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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

You're reading from Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Enter the world of 2D Game development with Unity 5.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784397173

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Sapio

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. A Flat World in Unity FREE CHAPTER

2. Baking Cupcake Towers

3. Communicating with the Player – the User Interface

4. No Longer Alone – Sweet-Toothed Pandas Strike

5. The Secret Ingredient Is a Dash of Physics

6. Through a Sea of Sprinkles – Navigation in Artificial Intelligence

7. Trading Cupcakes and the Ultimate Battle for the Cake – Gameplay Programming

8. What Is beyond the Cake?

Summary

The chapter began with an introduction to UI designing and programming, in order to understand the main complications behind UIs and why they are so important. Then, in the first part of the chapter, we saw in detail how the Unity UI system works. In particular, we analyzed every component of the Unity framework and learned their use and functionality. In addition, a section explained some special components present in the framework, but that we won't need for this book.

You can find more about UI designing and programming (although with a major focus on gamification), including also how to use Illustrator to create your own graphic, in Gamification with Unity 5.x by Lauren S. Ferro, Packt publishing. You can find the book here: https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/gamification-unity-5x.

In the second part, we started to create the UI for the tower defense game. In particular, we implemented the logic for a health bar as well as for a sugar meter. However, we will implement more...

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Authors (1)

Sapio

Sapio

Francesco Sapio received his Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics degree from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, a couple of semesters in advance, graduating with summa cum laude; he is currently a researcher at the same university. He is an Unreal and Unity 3D expert, skilled game designer, and an experienced user of major graphics programs. He helped the development of many games (both educational and commercial). He is also an active writer on the topic of game development. Finally, Francesco loves math, philosophy, logic, and puzzle solving, but most of all, creating video gamesthanks to his passion for game designing and programming.

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