Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide: Absolute beginners to designing games for Android will find this book is their passport to quick results. Lots of handholding and practical exercises using Unity 3D makes learning a breeze.

Finnegan

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Paperback Dec 2013 320 pages 1st Edition

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Enter the increasingly popular mobile market and create games using Unity 3D and Android
Learn optimization techniques for efficient mobile games
Clear, step-by-step instructions for creating a complete mobile game experience

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Powerful and continuing to grow, the mobile market has never been bigger and more demanding of great games. Android continues to prove itself as a strong contender in this challenging market. With Unity 3D, great games can be made for Android quickly and easily. With its great deployment system, the Android platform is now only one click away. Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide dives straight into making real, fully-functional games, with hands-on examples and step-by-step instructions to give you a firm grounding in Unity 3D and Android. Everything necessary for creating a complete gaming experience is covered and detailed throughout the course of this book. Using clear and practical examples that progressively build upon each other, this book guides you through the process of creating games in Unity for Android. Start by learning about all the great features that Unity and Android have to offer. Next, create a Tic-Tac-Toe game while learning all about interfaces. After that, learn about meshes, materials, and animations with the creation of a tank battle game. You will then learn how to expand your game's environment with the addition of shadows and a skybox. Adding on this, you will also learn how to expand the tank battle by creating enemies and using path finding to chase the player. Next, explore touch and tilt controls with the creation of a space fighter game. Then, learn about physics while recreating the most popular mobile game on the market. You will then expand the space fighter game with the addition of all the special effects that make a game great. Finally, complete your experience by learning the optimization techniques required to keep your games running smoothly. While Unity is available for both Mac and Windows, the book is presented working from a Windows environment. Programming in Unity is possible in C#, JavaScript, and Boo. This book will be working in C# and the final projects will be provided in C# and JavaScript. From nothing to a fully-featured mobile game, Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide takes you through everything it takes to create your next game for the Android platform.

Who is this book for?

Great for developers new to Unity, Android, or both, this book will walk you through everything you need to know about game development for the Android mobile platform. No experience with programming, Android, or Unity is required. Most of the assets used in each chapter project are provided with the book, but it is assumed that you have some access to basic image and model creation software. You will also need access to an Android powered device.

What you will learn

Set up a development environment to work with both Unity and Android
Import and work with the basic building blocks of a game: meshes, materials, and animations
Utilize particles and sound effects to provide feedback to the player
Adjust camera effects and game logic to create 2D games
Interface with touch and tilt inputs to create custom control systems
Set up path finding to create intelligently moving characters
Successfully create custom graphical interfaces
Set up and utilize physics to create a mobile game classic
Create dynamically lit scenes using lightmaps
Understand the best choices for optimizing a game for the mobile platform

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Publication date : Dec 23, 2013

Length: 320 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781849692014

Vendor :

Unity Technologies

Category :

Game Development

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Concepts :

Mobile Game Development

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Unity

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Belinda Feb 23, 2014

Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner’s Guide by Thomas Finnegan is a comprehensive introduction to Unity Development in general and Android development specifically. I would not recommend it to an unexperienced first-time game developer, but with only some basic experience Finnegan’s set of four tutorial games are a great read with plenty of useful information about all aspects of Unity Android development, including 2D and 3D games.The book covers scripting in the C# language and does a decent job at explaining the logic of most written code. Each exemplar game introduces new concepts and the difficulty curve slowly and consistently climbs until the last chapter gives valuable insights into game optimization. Some discussed features require a Unity Pro license to get maximum value out of the book. Despite sometimes almost reading like a Unity ad, I can recommend this book, as it currently is the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Unity Android development.

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Oleg Apr 10, 2014

Great book, very easy to follow, almost no typos or errors!Sometimes quite complex scripting but not too complex though.Very interesting games & lots of tips for mobile development.I highly recommend it!

Geoffrey Hill Jan 28, 2014

Packt publishing have been on a bit of a roll lately with the Unity books. I got this and the playmaker book for some holidays study type fun.This was by far the best.3 large detailed examples to work through, really impressed by the content detail and layout. There are some poorly explained game logic sections but since that's not the focus of the book I easily forgive it. (a couple of very clever blocks of code that do in 2 lines what I would have done in 20, my c# skills are pretty beginner)Highly recommended if you're interested in using unity to develop for android.Just make sure you have spent a little time with C# first. =)

Thom Feb 04, 2014

This book is not merely dry, instructive details but good 'hands-on' construction of some real-world games. Additionally, there are ample screenshots to help guide and verify that you are progressing correctly on each step.As an instructor of software programming I truly appreciate the very methodical and progressive approach this book takes. With each chapter you build, gradually, on information (and hands-on illustrations) from previous chapters.Although I have experience with Unity3D, I have never explored development for the Android platform. Additionally, there are aspects of the Unity3D platform that I was not aware prior to reading this book!This book contains very thorough and clear explanation of the specifics to Mobile (Touch, Tilt). No other books I have seen on this subject has given this much attention to that.After completing this book you will not only have a very strong knowledge and understanding of Unity3D development for the Android platform, but also the foundation of a several fun games on which to build and grow your expertise.

Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios Jun 27, 2014

Loved that book, great samples, some advanced stuff. Content applies to almost all mobile platforms. Highly recommended for novice to intermediate Unity users.

Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide: Absolute beginners to designing games for Android will find this book is their passport to quick results. Lots of handholding and practical exercises using Unity 3D makes learning a breeze.

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