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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020 - Fifth Edition

By : Harrison Ferrone
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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2020 - Fifth Edition

By: Harrison Ferrone

Overview of this book

Over the years, the Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity series has established itself as a popular choice for getting up to speed with C#, a powerful and versatile programming language that can be applied in a wide array of application areas. This book presents a clear path for learning C# programming from the ground up without complex jargon or unclear programming logic, all while building a simple game with Unity. This fifth edition has been updated to introduce modern C# features with the latest version of the Unity game engine, and a new chapter has been added on intermediate collection types. Starting with the basics of software programming and the C# language, you’ll learn the core concepts of programming in C#, including variables, classes, and object-oriented programming. Once you’ve got to grips with C# programming, you’ll enter the world of Unity game development and discover how you can create C# scripts for simple game mechanics. Throughout the book, you’ll gain hands-on experience with programming best practices to help you take your Unity and C# skills to the next level. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage the C# language to build your own real-world Unity game development projects.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

With that, our Enemy and Player interactions are complete. We can deal damage as well as take it, lose lives, and fight back, all while updating the on-screen GUI. Our enemies use Unity's navigation system to walk around the arena and change to attack mode when within a specified range of the player. Each GameObject is responsible for its behavior, internal logic, and object collisions, while the game manager keeps track of the variables that govern the game's state. Lastly, we learned about simple procedural programming and how much cleaner code can be when repeated instructions are abstracted out into their methods.

You should feel a sense of accomplishment at this point, especially if you started this book as a total beginner. Getting up to speed with a new programming language while building a working game is no easy trick. In the next chapter, you'll be introduced to some intermediate topics in C#, including new type modifiers, method overloading...