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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition

By : Ashley Godbold, Simon Jackson
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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition

By: Ashley Godbold, Simon Jackson

Overview of this book

The Unity engine has revolutionized the gaming industry, by making it easier than ever for indie game developers to create quality games on a budget. Hobbyists and students can use this powerful engine to build 2D and 3D games, to play, distribute, and even sell for free! This book will help you master the 2D features available in Unity 5, by walking you through the development of a 2D RPG framework. With fully explained and detailed C# scripts, this book will show you how to create and program animations, a NPC conversation system, an inventory system, random RPG map battles, and full game menus. After your core game is complete, you'll learn how to add finishing touches like sound and music, monetization strategies, and splash screens. You’ll then be guided through the process of publishing and sharing your game on multiple platforms. After completing this book, you will have the necessary knowledge to develop, build, and deploy 2D games of any genre!

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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition
Ashley Godbold | Simon Jackson
Oct, 2016 | 506 pages
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition
Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Overview
Overview
Getting assets
Unity's 2D features
Changes to Unity 5
Summary
2
Building Your Project and Character
Building Your Project and Character
Project overview and structure
Creating the project
Creating a scene
Sprite system
GameObjects and components
Classes
Planning behaviors
Coding with components
Going further
Summary
3
Getting Animated
Getting Animated
Fundamentals of sprite animation
Animating the main character
Going further
Summary
4
The Town View
The Town View
Backgrounds and layers
Building the scene
Working with the camera
Transitioning and bounds
Going further
Summary
5
Working with Unitys UI System
Working with Unitys UI System
UI Canvas
UI Text and Images
UI Layout and Rect Transform
UI Buttons
Going further
Summary
6
NPCs and Interactions
NPCs and Interactions
Considering an RPG
Advanced programming techniques
Communicating between GameObjects
Background tasks and coroutines
Serialization and scripting
Adding NPCs and a conversation system to our game
Going further
Summary
7
The World Map
The World Map
The larger view
Creating our game's map
Leaving town
Returning to town
Going further
Summary
8
Encountering Enemies and Running Away
Encountering Enemies and Running Away
Event systems
Exploring randomness
Basic Artificial Intelligence
State machines
Sensors
Setting up your battle scene
Going further
Summary
9
Getting Ready to Fight
Getting Ready to Fight
Setting up our battle state manager
Efficient RPG UI overlays
Bring on the GUI
Going further
Summary
10
The Battle Begins
The Battle Begins
Designing an interesting battle system
Preparing to attack a single enemy
Beefing up the enemy AI
Selecting an attack
Selecting a target
Attack! Attack!
Using particle effects to represent an attack
Finishing up the battle
Going further
Summary
11
Shopping for Items
Shopping for Items
Why do we shop?
The power of an item
Building your shop
Laying out your inventory
Creating a shop and inventory
Going further
Summary
12
Sound and Music
Sound and Music
Choosing the appropriate sound and music
Where to get sound and music for your game
Audio listeners and audio sources
Adding background music
Adding sound effects
Muting/unmuting audio
Going further
Summary
13
Putting a Bow on It
Putting a Bow on It
Building in-game menu structures
Finishing our splash screen
Building our start screen
Extending the editor
Working with settings
Going further
Summary
14
Deployment and Beyond
Deployment and Beyond
Handling platform differences
Pushing code from Unity
Building your assets
Packaging gotchas
Distributing to mobile
Social network integration
Monetization
Going further
Summary

Going further

As we reach the halfway mark in the battle implementation, we can take stock of what we have and also look forward to more things we could include at this point.

Try expanding the battle to include the following:

  • Add an animation that allows the Attack Buttons to roll in and out rather than just appear

  • If you added other enemies in the scene, have the IntroSlideAnimation look for the types of enemies and generate the image from code rather than just using a static image for the dragons

  • Hype up the IntroSlideAnimation particle effects and other interesting artistic elements

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