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Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017

You're reading from Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 Learn C# Programming by building fun and interactive games with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788478922

Length 290 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Game Scripting

Authors (2):

DaGraça

Grzegorz Lukosek

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

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Preface

1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready FREE CHAPTER

2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts

3. Getting into the Details of Variables

4. Getting into the Details of Methods

5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries

6. Loops

7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods

8. Let's Make a Game! – from Idea to Development

9. Starting Your First Game

10. Writing GameManager

11. The Game Level

12. The User Interface

13. Collectables

14. Enemies

15. Audio, 3D Games, and Export

Specifying a method's parameters

If you look up the word "parameters" in the dictionary, your brain will probably seize up. All it means is that the method has to be able to use the information you send it, so you simply have to specify the type of data that the method is allowed to use. That's it! It's very simple.

In the earlier screenshot, on line 23, we declared the firstNumber and secondNumber variables. The type is int. Now notice our member variables: number1, number2, and number3. They are also of the int type. These variables have to be of the int type since they store the numbers that will be added to the method, which the parameters specify will be of the int type.

So now, go look in the dictionary again. You will probably see the word limit in there somewhere. That's what you did when you specified the type of data that the method will use, an integer in this case. You set some limits on what is allowed.

Okay, so you're setting parameters, or limits, on the type of data the method...

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Authors (2)

DaGraça

DaGraça

Micael DaGraça is a professional game designer and interactive creator who works with independent video game studios and creates interactive apps focused on the health and pharmaceutical industries. He studied digital arts at the University of IESA Multimedia, Paris, and ESAD Matosinhos. He started his career as a project manager in a small studio and then gradually started working as a game developer by helping other studios to develop their games. More recently, he has been creating interactive content for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Grzegorz Lukosek

Grzegorz Lukosek

Greg Lukosek was born and raised in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. When he was about 8 years old, his amazing parents bought him and his brother a Commodore C64. That was when his love of programming started. He would spend hours writing simple basic code, and when he couldn't write it on the computer directly, he used a notepad. Greg completed his mechanical engineering diploma at ZSTiO Meritum— Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland. He has learned all his programming skills through determination and hard work at home. Greg met the love of his life, Kasia, in 2003, which changed his life forever. They both moved to London in search of adventure and decided to stay there. He started work as a 3D artist and drifted away from programming for some years. Deep inside, he still felt the urge to come back to game programming. During his career as a 3D artist, he discovered Unity and adopted it for an interactive visualizations project. At that very moment, he started programming again. His love for programming overcomes his love for 3D graphics. Greg ditched his 3D artist career and came back to writing code professionally. He is now doing what he really wanted to do since he was 8 years old—developing games. These days, Greg lives in a little town called Sandy in the UK with Kasia and their son, Adam.

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