Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Couverture souple

Jackson, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849697345 ISBN 13 : 9781849697347

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

If you have C# knowledge but now want to become truly confident in creating fully functional 2D RPG games with Unity, then this book will show you everything you need to know.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Key Features

• Learn the advanced features of Unity 2D to change and customize games to suit your needs
• Learn scripting, deployment, and platform integration with an example at each step
• Explore the complete game development lifecycle, from advanced scripting, monetization, marketing and deployment

Book Description

Dive into Unity 2D game development with this advanced guide to the latest tips, tricks at the cutting edge of game development. Explore Unity’s extensive features and create your own high-quality 2D RPG, as you develop your skills and deepen your knowledge to meet the demands of developing exciting games for modern users. Covering the complete game development process from the basics of sprite animation to deploying and marketing your game, this book provides you with step by step guidance to creating a complete game that will be played around the world.

Created to give you a comprehensive yet practical guide to Unity 2D game development, each chapter in this Unity tutorial represents an essential step in the game development workflow. Begin by refreshing your 2D game development knowledge and exploring the core components of Unity. Find out how to develop your game further with sprite animations and background templates, before diving into more advanced techniques, such as implementing artificial intelligence, vital for any sophisticated and fun RPG. Once your game is functional and playable, the book then explores the steps you need to take to deploy and package your app for a range of platforms.

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development has everything you need to create, innovate, and push your skills further, as you to tackle the challenges of leading-edge game development.

What you will learn

• Discover the extensive and exciting features of Unity 2D
• Learn tricks for successfully rendering your game with shaders, layers, tags and sprites
• Use best practices for effective scripting and serialization
• Get to grips with Unity’s Mecanim system for stunning animation
• Integrate AI for more engaging gameplay
• Build games for a multi-platform world
• Deploy, monetize and market your game
• Gain a practical yet in depth understanding of the game development project lifecycle

About the Author

Simon Jackson describes himself as a 'game development generalist'. He regularly contributes to the MonoGame project, adding new features and new samples before publishing it on NuGet, as well as working on several of his own open source projects. He recently became a Microsoft MVP in the ID@Xbox program, for his evangelizing efforts in the game development space. He hopes that this will give him the additional tools that will help him help game developers.

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Character Building
3. Getting Animated
4. The Game World
5. Npcs and Interactions
6. The Big Wild World
7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away
8. Shopping for Weapons
9. Getting Ready to Fight
10. The Battle Begins
11. Onward Wary Traveler
12. Deployment and Beyond

Biographie de l'auteur

Simon Jackson

Simon Jackson has been a tinkerer, engineer, problem solver, and solution gatherer ever since his early years. In short, he loves to break things apart, figure out how they work, and them put them back together; usually better than before. He started way back when with his first computer, the Commodore Vic20. It was simple, used a tape deck, and forced you to write programs in basic or assembly language; they were fun times. From there, he progressed through the ZX Spectrum +2 and the joyous days of modern graphics, but still with the 30 minutes load times from a trusty tape deck. Games were his passion even then, which led to many requests for another gaming machine, but Santa brought him an Amstrad 1640, his first PC. From there, his tinkering and building exploded, and that machine ended up being a huge monstrosity with so many add-ons and tweaked fixes. He was Frankenstein, and this PC became his own personal monster crafted from so many parts. Good times. This passion led him down many paths, and he learned to help educate others on the tips and tricks he learned along the way; these skills have equipped him well for the future. Today, he would class himself as a game development generalist. He works with many different frameworks, each time digging down, ripping them apart, and then showing whoever would listen through his blog, videos, and speaking events on how to build awesome frameworks and titles. This has been throughout many generations of C++, MDX, XNA (what a breath of fresh air that was), MonoGame, Unity3D, The Sunburn Gaming Engine, HTML, and a bunch of other proprietary frameworks—he did them all. This gives a very balanced view of how to build and manage many different types of multiplatform titles. He didn't stop there as he regularly contributed to the MonoGame project, adding new features and samples, and publishing it on NuGet. He also has several of his own open source projects and actively seeks any new and interesting ones to help with. By day, he is a lowly lead technical architect working in the healthcare industry seeking to improve patients' health and care through better software (a challenge to be sure). By night, he truly soars! Building, tinkering, and educating while trying to push game titles of his own. One day they will pay the bills, but until then, he still leads a double life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849697345
• ISBN 13: 9781849697347
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 474
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible