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Unity 3D Game Development

By : Anthony Davis, Travis Baptiste, Russell Craig, Ryan Stunkel
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Unity 3D Game Development

By: Anthony Davis, Travis Baptiste, Russell Craig, Ryan Stunkel

Overview of this book

This book, written by a team of experts at Unity Technologies, follows an informal, demystifying approach to the world of game development. Within Unity 3D Game Development, you will learn to: Design and build 3D characters and game environments Think about the users’ interactions with your game Develop an interface and apply visual effects to add an emotional connection to your world Gain a solid foundation of sound design, animations, and lighting Build, test, and add final touches The book contains expert insights that you’ll read before you look into the project on GitHub to understand all the underpinnings. This way, you get to see the end result, and you’re allowed to be creative and give your own thoughts to design, as well as work through the process with the new tools we introduce. Join the book community on Discord to read this book with Unity game developers, and the team of authors. Ask questions, build teams, chat with the authors, participate in events and much more. The link to join is included in the book.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Game loops

Video games have a unique concept called a game loop. As you might be able to guess, it’s a loop of mechanics that are performed throughout the experience. The game loop itself could be very short, such as Call of Duty’s multiplayer team deathmatch. The loop looks something like this, where the goal is to kill more enemies than the number of times you die:

  1. Kill enemies
  2. Die and respawn

There’s more to it than that, and if you are a professional Call of Duty player, you may think this is an over-generalization of the gameplay. Ultimately, however, it really is the case 90% of the time. Now let’s look at Minecraft’s game loop:

  1. Gather resources in the day
  2. Build in the day
  3. Survive at night

We are going to simplify this: there are specific circumstances that fall outside this loop, such as creepers in the day and rainfall, which reduces light levels such that it essentially becomes night...