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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

In this chapter, we were introduced to some of the potential ways that we can share our game with others, as well as personalizing our game experiences, utilizing social media and the functionality that it provides us with. We started off by adding in a simple score system and then allowed users to share their scores via Twitter. We then set up the Facebook SDK, making it so that we can log in to it to play our game and retrieve information about our users, which we can use to customize their gameplay experience.

Now that we have people playing our game, we want them to keep coming back and playing over time. One of the easiest ways to do this is through the use of notifications, which we will be looking at in the next chapter.