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Mastering Android Game Development with Unity

By : Siddharth Shekar
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Mastering Android Game Development with Unity

By: Siddharth Shekar

Overview of this book

Game engines such as Unity are the power-tools behind the games we know and love. Unity is one of the most widely-used and best loved packages for game development and is used by everyone, from hobbyists to large studios, to create games and interactive experiences for the Web, desktop, mobile, and console. With Unity's intuitive, easy-to-learn toolset and this book, it's never been easier to become a game developer. You will begin with the basic concepts of Android game development, a brief history of Android games, the building blocks of Android games in Unity 5, and the basic flow of games. You will configure an empty project for the Jetpack Joyride Clone Game, add an environment and characters, and control them. Next you will walk through topics such as particle systems, camera management, prefabs, animations, triggers, colliders, and basic GUI systems. You will then cover the basic setup for 3D action fighting games, importing models, textures and controlling them with a virtual on-screen joystick. Later you will set up Scene for 3D Configuration, create basic gameplays, and manage input controls. Next you will learn to create the interface for the main menu, gameplay, game over, achievements, and high score screens. Finally you will polish your game with stats, sounds, and Social Networking, followed by testing the game on Android devices and then publishing it on Google Play, Amazon, and OUYA Stores.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Features of Unity3D


Unity is a game development ecosystem of powerful rendering engine, intuitive tools, rapid workflows for 2D and 3D games, all-in-one deployment support, and thousands of already created free and paid assets with a helpful developers community. The feature list includes the following:

  • Easy workflow, allowing developers to rapidly assemble scenes in an intuitive editor workspace
  • Quality game creation, such as AAA visuals, high-definition audio, and full-throttle action, without any glitches on screen
  • Dedicated tools for both 2D and 3D game creation with shared conventions to make it easy for developers
  • A very unique and flexible animation system to create natural animations in very less time
  • Smooth frame rate with reliable performance on all the platforms developers publish their games
  • One-click ability to deploy to all platforms from desktops to browsers to mobiles to consoles, within minutes
  • Reduce the time of development by using already created reusable assets available on the huge Asset Store

In summary, compared to other game engines Unity is developer-friendly, easy to use, free for independent developers, and feature-rich game engine. In next section, we will see some amazing features of Unity3D.