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Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran
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Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

<p>This book will help you to create exciting and interactive games from scratch with the Unity game development platform. We will build 7-8 action-packed games of different difficulty levels, and we’ll show you how to leverage the intuitive workflow tools and state of the art Unity rendering engine to build and deploy mobile desktop as well as console games.</p> <p>Through this book, you’ll develop a complete skillset with the Unity toolset. Using the powerful C# language, we’ll create game-specific characters and game environments. Each project will focus on key Unity features as well as game strategy development. This book is the ideal guide to help your transition from an application developer to a full-fledged Unity game developer</p>

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Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints
John P. Doran
May, 2016 | 428 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints
Unity 5.x Game Development Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
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
Summary
Challenges
2
Creating GUIs
Creating GUIs
Project overview
Creating the main menu level
Adding a header text object
Adding main menu buttons
Pausing the game
Restarting the game
Creating an Options menu
Summary
Challenges
3
GUIs Part 2 – Clicker Game
GUIs Part 2 – Clicker Game
Project overview
Starting our project
Recording and displaying clicks
Creating a shop
Opening/closing the shop
Purchasing upgrades
Summary
Challenges
4
Mobile Endless Game – Procedural Content
Mobile Endless Game – Procedural Content
Project overview
Prerequisites
Project setup
Adding the background
Adding a simple animated character
Making a repeating background
Working with sorting layers
Creating our player behaviour
Creating obstacles
Spawning obstacles at runtime
Game start and end behaviours
Keeping score
Summary
Challenges
5
Shooting Gallery – Working with Animations and Tweens
Shooting Gallery – Working with Animations and Tweens
Project overview
Prerequisites
Project setup
Creating the environment
Adding a target
Creating many targets
Creating waves of targets
Adding in a time limit
Adding in Score/High score
Summary
Project completed
Challenges
6
Side-scrolling Platformer
Side-scrolling Platformer
Project overview
Tile-based level creation
Creating our player
Creating Collectibles
Keeping score
Winning the game
Summary
Challenges
7
First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments
First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments
Project overview
Project setup
Introduction to terrain
Exterior environment – terrain
Adding color to our terrain – textures
Adding water
Adding trees
Adding in details – grass
Building atmosphere
Summary
Challenges
8
First-person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments
First-person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments
Project overview
Project setup
Importing assets
Creating tiles
Placing tiles with grid snapping
Creating and placing props
Lightmapping quickstart
Summary
Challenges
9
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 our player
Adding a flashlight
Creating our weapon
Creating an enemy
Enemy movement
Damaging and killing enemies
Using controller input
Moving to other levels
Summary
Challenges
10
Building an In-Game Level Editor
Building an In-Game Level Editor
Project overview
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
Summary
Challenges
11
Finishing Touches
Finishing Touches
Project overview
Setting up the build settings
Customizing your exported project via the player settings
Building an installer for Windows
Summary
Challenges
Index
Index

Building an installer for Windows

Just as I mentioned previously, having a separate Data folder with our .exe file is somewhat of a pain. Rather than give people a .zip file and hope that they extract it all and then keep everything in the same folder, I will make the process automatic and give the person an opportunity to have it installed just like a professional game. With that in mind, I'm going to go over a free way to create a Windows installer, as follows:

  1. The first thing we need to do is get our setup program. For our demonstration, I will be using Jordan Russell's Inno Setup software. Go to http://jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php and click on the Download Inno Setup link. Take a look at the following screenshot:

  2. From there, click on the Stable Release button and select the isetup-5.5.8.exe file. Once it's finished, double-click on the executable to open it, clicking on the Run button. If it shows a security warning message, click on Yes to allow the changes to take place. Take a look at...

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