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Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By : Robert Wells
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Unity 2020 By Example - Third Edition

By: Robert Wells

Overview of this book

The Unity game engine, used by millions of developers around the world, is popular thanks to its features that enable you to create games and 3D apps for desktop and mobile platforms in no time. With Unity 2020, this state-of-the-art game engine introduces enhancements in Unity tooling, editor, and workflow, among many other additions. The third edition of this Unity book is updated to the new features in Unity 2020 and modern game development practices. Once you’ve quickly got to grips with the fundamentals of Unity game development, you’ll create a collection, a twin-stick shooter, and a 2D adventure game. You’ll then explore advanced topics such as machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality by building complete projects using the latest game tool kit. As you implement concepts in practice, this book will ensure that you come away with a clear understanding of Unity game development. By the end of the book, you'll have a firm foundation in Unity development using C#, which can be applied to other engines and programming languages. You'll also be able to create several real-world projects to add to your professional game development portfolio.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Technical requirements

In this chapter, you will start a new project that is not a direct continuation of previous projects. However, as with previous chapters, this chapter assumes that you have not only completed the previous projects but also have a good and basic knowledge of C# scripting generally, though not necessarily in Unity.

You can download the example code files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Unity-2020-By-Example. Once downloaded, you can find the AI project in the Chapter08/End folder.

This chapter uses two assets from the Unity Asset Store, which, along with their author details, can be found at the following links: