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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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Sprite animation

Besides the 2D sprite system, Unity has created and updated their animation to handle 2D. With a greatly enhanced dope sheet animation/clip controller and full integration with the Mecanim state management system, there is a boundless world of choices available that are easy to use once you get to grips with them.

Animation components

All of the animation in the new 2D system in Unity uses the new Mecanim system (introduced in Version 4) for design and control, which once you get used to is very simple and easy to use.

It is broken up into three main parts: animation controllers, animation clips, and animator components.

Animation controllers

Animation controllers are simply state machines that are used to control when an animation should be played and how often, including what conditions control the transition between each state. In the new 2D system, there must be at least one controller per animation for it to play, and controllers can contain many animations as you can...

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