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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

By : John P. Doran

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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

5 (1)

By: John P. Doran

Overview of this book

Unity 2020 brings a lot of new features that can be harnessed for building powerful games for popular mobile platforms. This updated second edition delves into Unity development, covering the new features of Unity, modern development practices, and augmented reality (AR) for creating an immersive mobile experience. The book takes a step-by-step approach to building an endless runner game using Unity to help you learn the concepts of mobile game development. This new edition also covers AR features and explains how to implement them using ARCore and ARKit with Unity. The book explores the new mobile notification package and helps you add notifications for your games. You’ll learn how to add touch gestures and design UI elements that can be used in both landscape and portrait modes at different resolutions. The book then covers the best ways to monetize your games using Unity Ads and in-app purchases before you learn how to integrate your game with various social networks. Next, using Unity’s analytics tools, you’ll enhance your game by gaining insights into how players like and use your game. Finally, you’ll take your games into the real world by implementing AR capabilities and publishing them on both Android and iOS app stores. By the end of this book, you will have learned Unity tools and techniques and be able to use them to build robust cross-platform mobile games.

Preface

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Building Your Game

Building Your Game

Technical requirements

Setting up the project

Creating the player

Moving the player through a C# script

Improving our scripts with attributes and XML comments

Having the camera following our player

Creating a basic tile

Making it endless

Creating obstacles

Summary

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Project Setup for Android and iOS Development

Project Setup for Android and iOS Development

Technical requirements

An introduction to build settings

Building a project for PC

Exporting a project for Android

Putting the project on your Android device

Unity for iOS setup and Xcode installation

Building a project for iOS

Summary

Mobile Input/Touch Controls

Mobile Input/Touch Controls

Technical requirements

Using mouse input

Moving using touch controls

Implementing a gesture

Scaling the player using pinches

Using the accelerometer

Detecting touch on game objects

Summary

Resolution-Independent UI

Resolution-Independent UI

Technical requirements

Creating a title screen

Working with buttons

Adding a pause menu

Pausing the game

Adapting GUI for notch devices

Summary

Advertising Using Unity Ads

Advertising Using Unity Ads

Technical requirements

Setting up Unity Ads

Displaying a simple ad

Utilizing ad callback methods

Opt-in advertisements with rewards

Adding in a cooldown timer

Summary

Implementing In-App Purchases

Implementing In-App Purchases

Technical requirements

Setting up Unity IAP

Creating our first purchase

Adding a button to restore purchases

Summary

Further reading

Getting Social

Getting Social

Technical requirements

Adding a scoring system

Sharing high scores via Twitter

Downloading and installing Facebook's SDK

Logging in to our game via Facebook

Displaying a Facebook name and profile picture

Summary

Keeping Players Involved with Notifications

Keeping Players Involved with Notifications

Technical requirements

Setting up notifications

Scheduling notifications ahead of time

Customizing notifications

Summary

Using Unity Analytics

Using Unity Analytics

Technical requirements

Setting up Analytics

Tracking Custom Events

Working with Funnel Analyzer

Tweaking properties with Remote Settings

Summary

Making Your Title Juicy

Making Your Title Juicy

Technical requirements

Animation using LeanTween

Adding tweens to the pause menu

Working with materials

Using post-processing effects

Adding particle effects

Summary

Game Build and Submission

Game Build and Submission

Technical requirements

Building a release copy of our game

Putting your game on the Google Play Store

Putting your game on the Apple iOS App Store

Summary

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality

Technical requirements

Setting up a project for AR

Basic setup

Detecting surfaces

Interacting with the AR environment

Spawning objects in AR

Summary

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Setting up the project

Now that we have our goals in mind, let's start building our project:

To get started, open Unity Hub on your computer.
From startup, we'll opt to create a new project by clicking on the New button.
Next, under Project Name, put in a name (I have chosen MobileDev), and under Templates, make sure that 3D is selected. Afterward, click on CREATE and wait for Unity to load up:

After it's finished, you'll see the Unity Editor pop up for the first time:

If your layout doesn't look the same as in the preceding screenshot, go to the top-right section of the toolbar and select the drop-down menu there that reads Layout. From there, select Default from the options presented:

In this particular build of Unity, at the time of writing, it appears as if there are some preview packages in use. This likely will not be the case in the future but steps to fix this will be included just in case.

If the Preview Packages in Use button is visible...

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