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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By : Francesco Sapio
Book Image

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leverage these new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book. Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development. Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming. Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Role-Playing Games


In previous chapters, we worked on our platformer game while tinkering with the Unity 2D engine. Now, we will continue doing the same while creating our own Role-Playing Games (RPG).

RPGs can always be fun to create and play; that's one of the reasons as to why they are so popular, regardless of whether they are 2D or 3D. One of the main differences between a 2D platform and 2D RPGs is that the second one has the top view rather than the side one. This has a big impact on both designing maps and programming the physics and movement of our characters.

Before starting to create our RPG, we need to get our assets ready that we will use in the game.