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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x - Second Edition

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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Unity is a cross-platform game engine that is used to develop 2D and 3D video games. Unity 5 is the latest version, released in March 2015, and adds a real-time global illumination to the games, and its powerful new features help to improve a game’s efficiency. This book will get you started with programming behaviors in C# so you can create 2D games in Unity. You will begin by installing Unity and learning about its features, followed by creating a C# script. We will then deal with topics such as unity scripting for you to understand how codes work so you can create and use C# variables and methods. Moving forward, you will find out how to create, store, and retrieve data from collection of objects. You will also develop an understanding of loops and their use, and you’ll perform object-oriented programming. This will help you to turn your idea into a ready-to-code project and set up a Unity project for production. Finally, you will discover how to create the GameManager class to manage the game play loop, generate game levels, and develop a simple UI for the game. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the art of applying C# in Unity.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Naming methods properly


Always use meaningful names for your methods. Just as I explained for variables, if you don't use good names, then six months from now, you will be confused.

Since methods make GameObject do something useful, you should give your method a name that sounds like an action, for example, JumpOverTheFence or ClimbTheWall. You can look at those names and know exactly what the method is going to do.

Don't make them too simple. Suppose you name a method Wiggle. Sure, you know what Wiggle means right now, but six months later, you'll look at that and say "Wiggle? Wiggle what?" It takes only a moment more to be a little more precise and write WiggleDogsTail. Now, when you see this method name, you'll know exactly what it's going to do.

Beginning method names with an uppercase letter

Why? We do this to make it easier to tell the difference between a class or method and a variable. Also, Microsoft recommends beginning method names with an uppercase letter. If someone else ever looks...