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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

Advanced debugging


No matter how much time you spend in the Unity editor, it is always helpful to have some more advanced debugging options, especially those options that can be run completely disconnected from your development machine. The following is a table of some advanced debugging tools you may want to consider using:

Tool

Ease of Use

Description

Source/Link

HUDDebug

Easy: download from the asset store

This creates a great integrated debugging tool on the platform. It supports a console, FPS, memory, heap, and extensions.

Search for HUDDebug on the Unity Asset store

Unity Remote 5

Easy: Difficult - may experience connection issues

This is a fantastic tool when it works. It will allow you to run a game on a mobile device, and track UI and game input with the editor. However, it can be problematic to run because of connection issues. Hopefully, this tool will overcome these issues in future releases.

Search for Unity Remote in your App store

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