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Explore the 2D architecture of Unity 5, and the tools and techniques for developing 2D games

Discover how to use Unity’s 2D tools, including Sprites, physics, and maps, to create different genres of games

Practical tutorial on the intermediate and advanced development concepts in Unity 5 to create three interesting and fully functional games

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Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leverage these new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book. Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development. Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming. Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.

What you will learn

Explore and understand the vital role of sprites in 2D games

Move, animate, and integrate sprites into a 2D platform game

Set up User Interfaces (UIs) to keep track of the progress through the games

Apply 2D Physics to improve gameplay believability

Learn the foundation of Level Design and how to quickly create 2D Maps

Discover NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming

Create an epic strategy game, challenging all the skills acquired in the book

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Bart Knowles Oct 27, 2016

You can ignore the negative reviews: they are clearly biased.This book is not perfect, yet it is one of the best on the market to learn how to develop games using Unity. I have a limited expewrience with Unity and I found it incredibly useful, with clear examples and step-by-step instructions.A couple of figures are too dark and some chapters are better written than others, but overall it is a must-have text.

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Overtech Oct 10, 2016

I only worked through chapter 4 before returning this book. It's extremely basic and some of the code has errors or is outdated and simply won't work in the latest version of Unity (5.4 as of this book's publication). Ironically, it did help me learn more about Unity 2D game development because it often forced me to search for the correct answers online or figure them out myself. Unless you absolutely prefer a book format, you're better off finding 2D tutorials online.Despite my complaints, I did appreciate the fact that this was not an introduction to Unity book. The authors don't take time to explain things or spell things out, which was fine for me because I've read other books that walked me through the basics of Unity. If you're brand new to Unity, try a different book. I liked Unity in Action, but that's predominately 3D focused, which is why I was looking forward to this book. Unfortunately, this book didn't meet my needs, but I look forward to future 2D-focused books now that it is a standard feature in Unity.

TJ Oct 16, 2016

This book was a disappointment at best. The book is very sloppy and very poorly edited. The authors leave out important steps, use wrong information, and even contradict themselves. For example in one section they tell you to rename an object Level, then you are to add children to this object, but as they continue to refer to the object they call it something else. It is only because they show a screenshot of what it is supposed to look like that the reader figures out what they really meant. This happens multiple times in the first few chapters.The coding in the book does not work properly. I had to go to outside sources to 'fix' the coding so that the project would work properly. They leave out very important information many times over. They have you add a script to make the player perform an action, however, they did not make sure the assets package they include is scaled the same as the asset you use for the player character. Implementing the script they tell you makes the player run around the screen and shrink in size. It is bizarre at best. This happens with several of their scripts in the beginning of the book. In addition, there are key components of the information that are outdated, again forcing the reader to go to outside sources to be able to complete the task.The sprites they give you to work with for your projects are sloppily made. When they 'cut' them on the spritesheet, they did not bother to make sure each image was cut straight so you get pieces of the other images in with each sprite. You cannot create a clean looking game with their materials. Trying to create a map with their assets just creates a huge mess.There were just so many things wrong with this book and that is just the first few chapters. It was such a disappointment.

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