to try and catch the monsters inside an alternate reality view. This will be the first chapter where we will...