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Unity 5.x By Example

By : Alan Thorn
Book Image

Unity 5.x By Example

By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games. Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Unity 5.x By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Play testing


You've now completed your first game in Unity! It's time to take it for a test run and then finally build it. Testing in Unity firstly consists of pressing play on the toolbar and simply playing your game to see that it works as intended from the perspective of a gamer. In addition to playing, you can also enable debugging mode from the Object Inspector to keep a watchful eye on all public and private variables during runtime, making sure that no variable is assigned an unexpected value. To activate the Debug mode, click on the menu icon at the top right corner of the Object Inspector and, from the context menu that appears, select the Debug option. See Figure 2.32:

Figure 2.32: Activating Debug mode from the Object Inspector

After activating the Debug mode, the appearance of some variables and components in the Object Inspector may change. Typically, you'll get a more detailed and accurate view of your variables, and you'll also be able to see most private variables. See Figure...