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Mastering Unity 2D game development

Mastering Unity 2D game development

By : Jackson
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Mastering Unity 2D game development

Mastering Unity 2D game development

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By: Jackson
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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Overview
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1. Overview
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Getting assets
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Welcome to 2D
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Summary
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2. Building a Character
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2. Building a Character
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Getting your project started – the right way
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Understanding components
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Creating the project
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Classes
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Planning behaviors
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Introducing the Unity sprite system
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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3. Getting Animated
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3. Getting Animated
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Sprite animation
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Putting it together
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4. The Game World
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4. The Game World
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Backgrounds and layers
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Building the scene
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Working with the camera
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Transitioning and bounds
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Backgrounds and active elements
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Shaders and 2D
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Summary
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5. NPCs and Interactions
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5. NPCs and Interactions
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Considering an RPG
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Advanced programming techniques
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Communicating between game objects
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Background tasks and Coroutines
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Serialization and scripting
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Putting it all together
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Summary
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6. The Big Wild World
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6. The Big Wild World
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The larger view
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Putting it together
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7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away
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7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away
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Event systems
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Exploring randomness
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Basic Artificial Intelligence
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State machines
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Sensors
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Putting it together
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Going further
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8. Shopping for Weapons
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8. Shopping for Weapons
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Why do we shop?
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The power of an item
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Building your shop
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Laying out your inventory
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Getting paid
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Putting it together
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9. Getting Ready to Fight
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9. Getting Ready to Fight
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Efficient RPG UI overlays
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Putting it together
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Going further
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Summary
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10. Fight and Gain XP
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10. Fight and Gain XP
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Proving ground
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Leveling up
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Balancing
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Putting it together
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Going further
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11. Onward Wary Traveler
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11. Onward Wary Traveler
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Extending the editor
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Building in-game menu structures
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Working with settings
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Going further
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12. Deployment and Beyond
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12. Deployment and Beyond
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Handling platform differences
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Pushing code from Unity3D
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Building your assets
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Packaging gotchas
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Marketing your game
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A. Additional Resources
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A. Additional Resources
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Scripting resources
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Useful assets
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Sources of art and SFX
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Highlights from the Web
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Index
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Index

Building in-game menu structures

Usually left as an afterthought or slapped on at the end, menu systems are just as important as your game in most aspects. How the user interacts/starts or walks through all the sections of your game leading to the actual gameplay can radically change how the user feels about your game. There's no point in having a world-beating game if the first thing the user sees on starting your game is a roughly drawn or shabby-looking menu system. The best menu systems I've seen are actually seamlessly built into the game mechanics themselves.

The screens

First off, you need to work out the structure of your menu systems in advance; it doesn't need to be heavy, just understand the flow of your game from start to finish and then iterate on that design until it looks impressive and easy to use. The kinds of screens and areas that you need to focus on are covered in the next section.

Splash screens

Splash screens tell the user about you and your brand; it&apos...

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