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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

By : John P. Doran
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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

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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.
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Using the accelerometer

Another type of input that mobile has, that PC doesn't, is the accelerometer. This allows you to move in game by tilting the physical position of the phone. The most popular example of this is likely the movement of the player in games such as Lima Sky's Doodle Jump and Gameloft's Asphalt series. To do something similar, we can retrieve the acceleration of our device using the Input.acceleration property and use it to move the player. Let's look at the steps to do just that:

  1. We may want to allow our designers to set whether they want to use this mode, or the ScreenTouch we used previously. With that in mind, let's create a new enum with the possible values to place in the PlayerBehaviour script above the Swipe Properties header:
[Tooltip("How fast the ball moves forwards automatically")]
[Range(0, 10)]
public float rollSpeed = 5;

public enum MobileHorizMovement
{
Accelerometer,
ScreenTouch
}

public MobileHorizMovement horizMovement...

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