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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development - Second Edition

By : John P. Doran
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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development - Second Edition

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Unity 2020 brings a lot of new features that can be harnessed for building powerful games for popular mobile platforms. This updated second edition delves into Unity development, covering the new features of Unity, modern development practices, and augmented reality (AR) for creating an immersive mobile experience. The book takes a step-by-step approach to building an endless runner game using Unity to help you learn the concepts of mobile game development. This new edition also covers AR features and explains how to implement them using ARCore and ARKit with Unity. The book explores the new mobile notification package and helps you add notifications for your games. You’ll learn how to add touch gestures and design UI elements that can be used in both landscape and portrait modes at different resolutions. The book then covers the best ways to monetize your games using Unity Ads and in-app purchases before you learn how to integrate your game with various social networks. Next, using Unity’s analytics tools, you’ll enhance your game by gaining insights into how players like and use your game. Finally, you’ll take your games into the real world by implementing AR capabilities and publishing them on both Android and iOS app stores. By the end of this book, you will have learned Unity tools and techniques and be able to use them to build robust cross-platform mobile games.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Get in touch
1
Building Your Game
Building Your Game
Technical requirements
Setting up the project
Creating the player
Moving the player through a C# script
Improving our scripts with attributes and XML comments
Having the camera following our player
Creating a basic tile
Making it endless
Creating obstacles
Summary
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2
Project Setup for Android and iOS Development
Project Setup for Android and iOS Development
Technical requirements
An introduction to build settings
Building a project for PC
Exporting a project for Android
Putting the project on your Android device
Unity for iOS setup and Xcode installation
Building a project for iOS
Summary
3
Mobile Input/Touch Controls
Mobile Input/Touch Controls
Technical requirements
Using mouse input
Moving using touch controls
Implementing a gesture
Scaling the player using pinches
Using the accelerometer
Detecting touch on game objects
Summary
4
Resolution-Independent UI
Resolution-Independent UI
Technical requirements
Creating a title screen
Working with buttons
Adding a pause menu
Pausing the game
Adapting GUI for notch devices
Summary
5
Advertising Using Unity Ads
Advertising Using Unity Ads
Technical requirements
Setting up Unity Ads
Displaying a simple ad
Utilizing ad callback methods
Opt-in advertisements with rewards
Adding in a cooldown timer
Summary
6
Implementing In-App Purchases
Implementing In-App Purchases
Technical requirements
Setting up Unity IAP
Creating our first purchase
Adding a button to restore purchases
Summary
Further reading
7
Getting Social
Getting Social
Technical requirements
Adding a scoring system
Sharing high scores via Twitter
Downloading and installing Facebook's SDK
Logging in to our game via Facebook
Displaying a Facebook name and profile picture
Summary
8
Keeping Players Involved with Notifications
Keeping Players Involved with Notifications
Technical requirements
Setting up notifications
Scheduling notifications ahead of time
Customizing notifications
Summary
9
Using Unity Analytics
Using Unity Analytics
Technical requirements
Setting up Analytics
Tracking Custom Events
Working with Funnel Analyzer
Tweaking properties with Remote Settings
Summary
10
Making Your Title Juicy
Making Your Title Juicy
Technical requirements
Animation using LeanTween
Adding tweens to the pause menu
Working with materials
Using post-processing effects
Adding particle effects
Summary
11
Game Build and Submission
Game Build and Submission
Technical requirements
Building a release copy of our game
Putting your game on the Google Play Store
Putting your game on the Apple iOS App Store
Summary
12
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality
Technical requirements
Setting up a project for AR
Basic setup
Detecting surfaces
Interacting with the AR environment
Spawning objects in AR
Summary
13
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Setting up the project

Now that we have our goals in mind, let's start building our project:

    1. To get started, open Unity Hub on your computer.
    2. From startup, we'll opt to create a new project by clicking on the New button.
    3. Next, under Project Name, put in a name (I have chosen MobileDev), and under Templates, make sure that 3D is selected. Afterward, click on CREATE and wait for Unity to load up:
    1. After it's finished, you'll see the Unity Editor pop up for the first time:
      1. If your layout doesn't look the same as in the preceding screenshot, go to the top-right section of the toolbar and select the drop-down menu there that reads Layout. From there, select Default from the options presented:

      In this particular build of Unity, at the time of writing, it appears as if there are some preview packages in use. This likely will not be the case in the future but steps to fix this will be included just in case.

      1. If the Preview Packages in Use button is visible...
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