Building a Game with Unity and Blender: Learn how to build a complete 3D game using the industry-leading Unity game development engine and Blender, the graphics software that gives life to your ideas

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Paperback Nov 2015 250 pages 1st Edition

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Key benefits

Learn the fundamentals of two powerful tools and put the concepts into practice
Find out how to designand buildall the core elements required for a great game - from characters to environments, to props—
Learn how to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your game for sophisticated and engaging gameplay

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In the wake of the indie game development scene, game development tools are no longer luxury items costing up to millions of dollars but are now affordable by smaller teams or even individual developers. Among these cutting-edge applications, Blender and Unity stand out from the crowd as a powerful combination that allows small-to-no budget indie developers or hobbyists alike to develop games that they have always dreamt of creating. Starting from the beginning, this book will cover designing the game concept, constructing the gameplay, creating the characters and environment, implementing game logic and basic artificial intelligence, and finally deploying the game for others to play. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master the skills required to develop your dream game from scratch.

Who is this book for?

This book has been created for anyone who wants to learn how to develop their own game using Blender and Unity, both of which are freely available, yet very popular and powerful, tools. Not only will you be able to master the tools, but you will also learn the entire process of creating a game from the ground up.

What you will learn

• Design and create a game concept that will determine how your game will look and how it will be played
• Construct 3D models of your game characters and create animations for them before importing them into the game
• Build the game environment from scratch by constructing the terrain and props, and eventually put it all together to form a scene
• Import and integrate game assets created in Blender into Unity—for example, setting up textures, materials, animation states, and prefabs
• Develop game structures including a game flow, user interface diagram, game logic, and a state machine
• Make the game characters move around and perform certain actions either through player inputs or fully controlled by artificial intelligence
• Create particles and visual effects to enhance the overall visual aesthetic
• Deploy the game for various types of platforms

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Melody Jan 22, 2016

I'm a graphic design student and I have an interest in dabbling in game design. Love this book - very cool. Bought this with "the art of game design" by jesse schell. Would recommend both.Also -- had to wait for this book for over a month to ship because they had none in stock. But it was worth the wait.

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Jtown Dec 28, 2023

Good and fast delivery, book in great condition!

Pradiv Garg Apr 21, 2020

This is good book to learn game development if you don't even the basics of it. I can't say weather you like it or not as a pro but as beginner you will love it. There are few things which have changed in softwares compared to version of book I have but still by moving a little around and reading changes in docs of unity you can fully utilize this book to learn from start to end of development

jremydeaton Jan 04, 2016

First, let me state that I am an Advanced Beginner to Intermediate in Blender, and a total Noob in Unity. So my biggest part of this review is going to be about the blender sections. Because I am a little more advanced, I hate books that repeatedly go over the simple basics that you can find within Blender’s documentation. Luckily, this author does not do that. He assumes that you’ve looked over that documentation, as you should. However, this could also cause problems or confusion for the absolute beginner. It did cause some hiccups for an advanced user like myself. There are numerous points in his instructions that are missing, and I felt were crucial for anyone to know. Simple things, like when he switched from edit to object mode to complete a task were not mentioned at times. There were certain times when even I was wondering why something wasn’t working. I would have to stop, checkout documentation or stackexchange before I realized that he simply did not mention what mode he was in, or that he was using “blender render” instead of, what is now my default, Cycles.As for Unity; I had to stop going over the book for a while, so I could go over the basic tutorials. After doing that, I found that I was still having the same issues, in not knowing completely what I was supposed to be doing.There are two things that this book does well, and the last one really isn’t really a compliment. First, this is a nice “What do I do next”, type of book. If you’ve gone over numerous tutorials for both pieces of software and are asking that very question… Then this book is for you. For its downfalls, it still is a great book that gives you a “quick and dirty”, “What’s Next” project from start to finish. Secondly, because of it’s unclear instructions at times… You will find yourself being more knowledgeable about each of the software’s documentation and how to successfully troubleshot issues and tasks in each.UPDATE: Forgot to mention above that there is NO errata and NO source files.

W Jan 15, 2016

I had high hopes after getting another book for PacktPub that was top notch but this is absolute junk. There's very little explanation of what is being done or why and an absurd number of steps just get skipped. Most steps require some extra googling to figure out what you were supposed to do. There is too much skipped information to be useful to beginners and too little helpful information to be of any use to those with a little experience. The author should have made a detailed book about making game assets in Blender or about working with them in Unity. Instead we got a book that fails on two fronts.Edited to two stars. I used it a couple times for quick references. It isn't totally useless as vague outline of steps, though I still wouldn't suggest it to anyone.

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