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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

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Building a Game with Unity and Blender

Overview of this book

In the wake of the indie game development scene, game development tools are no longer luxury items costing up to millions of dollars but are now affordable by smaller teams or even individual developers. Among these cutting-edge applications, Blender and Unity stand out from the crowd as a powerful combination that allows small-to-no budget indie developers or hobbyists alike to develop games that they have always dreamt of creating. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover designing the game concept, constructing the gameplay, creating the characters and environment, implementing game logic and basic artificial intelligence, and finally deploying the game for others to play. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master the skills required to develop your dream game from scratch.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building a Game with Unity and Blender
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Planning the game flow


Let's start creating our game structure by planning the game flow. Game flow is the overall flow of our game, from the moment it's launched to finally quitting the game. From the game flow, we will be able to see the big picture of how our game is going to work.

For example, a typical game flow may look like this:

A flow chart like this usually starts from the top going downwards. You can also put an indication for the starting node such as a different background color, apply bold text, or put an icon beside the text. After that, arrows will be used to indicate how the game state is being navigated based on given conditions. Diamond shapes will be used when there is more than one condition, and each of them will yield a different result, hence its arrow will be pointing to a different state. Two-way arrows will be used for two-way navigation between two states.

By looking at the preceding chart, we are able to tell that the game contains an introduction cinematic right...