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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

With that, we've got a good foundation to build on when creating UI elements for a mobile game. We first covered how to create a title screen, making use of buttons and Text objects. We then covered how to use panels, buttons, text, and layout groups to make your menus adapt to the size of your elements. We also touched on how layout groups can arrange our objects to fit in a pleasing manner.

We integrated the pause menu into our game itself and made it work with everything in our project. Finally, we saw how to have our project automatically adapt to fit within the allotted safe areas to handle the notches found on phones. We will be revisiting these concepts in later chapters, so keep these explanations in mind.

One in-development tool to keep an eye on is Device Simulator. This is a tool that aims to allow developers to see what their game will look like on many devices. For more information on it, check out https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.device-simulator...