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Mastering Unity 2D game development

By : Simon Jackson
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Mastering Unity 2D game development

By: Simon Jackson

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Mastering Unity 2D game development
Simon Jackson
Aug, 2014 | 474 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering Unity 2D Game Development
Mastering Unity 2D Game Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Overview
Overview
Getting assets
Welcome to 2D
Summary
2
Character Building
Character Building
Getting your project started – the right way
Understanding components
Creating the project
Classes
Planning behaviors
Introducing the Unity sprite system
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
3
Getting Animated
Getting Animated
Sprite animation
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
4
The Game World
The Game World
Backgrounds and layers
Building the scene
Working with the camera
Transitioning and bounds
Backgrounds and active elements
Shaders and 2D
Going further
Summary
5
NPCs and Interactions
NPCs and Interactions
Considering an RPG
Advanced programming techniques
Communicating between game objects
Background tasks and Coroutines
Serialization and scripting
Putting it all together
Going further
Summary
6
The Big Wild World
The Big Wild World
The larger view
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
7
Encountering Enemies and Running Away
Encountering Enemies and Running Away
Event systems
Exploring randomness
Basic Artificial Intelligence
State machines
Sensors
Putting it together
The missing random piece
One last thing
Going further
Summary
8
Shopping for Weapons
Shopping for Weapons
Why do we shop?
The power of an item
Building your shop
Laying out your inventory
Getting paid
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
9
Getting Ready to Fight
Getting Ready to Fight
Efficient RPG UI overlays
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
10
The Battle Begins
The Battle Begins
Proving ground
Leveling up
Balancing
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
11
Onward Wary Traveler
Onward Wary Traveler
Extending the editor
Building in-game menu structures
Working with settings
Going further
Summary
12
Deployment and Beyond
Deployment and Beyond
Handling platform differences
Pushing code from Unity3D
Building your assets
Packaging gotchas
Marketing your game
Summary
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Scripting resources
Useful assets
Sources of art and SFX
Highlights from the Web
Index
Index

Going further

If you are of the adventurous sort, try to expand your project by adding the following:

  • Add a few more characters from the pack and get them rigged up

  • Play with some of the other assets in the FANTASY_PACK and tackle automatic and grid-based splicing

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