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OUYA Game Development by Example

By : John Donovan
Book Image

OUYA Game Development by Example

By: John Donovan

Overview of this book

The OUYA console and development kit gives you the power to publish video games for the players, creating a console marketplace of the gamers, for the gamers, and by the gamers. Using the OUYA developer kit and the Unity3D game engine, even beginners with a captivating game idea can bring it to life with a hint of imagination. OUYA Game Development by Example uses a series of feature-based, step-by-step tutorials that teach beginners how to integrate essential elements into a game engine and then combine them to form a polished gaming experience.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – exporting OUYA packages from Unity


The last thing you need before you can link everything you've downloaded to Unity is the Unity OUYA plugin. This can be downloaded directly from the developers at https://github.com/ouya/ouya-unity-plugin. Perform the following steps to install the plugin:

  1. Click on the button on the page that says Download ZIP and put it in a location that's easy to find. When it has downloaded, unzip the archive and open Unity.

  2. In the Unity window, navigate to File | Open Project…, browse the unzipped folder, and click on Open. On Mac OS, you may need to click on Open Other… to access the folder's location.

    Depending on the latest versions of Unity and the plugin, you may be prompted to upgrade the project to work with the latest version of Unity. If it does, then accept the prompt; if you don't receive the prompt, it will work fine as it is.

    After opening the plugin files as a project, two new drop-down lists will appear on the top toolbar of Unity: OUYA...