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Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

By : Bruno Cicanci
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Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

4.5 (2)
By: Bruno Cicanci

Overview of this book

Building a successful real-time strategy game is challenging, because of both the complex mechanics and the need to strike a balance between different elements, ensuring that players enjoy creating and executing strategies against the game's AI. Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023 will teach you how to install and set up the Unity game engine, create a new 3D project, and build a level editor to make it easier to modify and add maps to a game. The RTS game will start to take shape while you learn to implement different core systems such as melee and ranged battles, unit spawners, camera controls, dynamic mapping generation, basic enemy AI, and the pathfinder algorithm. You'll also get to grips with implementing command units to perform actions, crafting and producing resources, basic physics and collision detection, and building an RTS game from scratch using C# and the latest features of the Unity game engine. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to make professional and high-quality end-to-end RTS games using the best practices and techniques from the gaming industry.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Foundations of RTS Games
6
Part 2: The Combat Units
11
Part 3: The Battlefield
15
Part 4: The Gameplay

Downloading and configuring the Unity Editor

To get started, we will need to install Unity Hub, which is the entry point for installing the Unity Editor so that we can create and load projects. Head to https://unity.com/download and click on the Download for Windows button if you have a Windows setup or the Download other versions button for the macOS installer and Linux instructions.

Once downloaded, follow the installer’s instructions to add Unity Hub to your system. Next, click on the Installs tab and then click on the Install Editor button. From the following screen, select the latest version available for Unity, which is 2023.1 at the time of writing, or any later editions:

Figure 2.1 – Install Unity Editor

Figure 2.1 – Install Unity Editor

As soon as you click on the Install button, you will be presented with the following screen, where you can select the modules you would like to install:

Figure 2.2 – Unity modules

Figure 2.2 – Unity modules

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