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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development - Second Edition

By : John P. Doran
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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development - Second Edition

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Unity 2020 brings a lot of new features that can be harnessed for building powerful games for popular mobile platforms. This updated second edition delves into Unity development, covering the new features of Unity, modern development practices, and augmented reality (AR) for creating an immersive mobile experience. The book takes a step-by-step approach to building an endless runner game using Unity to help you learn the concepts of mobile game development. This new edition also covers AR features and explains how to implement them using ARCore and ARKit with Unity. The book explores the new mobile notification package and helps you add notifications for your games. You’ll learn how to add touch gestures and design UI elements that can be used in both landscape and portrait modes at different resolutions. The book then covers the best ways to monetize your games using Unity Ads and in-app purchases before you learn how to integrate your game with various social networks. Next, using Unity’s analytics tools, you’ll enhance your game by gaining insights into how players like and use your game. Finally, you’ll take your games into the real world by implementing AR capabilities and publishing them on both Android and iOS app stores. By the end of this book, you will have learned Unity tools and techniques and be able to use them to build robust cross-platform mobile games.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Advertising Using Unity Ads

When working on mobile titles, you need to think about how you are going to sell your game. Deciding on how to best sell a game can be difficult. Of course, you can sell your game for a price, and there is a possibility that it will be successful, but you'll be limiting your audience numbers to a much lower amount. This could work well for a niche game, but if you're trying to make a game with broad appeal where you want to get as many players as possible to play your title, you may have some issues.

Having a price on the game can be a major hurdle in getting those initial customers who can share the game via word of mouth and contribute to having more people play your game. To solve this potential issue, you do have the option of making your game free. Afterward, you can give players the opportunity to purchase things or show advertisements...