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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

By : Lee Zhi Eng

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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

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By: Lee Zhi Eng

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Creating Your Game Concept

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Integrating Your Assets into the Game

Basic user interface of Unity

Importing environment assets

Importing character assets

Summary

6. Developing the Game Structure

6. 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

7. 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

8. Post-Production and Visual FX

A basic particle system

Mist particles

Torch fire

Image FX

Quality settings

Summary

9. Deploying the Game

9. Deploying the Game

Build settings

Player Settings

Summary

Index

Index

Summary

Unity makes multiplatform publishing easy for game developers with just a click of a button, which traditionally costs a big sum of money just to port a game to a different platform. This has totally changed the landscape of game development, where smaller game developer teams are now able to publish their games for multiple platforms without worrying about the budget and technical know-how. On the other hand, big studios can also take advantage of this to reduce development risk and gain more sales to cover their enormous development costs.

We have now come to the end of the book. I hope you have gained the sufficient knowledge and acquired the skills to kickstart your first game project! I sincerely apologize if you think there is anything that I could have done better or if there is anything you feel is lacking in the book. Do contact me if there is. All the best!

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