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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Overview of this book

In the wake of the indie game development scene, game development tools are no longer luxury items costing up to millions of dollars but are now affordable by smaller teams or even individual developers. Among these cutting-edge applications, Blender and Unity stand out from the crowd as a powerful combination that allows small-to-no budget indie developers or hobbyists alike to develop games that they have always dreamt of creating. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover designing the game concept, constructing the gameplay, creating the characters and environment, implementing game logic and basic artificial intelligence, and finally deploying the game for others to play. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master the skills required to develop your dream game from scratch.

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Building a Game with Unity and Blender
Nov, 2015 | 250 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building a Game with Unity and Blender
Building a Game with Unity and Blender
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Creating Your Game Concept
Creating Your Game Concept
Job roles in game development
Gameplay design
Writing the game's story
Choosing a visual style
The characters concept
The environment concept
Summary
2
Creating Characters
Creating Characters
Downloading Blender
Creating the monster's 3D model
Unwrapping the monster's UV map
Creating the monster's texture
Creating the player character's 3D model
Unwrapping the player character's UV map
Summary
3
Animating Your Characters
Animating Your Characters
What is character rigging?
Creating a monster's armature
Creating the player character's armature
Weight painting
Animating characters
The 12 basic principles of animation
Summary
4
Creating the Environment
Creating the Environment
Building terrain and wall models
Building rock models
Creating rock and wall textures
Building grass models
Creating the grass texture
Summary
5
Integrating Your Assets into the Game
Integrating Your Assets into the Game
Basic user interface of Unity
Importing environment assets
Importing character assets
Summary
6
Developing the Game Structure
Developing the Game Structure
Introduction to game structure design
Planning the game flow
Designing the user interface structure
Player inputs and character movements
Creating basic artificial intelligence
Summary
7
Creating Levels and Game Progression
Creating Levels and Game Progression
Creating character attributes
Adding in-game items and power-ups
Improving enemy AI
Adding save points
Summary
8
Post-Production and Visual FX
Post-Production and Visual FX
A basic particle system
Mist particles
Torch fire
Image FX
Quality settings
Summary
9
Deploying the Game
Deploying the Game
Build settings
Player Settings
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned all the important aspects on how to design your own game as follows:

  • Introduction to important elements that you need to include in your game design, such as game genre, game mechanics, level design, storyline, and visual style

  • Explaining what is rapid prototyping and how it helps establish a solid game idea

  • The process of creating concepts for your game character and environment

In the next chapter, we will gain knowledge on how to turn our characters design into 3D models using Blender.

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