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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

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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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
1. Overview
1. Overview
Getting assets
Welcome to 2D
Summary
2
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
3. Getting Animated
3. Getting Animated
Sprite animation
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
4
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
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
6. The Big Wild World
6. The Big Wild World
The larger view
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
7
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
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
9. Getting Ready to Fight
9. Getting Ready to Fight
Efficient RPG UI overlays
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
10
10. Fight and Gain XP
10. Fight and Gain XP
Proving ground
Leveling up
Balancing
Putting it together
Going further
Summary
11
11. Onward Wary Traveler
11. Onward Wary Traveler
Extending the editor
Building in-game menu structures
Working with settings
Going further
Summary
12
12. Deployment and Beyond
12. Deployment and Beyond
Handling platform differences
Pushing code from Unity3D
Building your assets
Packaging gotchas
Marketing your game
Summary
13
A. Additional Resources
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A. Additional Resources
Scripting resources
Useful assets
Sources of art and SFX
Highlights from the Web
14
Index
Index

Useful assets

The asset store holds a vast array of good and not so good offerings, some free, some reasonable, and some just down right ludicrous.

Based on what we have covered in this book, the following are some prebuilt alternatives you can use if you don't want to roll your own; above all, they are highly rated and reviewed:

  • LeenTween isn't just a powerful tweening solution (a framework that will create transitions smoothly between two points, like animations), but it also has a very robust and easy-to-use messaging system bundled with it. It is available at https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/3595.

    For more details on how to use LeanTween or its event dispatcher (messaging), visit the DentedPixels website, http://dentedpixel.com/.

    You might also find some other interesting topics there (my favorite being procedural textures scripts).

    Tip

    Also what's noteworthy on the store is a very in-depth review of all the competitor tweening solutions and the pros/cons of each...

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