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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to create in-app purchases, making use of Unity in your project. We first covered how to set up Unity's IAP system and then dived into using Codeless IAP to easily add a purchasable item to your game. We then created the functionality to restore our purchase if we uninstall and reinstall our game and went over where we can go to set up our purchases depending on the store we want to target. These new skills give you the ability to make additional revenue from your game, while also allowing you to target multiple stores and platforms, making it possible for even more people to see your title.

Now, of course, having all these ways to make money isn't going to help us if no one is playing our game. In the next chapter, we will get social, learning how we can make use of social media to share our score and get other players interested in our title.