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Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

By : Bruno Cicanci
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Book Image

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

Importing and organizing assets from the Unity Asset Store

Now that all the configuration is done for both the Unity Editor and the IDE, we can use our empty project to get started with our RTS game development. This book will cover all the coding aspects of creating an RTS game, but since we are not going to create any art, the free assets from the Unity Asset Store will be used.

Go to the Unity Asset Store (https://assetstore.unity.com) and create a free account that will allow you to download and import the assets in the Unity Editor.

Next, access this public list, which contains all the assets needed to develop our RTS game in this book (https://assetstore.unity.com/lists/creating-a-rts-game-5773122416647) and click on the Add to My Assets button for each of the six assets. Every time you click that button, a pop-up message stating Unity Terms of Service will be displayed for you to accept the terms of service before the asset is added to your account.

Once added, you...