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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development

You're reading from Mastering Unity 2D Game Development Using Unity 5 to develop a retro RPG

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463456

Length 506 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

2D Game Development

Authors (2):

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Jackson

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Mastering Unity 2D Game Development - Second Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your Project and Character

3. Getting Animated

4. The Town View

5. Working with Unitys UI System

6. NPCs and Interactions

7. The World Map

8. Encountering Enemies and Running Away

9. Getting Ready to Fight

10. The Battle Begins

11. Shopping for Items

12. Sound and Music

13. Putting a Bow on It

14. Deployment and Beyond

Going further

If you are the adventurous sort, try expanding your project to add the following:

Put two images on the canvas and adjust their anchor and pivot points. Then see what happens when the resolution of the game window is changed significantly.
Place a few buttons in a canvas and experiment with the different transitions to see how they work.

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Authors (2)

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Ashley Godbold is a programmer, game designer, artist, mathematician, and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Master of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design, and a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media where her dissertation research focused on educational video game design. She also authored Mastering Unity 2D Game Development: Second Edition (Packt Publishing) and the first edition of Mastering UI Development with Unity. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games and watching anime with her husband, daughter, three cats, and dog.

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Jackson

Jackson

Simon Jackson is a long-time soft ware engineer and architect with many years of Unity game development experience, as well as an author of several Unity game development titles. He loves to both create Unity projects and lend a hand to help educate others, whether it's via a blog, vlog, user group, or major speaking event. He currently works at a mixed-reality research lab called xRealityLabs, building the future of digital solutions for the construction and medical industries. His primary focus at the moment is on the Reality Toolkit project, which is aimed at building a cross-platform mixed-reality framework to enable both VR and AR developers to build efficient solutions in Unity.

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