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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)

Setting up Unity IAP

Unity IAP is a service that allows us to sell a variety of different items to players within our game projects and is currently supported by the iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Google Play, Windows Store, Amazon Appstore, and more, by default. So, using this, we can easily sell our items in many different places. We have already set up Unity Services in Chapter 5, Advertising Using Unity Ads, so this will be a lot easier to get going. Perform the following steps to add Unity IAP:

  1. Open the Services window by going to Window | Services or by clicking on the Cloud button in the toolbar.
Assuming that you are following along from the preceding chapter, we should already have services set up. If not, check out the Setting up Unity Ads section in Chapter 5, Advertising Using Unity Ads, for an explanation on how to do so.
  1. From the Services menu, scroll down to the In-App Purchasing item. You will note that it's currently off:
  1. Click on the In-App Purchasing button...