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.
Chapter 1, Creating Your Game Concept, will teach you how to design your own game, such as writing the game's story, choosing a visual style, and designing characters and environment concepts.
Chapter 2, Creating Characters, will be a step-by-step tutorial on how to create your game character in 3D using Blender.
Chapter 3, Animating Your Characters, will help you learn how to bring your game characters to life by creating different animations for the characters in Blender.
Chapter 4, Creating the Environment, will help you learn how to construct an astonishing 3D environment for your game in Blender.
Chapter 5, Integrating Your Assets into the Game, is a step-by-step tutorial on how to import your 3D assets from Blender to Unity and set up prefabs for later use.
Chapter 6, Developing the Game Structure, will help you learn how to create the user interface and start writing C# scripts to create player movements and artificial intelligence.
Chapter 7, Creating Levels and Game Progression, will help you learn how to create in-game power-ups to boost your player's ability and create save points to save your game progression.
Chapter 8, Post-Production and Visual FX, will show you how to enhance your game's visual quality by learning how to apply camera effects to your game and create numerous types of particle effects.
Chapter 9, Deploying the Game, will help you learn how to deploy your game for multiple types of platform with Unity.
You need the latest version of Blender and Unity, preferably on Windows operating system, but both programs will also work on Mac OS X.
This book is primarily for beginners who have just started to learn how to create their own games from scratch using free tools available on the Internet. This book also targets those who have had experience in developing games but have used some other expensive tools, such as Autodesk Maya, 3D Studio Max, and so on.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: we execute GotoMainMenu() by using the StartCoroutine() function, which "We will declare later."
A block of code is set as follows:
void Start ()
{
mainMenuUI.SetActive (true);
startGameUI.SetActive (false);
exitGameUI.SetActive (false);
newGameUI.SetActive (false);
}When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
public void BackMainMenuPressed()
{
selectedMode = mode.mainMenu;
pauseMenuUI.SetActive (false);
confirmUI.SetActive (true);
}New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Then, set the AO map layer's Blend mode to Multiply."
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