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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

Setting up Unity Ads

Unity Ads is a video ad network for iOS and Android that can monetize your existing player base by showing ads. Unity Ads offers video ads that can be shown as either rewarded or non-rewarded placements. As the name suggests, rewarded ads will give the users a reward or incentive that will help them while playing the game. Before we can enable Unity Ads, we must first enable Unity’s Services suite. To activate Unity Services, you have to link your project to a Unity Services Project ID, which is how Unity can tell the difference between the different projects you are creating. So let’s see how to do that:

  1. Open the Services window by going to Window | General | Services or by pressing Ctrl + 0. This will open up the Unity Package Manager and will automatically select the Advertisement option:
Figure 7.1 – The Advertisement option in the Unity Package Manager

Figure 7.1 – The Advertisement option in the Unity Package Manager

  1. Click on the Install button and wait...