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Learning Unity 2D Game Development by Example

By : Venita Pereira
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Learning Unity 2D Game Development by Example

By: Venita Pereira

Overview of this book

<p>If you are looking for a guide to create 2D games using Unity, look no further. With this book, you will learn all the essentials of 2D game development by creating five real-world games in a step-by-step manner throughout the course of this book.</p> <p>Starting with a blank scene, you will learn all about the new Unity 2D toolset, which will enable you to bring your scene to life. You will create characters, make them move, create some enemies, and then write code to destroy them. After figuring out all the necessities of creating a game, this book will then assist you in making several different games: games with collision, parallax scrolling, Box2D, and more.</p> <p>By the end of this book, you will not only have created several small games, but you will also have the opportunity to put all your new-found knowledge into creating and deploying a larger, full game.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Unity 2D Game Development by Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up Unity


We are going to set up our Unity workspace in this section. To download and install Unity, execute the following steps:

  1. Go to http://unity3d.com/unity/download.

  2. If we are installing Unity for the very first time, then we will need to sign up for a Unity account first through https://store.unity3d.com/account/users/new.

  3. Click on Looking for an older version? under the Download Unity button.

  4. We need to ensure that we select and download Unity version 4.3.4 for our platform, whether it is a PC or Mac.

  5. Follow the onscreen prompts during the installation.

  6. Make sure not to uncheck the default components as we will need them when creating our games.

  7. Once we have successfully installed Unity, we need to run the application. Run the Unity.exe application.