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Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development - Third Edition

By : John P. Doran
Book Image

Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development - Third Edition

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Unity is a well-established player in the mobile game development sphere, and its new release, Unity 2022, is packed with new, exciting features. In Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development, Third Edition, you'll get to grips with the Unity game engine by building a mobile game and publishing it on the most popular mobile app stores as well as exploring the all-new features. This book provides a comprehensive and practical approach to mobile game development, helping you build an endless runner game. Starting with setting up a simple Unity project for mobile development, you’ll delve into various essential aspects needed to successfully create and publish your game. You’ll acquire a range of skills, such as incorporating touch gestures, monetizing your game with Unity Ads and in-app purchases, designing an intuitive UI, and seamlessly integrating social media functionalities. Additionally, you’ll gain valuable insights into player preferences and behavior using Unity's analytics tools. You’ll also explore features of augmented reality in Unity 2022, enhancing your game's appeal. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to reap the power of Unity 2022 to build, optimize, and publish robust cross-platform mobile games with C#, as well as widening your skill set and enhancing your credentials as a game developer.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Gameplay/Development Setup
4
Part 2: Mobile-Specific Features
11
Part 3: Game Feel/Polish

Using Unity Analytics

Making a game is a wonderful experience and a lot of hard work, but when designing projects, you have to rely on your experience and gut feelings in order to make it as awesome as possible. Often, in the game industry, we will use playtesting – a process where select people play a game and give feedback, and then we use the feedback we receive to improve the project.

This playtesting is most often done in person; however, by creating games for mobile, a lot of people will be playing your game after release, and most of them will have an internet connection. With this combination of people playing the game and also being online, we can send data about how the game is being played to ourselves. This will still allow us to do playtesting with a large variety of people. Being able to look at our data will allow us to check whether the choices that are made to change the game are the right ones, and we will be able to make adjustments to our games on the...