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Mastering Unity 2D game development

Mastering Unity 2D game development

By : Simon Jackson
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Mastering Unity 2D game development

Mastering Unity 2D game development

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By: Simon Jackson
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Overview of this book

If you have C# knowledge but now want to become truly confident in creating fully functional 2D RPG games with Unity, then this book will show you everything you need to know.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Overview
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1. Overview
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Getting assets
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Welcome to 2D
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Summary
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2. Building a Character
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2. Building a Character
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Getting your project started – the right way
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Understanding components
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Creating the project
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Classes
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Planning behaviors
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Introducing the Unity sprite system
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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3. Getting Animated
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3. Getting Animated
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Sprite animation
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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4. The Game World
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4. The Game World
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Backgrounds and layers
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Building the scene
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Working with the camera
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Transitioning and bounds
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Backgrounds and active elements
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Shaders and 2D
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Going further
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Summary
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5. NPCs and Interactions
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5. NPCs and Interactions
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Considering an RPG
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Advanced programming techniques
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Communicating between game objects
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Background tasks and Coroutines
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Serialization and scripting
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Putting it all together
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Going further
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Summary
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6. The Big Wild World
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6. The Big Wild World
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The larger view
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Putting it together
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Summary
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7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away
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7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away
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Event systems
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Exploring randomness
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Basic Artificial Intelligence
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State machines
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Sensors
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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8. Shopping for Weapons
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8. Shopping for Weapons
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Why do we shop?
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The power of an item
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Building your shop
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Laying out your inventory
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Getting paid
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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9. Getting Ready to Fight
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9. Getting Ready to Fight
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Efficient RPG UI overlays
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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10. Fight and Gain XP
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10. Fight and Gain XP
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Proving ground
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Leveling up
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Balancing
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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11. Onward Wary Traveler
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11. Onward Wary Traveler
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Extending the editor
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Building in-game menu structures
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Working with settings
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Going further
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12. Deployment and Beyond
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12. Deployment and Beyond
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Handling platform differences
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Pushing code from Unity3D
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Building your assets
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Packaging gotchas
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Marketing your game
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Summary
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A. Additional Resources
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A. Additional Resources
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Scripting resources
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Useful assets
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Sources of art and SFX
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Highlights from the Web
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Index
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Index

Backgrounds and active elements

A slightly more advanced option when building game worlds is to add a level of immersive depth to the scene. Having a static image to show the village looks good, especially when you start adding houses and NPCs to the mix; but to really make it shine, you should layer the background and add additional active elements to liven it up.

We won't add them to the sample project at this time, but it is worth experimenting with in your own projects (or try adding it to this one)—it is a worthwhile effect to look into.

Parallaxing

If we look at the 2D sample provided by Unity, the background is split into several panes—each layered on top of one another and each moving at a different speed when the player moves around. There are also other elements such as clouds, birds, buses, and taxis driving/flying around, as shown in the following screenshot:

Implementing these effects is very easy technically. You just need to have the art assets available. There are several scripts...

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