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Unity Game Development Blueprints

By : John P. Doran

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Unity Game Development Blueprints

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By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

If you want to build enticing projects with Unity, this book is for you. Readers who are familiar with the basics of how to create simple projects in Unity will have an easier time.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter

1. 2D Twin-stick Shooter

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating our scene

Implementing player movement

Shooting behavior

Creating enemies

Adding GameController to spawn enemy waves

Particle systems for enemy explosion

Adding in sound effects/music

Adding in points, score, and wave numbers

Publishing the game

Summary

Challenges

2. Creating GUIs

2. Creating GUIs

Project overview

Project setup

Customizing the GUI

Pausing the game

Restarting the game

Creating an Options menu

Summary

Challenges

3. Side-scrolling Platformer

3. Side-scrolling Platformer

Project overview

Setting up the project

Tile-based level creation

Creating our player

Creating collectibles

Keeping score

Winning the game

Summary

Challenges

4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

4. First Person Shooter Part 1 – Creating Exterior Environments

Project overview

The project setup

Exterior environment – terrain

Beautifying the environment – adding water, trees, and grass

Creating our player

Building the atmosphere

Creating a flashlight

Walking / flashlight bobbing animation

Summary

Challenges

5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

5. First Person Shooter Part 2 – Creating Interior Environments

Project overview

Project setup

Importing assets

Creating tiles

Placing tiles with grid snapping

Creating and placing props

Lightmapping quickstart

Summary

Challenges

6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

6. First Person Shooter Part 3 – Implementing Gameplay and AI

Project overview

Setting up the project

Creating the shooting behavior

Creating an enemy

Enemy movement

Damaging and killing enemies

Using controller input

Moving to other levels

Summary

Challenges

7. Creating Save Files in Unity

7. Creating Save Files in Unity

Project overview

Saving a high score

Level editor – introduction

Level editor – adding/removing walls at runtime

Level editor – toggling editor, GUI, and selecting additional tiles

Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Summary

Challenges

8. Finishing Touches

8. Finishing Touches

Project overview

Setting up the build settings

Customizing your exported project via the player settings

Building an installer for Windows

Summary

Challenges

9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

9. Creating GUIs Part 2 – Unity's New GUI System

Project overview

Project setup

Creating health bars

Adding in text

Working with buttons and anchors

Summary

Additional resources

Challenges

Index

Index

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Level editor – saving/loading levels to file

Now that we have the groundwork all placed and ready, let's get to the real meat of the level editor: saving and loading! Perform the following steps:

Open our LevelEditor class in MonoDevelop. The first step will be to include some additional functionality at the beginning of our file:

//You must include these namespaces
//to use BinaryFormatter
using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.IO;

The first thing we'll want to add is a variable, as follows:
```
string levelName = "Level1";
```

Now, we'll need to add the following code to the OnGUI function:

GUILayout.BeginArea(new Rect(10, 20, 100, 100));
levelName = GUILayout.TextField(levelName);
if (GUILayout.Button ("Save"))
{
  SaveLevel();
}
if (GUILayout.Button ("Load"))
{
  //If we have a file with the name typed in, load it!
  if(File.Exists(Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + levelName + ".lvl"))
  {
    LoadLevelFile(levelName);
    PlayerStart.spawned = false...

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