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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)
Implementing In-App Purchases

As mentioned in Chapter 5, Advertising Using Unity Ads, there are many options out there when it comes to selling your game on a mobile platform. If you decide to go free-to-play, in addition to showing ads, there is also the ability to sell people additional content and/or advantages through the use of In-App Purchases (IAP). This can be a way to engage users of your game and convert them from a free player to a paid one.

Typically, these can be options such as removing ads or offering themes to players, but you can also do things such as unlock new levels and add additional content so that people addicted to your game will be clamoring to give you more of their time. Alternatively, you can also think of your IAPs as items that players will want to buy in order to enhance their gameplay experiences, such as power-ups and upgrades.

In this chapter...