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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)

Detecting surfaces

To detect surfaces within our real-world environment, we will need to make use of a new component, the AR Plane Manager. The AR Plane Manager allows us to create, remove, or update game objects in our scene based on the surfaces within the real-world environment. The following steps will automatically create invisible planes with colliders that we could possibly use for gameplay reasons:

  1. We no longer need the original cube we created, so we can delete it from the scene by right-clicking it and selecting Delete or by selecting it and pressing the Delete key.
  2. From the Hierarchy panel, select the AR Session Origin object. From there, add the AR Plane Manager component to it by clicking on the Add Component button at the bottom of the Inspector window and then typing in the name of the component and pressing Enter.

At this point, we will have surfaces being generated to our scene while being run but for things such as debugging, it would be a good idea to visually see...