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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

Augmented Reality

Made popular with Niantic’s Pokemon GO and on Snapchat filters, Augmented Reality (AR) is a way of blending digital elements with the real world. Specifically, it is a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, hence providing a composite view, meaning that both the real world and then digital elements put on top of it are displayed to the player.

In this chapter, we will explore how to set up our project to utilize AR for both Android and iOS devices and how we can customize them. This project will be a simple AR project in which the player can look at various surfaces in the game environment and spawn objects on top of them. The goal of this chapter will be to explore the basic concepts of AR and see how they can be used in a project.

This chapter will be split into several topics. It will contain a simple, step-by-step process from beginning to end. Here is the outline of our tasks:

  • Setting...