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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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

There you have it! A solid foundation, but just that, a foundation. However, that being said, we covered a lot of content in this chapter. We discussed how to create a new project in Unity, and we built a player that will move continuously, as well as taking inputs to move horizontally. We then discussed how we can use Unity's attributes and XML comments to improve our code quality and help us when working in teams. We also covered how to have a moving camera. We created a tile-based level design system, where we created new tiles as the game continued, randomly spawning obstacles for the player to avoid.

Throughout this book, we will explore more that we can do to improve this project and polish it while changing it to make for the best experience possible on mobile platforms. However, before we get to that, we'll actually need to figure out how to deploy our projects, which is what we will be working on in the next chapter.

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