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Mastering Unity 2D game development

By : Jackson

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Mastering Unity 2D game development

3.8 (21)

By: Jackson

Overview of this book

If you have C# knowledge but now want to become truly confident in creating fully functional 2D RPG games with Unity, then this book will show you everything you need to know.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Overview

1. Overview

Getting assets

Welcome to 2D

Summary

2. Building a Character

2. Building a Character

Getting your project started – the right way

Understanding components

Creating the project

Classes

Planning behaviors

Introducing the Unity sprite system

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

3. Getting Animated

3. Getting Animated

Sprite animation

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

4. The Game World

4. The Game World

Backgrounds and layers

Building the scene

Working with the camera

Transitioning and bounds

Backgrounds and active elements

Shaders and 2D

Going further

Summary

5. NPCs and Interactions

5. NPCs and Interactions

Considering an RPG

Advanced programming techniques

Communicating between game objects

Background tasks and Coroutines

Serialization and scripting

Putting it all together

Going further

Summary

6. The Big Wild World

6. The Big Wild World

The larger view

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away

7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away

Event systems

Exploring randomness

Basic Artificial Intelligence

State machines

Sensors

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

8. Shopping for Weapons

8. Shopping for Weapons

Why do we shop?

The power of an item

Building your shop

Laying out your inventory

Getting paid

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

9. Getting Ready to Fight

9. Getting Ready to Fight

Efficient RPG UI overlays

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

10. Fight and Gain XP

10. Fight and Gain XP

Proving ground

Leveling up

Balancing

Putting it together

Going further

Summary

11. Onward Wary Traveler

11. Onward Wary Traveler

Extending the editor

Building in-game menu structures

Working with settings

Going further

Summary

12. Deployment and Beyond

12. Deployment and Beyond

Handling platform differences

Pushing code from Unity3D

Building your assets

Packaging gotchas

Marketing your game

Summary

A. Additional Resources

A. Additional Resources

Scripting resources

Useful assets

Sources of art and SFX

Highlights from the Web

Index

Index

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Going further

Now, you are probably thinking at this point, "What about the rest of the battle?" Put simply, I leave that up to you.

You are now armed with everything you need to know to be able to complete the rest of the battle scene. You should not just stop there, however, and you should see just how far along you can get.

Try expanding the battle to include various states using the following steps:

Add an onscreen GUI to inform that the control is now changing hands in the Change Control battle state.
Loop through the Goblins and let them attack the player; rough him or her up a bit.
Check whether the battle is complete, and accordingly, either transition back to the Player Move state or set the BattleReady state variable to false to transition to the Battle Result state.
Display a 2D GUI to summarize the battle results and grant the user some experience, perhaps with some gold, each time an enemy is slain.
Transition back to the map when the battle is over.

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