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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

Unity Scripting Reference


The Unity Scripting Reference is the official central hub of documentation and information for the scripting API that Unity provides. The scripting API is basically a library with specifications (explanations) for the classes and functions of those classes.

The following screenshot shows the Unity Scripting Reference page on the official Unity website:

To access the Unity Scripting Reference, we visit the following URL:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/index.html

UnityScript is also simply called JavaScript by the Unity community and Unity documentation. Within the Unity Scripting Reference, we can search for any terms that we would like to use in our game using the search box, and we can even select the language we would like, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Unity Scripting Reference is very useful and helpful as it also provides snippets of script, as shown in the following screenshot: