Unity Game Development Blueprints

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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran

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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Unity Game Development Blueprints

Unity Game Development Blueprints

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

2D Twin-stick Shooter

2D Twin-stick Shooter

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating our scene

Implementing player movement

Shooting behavior

Creating enemies

Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves

Particle systems for enemy explosion

Adding in sound effects/music

Adding in points, score, and wave numbers

Publishing the game

Creating GUIs

Project overview

Customizing the GUI

Pausing the game

Restarting the game

Creating an Options menu

Side-scrolling Platformer

Side-scrolling Platformer

Project overview

Setting up the project

Tile-based level creation

Creating our player

Creating collectibles

Winning the game

First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

Project overview

The project setup

Exterior environment – terrain

Beautifying the environment – adding water, trees, and grass

Creating our player

Building the atmosphere

Creating a flashlight

Walking / flashlight bobbing animation

First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

Project overview

Importing assets

Placing tiles with grid snapping

Creating and placing props

Lightmapping quickstart

First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating the shooting behavior

Creating an enemy

Damaging and killing enemies

Using controller input

Moving to other levels

Creating Save Files in Unity

Creating Save Files in Unity

Project overview

Saving a high score

Level editor – introduction

Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime

Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles

Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Finishing Touches

Finishing Touches

Project overview

Setting up the build settings

Customizing your exported project via the player settings

Building an installer for Windows

Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

Project overview

Creating health bars

Working with buttons and anchors

Additional resources

Index

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The project setup

At this point, I assume you have a fresh installation of Unity and have started it. You can perform the following steps:

With Unity started, navigate to File | New Project.
Select a project location of your choice somewhere on your hard drive and ensure that you have Setup defaults for set to 3D.
Once completed, click on Create. Here, if you see the Welcome to Unity pop up, feel free to close it as we won't be using it.

Level design 101 – planning

Now just because we are going to be diving straight into Unity, I feel it's important to talk a little more about how level design is done in the gaming industry. While you may think a level designer will just jump into the editor and start playing, the truth is you normally would need to do a ton of planning ahead of time before you even open up your tool.

Generally, a level design begins with an idea. This can come from anything; maybe you saw a really cool building, or a photo on the Internet gave you a certain feeling; maybe you...