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Mastering Unity 5.x

You're reading from Mastering Unity 5.x Create amazing games with brilliant game play features using Unity 5.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785880742

Length 592 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Alan Thorn

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Preparation and Asset-Configuring FREE CHAPTER

2. Level Design and Structure

3. Player Controls - Movement

4. Player Controls - Typing and Health

5. Enemies and Artificial Intelligence

6. Project Management and Version Control

7. Persistent Data - Load and Save Game States

8. Performance, Optimization, Mobiles, and More

Saving data - JSON files

Saving data to XML is an important and powerful ability. XML is such a common data-interchange format that almost all data-driven applications must support it, both for loading and saving data. Nevertheless, XML files are often large, syntactically verbose, and inappropriate for saving small nuggets of data. XML files can be needlessly large in file size, and can be time-consuming to process. As a result, JSON has emerged as a lighter alternative, and it is commonly adopted in games. Since the release of Unity 5.3, JSON is a natively-supported format. Prior to this release, developers needed to use third-party add-ins. This section covers the latest, native JSON tools provided with Unity. However, if you want or need to use an earlier release, then take a look at the following, free third-party add-on offering JSON support, available here: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/SimpleJSON.

JSON parser

To get started using JSON in Unity, create a new project and add the...

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Authors (1)

Alan Thorn

Alan Thorn

Alan Thorn is a multidisciplinary game developer, author, and educator with 16 years of industry experience. He makes games for PC desktop, mobile, and VR. He founded 'Wax Lyrical Games' and created the award-winning game Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok, working as a designer, programmer, and artist. He has written 20 technical books on game development and presented fifteen video training courses. These cover gameplay programming, Unity development, 3D modelling, and animation. He has worked in game development education as a visiting lecturer for the National Film and Television School, as a lead teacher for Uppingham School, and as a senior lecturer at Teesside University.

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