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Unity 2017 Mobile Game Development

You're reading from Unity 2017 Mobile Game Development Build, deploy, and monetize games for Android and iOS with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288713

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Android

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

John P. Doran

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Building Your Game FREE CHAPTER

2. Setup for Android and iOS Development

3. Mobile Input/Touch Controls

4. Resolution Independent UI

5. Advertising Using Unity Ads

6. Implementing In-App Purchases

7. Getting Social

8. Using Unity Analytics

9. Making Your Title Juicy

10. Game Build and Submission

Setting up analytics

Although we activated Analytics in order to use Unity's Ads system, we didn't really dig into the system itself. Let's finish the setup for that now:

From the Unity Editor, open the Services tab (shown in the top-right side of the next screenshot) by either selecting it or going to Window | Services.
From there, scroll down and click on the Analytics button:

As long as Analytics is enabled, the Editor sends an App Start event to the Analytics service when we press the Play button to start the game.

The nice thing about this is we can ensure that this works correctly without having to export our game.

Press the Play button on the game, then go ahead and scroll down on the Analytics tab; you'll note a new menu called Validator, which shows the events being sent to Unity's analytics tool:

If you are not able to view anything, ensure that you are using a supported platform, such as Android or iOS.

You can also see that people are playing the game via the Unity analytics website...

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Authors (1)

John P. Doran

John P. Doran

John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Songdo, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Bradley University. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently an Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.

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