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OUYA Game Development by Example

By : John Donovan
Book Image

OUYA Game Development by Example

By: John Donovan

Overview of this book

The OUYA console and development kit gives you the power to publish video games for the players, creating a console marketplace of the gamers, for the gamers, and by the gamers. Using the OUYA developer kit and the Unity3D game engine, even beginners with a captivating game idea can bring it to life with a hint of imagination. OUYA Game Development by Example uses a series of feature-based, step-by-step tutorials that teach beginners how to integrate essential elements into a game engine and then combine them to form a polished gaming experience.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – importing packages into a new workspace


Now that you have all of the packages required for OUYA development, you can import them into the Unity workspace by performing the following steps:

  1. Start a new project in Unity and double-click on the core package you exported to import it into your workspace. Unity will prompt you with a list of possible items to import; make sure they're all checked and click on Import. The OUYA menu will re-appear along the top toolbar as soon as the import completes.

  2. Open the Window menu along that toolbar and click on Open OUYA Panel.

  3. This window is where we'll finally link all of the packages we've downloaded so far to the engine. The panel also has a space to link an NDK, which we will download and link to last.

  4. The Unity tab will automatically contain what it needs, so first click on the Java JDK tab and browse to the location of your JDK, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. Next, click on the Android SDK tab and do the same. Note that it may...