Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

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Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran

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Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

<p>This book will help you to create exciting and interactive games from scratch with the Unity game development platform. We will build 7-8 action-packed games of different difficulty levels, and we’ll show you how to leverage the intuitive workflow tools and state of the art Unity rendering engine to build and deploy mobile desktop as well as console games.</p> <p>Through this book, you’ll develop a complete skillset with the Unity toolset. Using the powerful C# language, we’ll create game-specific characters and game environments. Each project will focus on key Unity features as well as game strategy development. This book is the ideal guide to help your transition from an application developer to a full-fledged Unity game developer</p>

Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

2D Twin-stick Shooter

2D Twin-stick Shooter

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating our scene

Implementing player movement

Shooting behavior

Creating enemies

Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves

Particle systems for enemy explosion

Adding in sound effects/music

Adding in points, score, and wave numbers

Publishing the game

Creating GUIs

Project overview

Creating the main menu level

Adding a header text object

Adding main menu buttons

Pausing the game

Restarting the game

Creating an Options menu

GUIs Part 2 – Clicker Game

GUIs Part 2 – Clicker Game

Project overview

Starting our project

Recording and displaying clicks

Creating a shop

Opening/closing the shop

Purchasing upgrades

Mobile Endless Game – Procedural Content

Mobile Endless Game – Procedural Content

Project overview

Adding the background

Adding a simple animated character

Making a repeating background

Working with sorting layers

Creating our player behaviour

Creating obstacles

Spawning obstacles at runtime

Game start and end behaviours

Shooting Gallery – Working with Animations and Tweens

Shooting Gallery – Working with Animations and Tweens

Project overview

Creating the environment

Adding a target

Creating many targets

Creating waves of targets

Adding in a time limit

Adding in Score/High score

Project completed

Side-scrolling Platformer

Side-scrolling Platformer

Project overview

Tile-based level creation

Creating our player

Creating Collectibles

Winning the game

First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

Project overview

Introduction to terrain

Exterior environment – terrain

Adding color to our terrain – textures

Adding in details – grass

Building atmosphere

First-person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

First-person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

Project overview

Importing assets

Placing tiles with grid snapping

Creating and placing props

Lightmapping quickstart

First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating our player

Adding a flashlight

Creating our weapon

Creating an enemy

Damaging and killing enemies

Using controller input

Moving to other levels

Building an In-Game Level Editor

Building an In-Game Level Editor

Project overview

Level editor – introduction

Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime

Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles

Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Finishing Touches

Finishing Touches

Project overview

Setting up the build settings

Customizing your exported project via the player settings

Building an installer for Windows

Index

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Starting our project

To get started, let's create a new project for us to work with:

With Unity started from the launcher, select File | New Project. From there, give it a name (I used ClickerGame) and a Project Location of your choice and make sure that 2D is selected. Afterwards, click on Create project:
Now that we are inside the editor, let's start off by creating our button, which we will use to click. From the Project tab, create a folder named Sprites and open it up. Then, right-click from the folder and select Import New Asset… and select the button.png file from inside of the Art Assets folder. Alternatively, you can use your own asset as it's just a way to make the button different from the default one.
To create the basic button, we will customize start off by going to GameObject | UI | Button. From the Hierarchy tab, open up the Button object by clicking on the triangle next to the name and then delete the Text object by selecting it and then pressing the Del key. Then, select the...