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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

By : Francesco Sapio
Book Image

Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

Want to get started in the world of 2D game development with Unity? This book will take your hand and guide you through this amazing journey to let you know exactly what you need to build the games you want to build, without sacrificing quality. You will build a solid understanding of Unity 5.x, by focusing with the embedded tools to develop 2D games. In learning about these, along with accurate explanations and practical examples, you will design, develop, learn how to market and publish a delectable Tower Defense game about cupcakes versus pandas. Each chapter in this book is structured to give you a full understanding on a specific aspect of the workflow pipeline. Each of these aspects are essential for developing games in Unity. In a step-by-step approach, you will learn about each of the following phases: Game Design, Asset Importing, Scripting, User Interfaces, Animations, Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Gameplay Programming, Polishing and Improving, Marketing, Publishing and much more. This book provides you with exercises and homework at the end of each chapter so that you can level up your skills as a Unity game developer. In addition, each of these parts are centered on a common point of discussion with other learners just like you. Therefore, by sharing your ideas with other people you will not only develop your skills but you will also build a network.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Scripting in Unity


In this section, we will learn one of the toughest topics in game development! However, I strongly encourage you not to be scared, but try to practice a lot. As a result, you will be able to master every single detail of your game. And that is awesome!

Creating new scripts

First of all, we need to understand how to create new scripts in Unity. The easiest way is to select a game object and in the Inspector, navigate to Add Component | New Script. In this way, you still have the possibility to rename it, but the script will be located in the Asset folder. Furthermore, it's not possible to create a class that cannot be attached to a game object.

A much better way is to create a folder called Scripts in the Project panel, if you haven't done so yet. Then, right-click and navigate to Create | C# Script. As a result, it will be in the right folder, and we don't have problems if we create a script that cannot be attached to game objects.

For the rest of this book, it will be assumed...