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Hands-On Game Development without Coding

By : Lucas Bertolini

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Hands-On Game Development without Coding

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By: Lucas Bertolini

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Overview of this book

Hands-On Game Development without Coding is the first Visual Scripting book in the market. It was tailor made for a non programing audience who are wondering how a videogame is made. After reading this book you will be able to develop your own 2d and 3d videogames and use it on your presentations, to speed up your level design deliveries, test your game design ideas, work on your proofs of concept, or even doing it just for fun. The best thing about Hands-On Game Development without Coding is that you don’t need any previous knowledge to read and understand the process of creating a videogame. It is our main focus to provide you with the opportunity to create a videogame as easy and fast as possible. Once you go through the book, you will be able to create player input interaction, levels, object behaviours, enemy AI, creating your own UI and finally giving life to your game by building it. It’s Alive!

Preface

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What this book covers

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Game Design - Introduction

Game design fundamentals

Player psychology

2D and 3D gameplay

Level design

Game aesthetics

Summary

User Interface - Layouts and Shortcuts

Technical requirements

Installing Unity HUB and Unity3D

Unity user interface layout

Tips and shortcuts for Unity Editor

Initial configuration of the project

Summary

Further reading

Basic Concepts - Variables and Components

Visual Scripting

Data types and data visualization

2D and 3D Game Kit introduction

Summary

Getting Started - Object Placement

Project management

Game kit 2D

Game Kit 3D

Quality and resolution

Summary

Further reading

Object Behaviors - Adding Logic to Objects

2D Game Kit

3D Game Kit

Summary

Player Character - Components and Behaviors

2D Game Kit

3D Game Kit

Tying reactions to events

Summary

Further reading

Interactable Objects - Enhancing Interaction

2D Game Kit

3D Game Kit

Summary

Playing with Visual and Sound Effects

Visual effects

Sound effects

Physics

Summary

Enemy Logic - Basic AI

What is a finite-state machine?

States diagram

Enemy FSM

Summary

Enemy Components and Behaviors

2D Game Kit enemies

3D Game Kit enemies

Summary

A Bigger Challenge - The Boss

2D Game Kit

3D Game Kit

Summary

UI Interaction - Menu and Button Feedback

Unity UI components

Main menu creation

Scene management within Unity

Summary

Further reading

Gameplay HUD - Player UI and Dialog Box

The inventory

Player UI

Inventory and gameplay visuals (2D only)

Dialog boxes

Transition screens

Summary

Further reading

Project End - Platform Selection and Building

Platform selection and settings

Building the game

Summary

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User Interface - Layouts and Shortcuts

This will be our very first contact with Unity3D and probably any game engine, so before getting into the depths of video game production, we will build up our familiarity with it.

We will go through the main windows of Unity, learn what they will help us do, and finally, with this knowledge, we will make the initial configurations in order to start crafting our video game.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter: