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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

Tracking custom events

Unity Analytics does a number of different things automatically to make it easy to work with. However, as a game designer, you may often want to check whether certain aspects of a game are being used or whether players are reaching certain pieces of content. To keep track of this, we can make use of the custom events system.

Custom events are pieces of data that users send to the cloud as they play a game. Each custom event can have its own parameters, which will allow us to filter the data that we send when it is generated. We will discuss how you can send information over the cloud through the use of code.

Sending basic CustomEvents

The first kind of event we are going to send is just an event name. This can be used for something such as tracking the number of times people access a certain place or checking whether something invalid appears to be happening. To make it easy to trigger and track for testing purposes, we will cause an event to happen...