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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

By : Alan Thorn
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Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

Mastering Unity 2017 Game Development with C#

2.5 (2)
By: Alan Thorn

Overview of this book

Do you want to make the leap from being an everyday Unity developer to being a pro game developer? Then look no further! This book is your one-stop solution to creating mesmerizing games with lifelike features and amazing gameplay. This book focuses in some detail on a practical project with Unity, building a first-person game with many features. You'll delve into the architecture of a Unity game, creating expansive worlds, interesting render effects, and other features to make your games special. You will create individual game components, use efficient animation techniques, and implement collision and physics effectively. Specifically, we'll explore optimal techniques for importing game assets, such as meshes and textures; tips and tricks for effective level design; how to animate and script NPCs; how to configure and deploy to mobile devices; how to prepare for VR development; how to work with version control; and more. By the end of this book, you'll have developed sufficient competency in Unity development to produce fun games with confidence.
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Player preferences - saving data

For Dead Keys, the player progresses through a sequence of levels, one after another. Upon reaching the end of one level, the next begins. As the player moves from level to level, their progress should be saved so that the most recent player can easily resume their progress from the highest attained level on their next play session. To achieve this, we need to use only the PlayerPrefs class for storing the highest attained level. Progress cannot be resumed within a level, that is, the player may resume play from the highest attained level, but always from the beginning of that level.

As we'll see later in this chapter, the PlayerPrefs class is all we'll need for saving and loading user data in Dead Keys. This makes our persistent data needs very simple. Nevertheless, we'll cover a range of data storage solutions here, for games of...

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