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Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide by Thomas Finnegan
Absolute beginners to designing games for Android will find this book is their passport to quick results. Lots of handholding and practical exercises using Unity 3D makes learning a breeze. Overview In Detail Powerful and continuing to grow, the mobile market has never been bigger and more demanding of great games. Android continues to prove itself as a strong contender in this challenging market. With Unity 3D, great games can be made for Android quickly and easily. With its great deployment system, the Android platform is now only one click away. Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide dives straight into making real, fully-functional games, with hands-on examples and step-by-step instructions to give you a firm grounding in Unity 3D and Android. Everything necessary for creating a complete gaming experience is covered and detailed throughout the course of this book. Using clear and practical examples that progressively build upon each other, this book guides you through the process of creating games in Unity for Android. Start by learning about all the great features that Unity and Android have to offer. Next, create a Tic-Tac-Toe game while learning all about interfaces. After that, learn about meshes, materials, and animations with the creation of a tank battle game. You will then learn how to expand your game's environment with the addition of shadows and a skybox. Adding on this, you will also learn how to expand the tank battle by creating enemies and using path finding to chase the player. Next, explore touch and tilt controls with the creation of a space fighter game. Then, learn about physics while recreating the most popular mobile game on the market. You will then expand the space fighter game with the addition of all the special effects that make a game great. Finally, complete your experience by learning the optimization techniques required to keep your games running smoothly. While Unity is available for both Mac and Windows, the book is presented working from a Windows environment. Programming in Unity is possible in C#, JavaScript, and Boo. This book will be working in C# and the final projects will be provided in C# and JavaScript. From nothing to a fully-featured mobile game, Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide takes you through everything it takes to create your next game for the Android platform. What you will learn from this book
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First published December 20, 2013
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January 28, 2014
Packt publishing have been on a bit of a roll lately with Unity books. I picked up this and the playmaker book for some holidays study type fun.
This was by far the best.
3 large detailed examples to work through, really impressed by the content detail and layout. There are some poorly explained game logic sections but since that's not the focus of the book I easily forgive it. (a couple of very clever blocks of code that do in 2 lines what I would have done in 20, my c# is a little on the beginners side)
Highly recommended if you're interested in using unity to develop for android.
Just make sure you have spent a little time with C# first. =)
Pick it up direct http://bit.ly/19cHiKU
This was by far the best.
3 large detailed examples to work through, really impressed by the content detail and layout. There are some poorly explained game logic sections but since that's not the focus of the book I easily forgive it. (a couple of very clever blocks of code that do in 2 lines what I would have done in 20, my c# is a little on the beginners side)
Highly recommended if you're interested in using unity to develop for android.
Just make sure you have spent a little time with C# first. =)
Pick it up direct http://bit.ly/19cHiKU
January 28, 2014
I read this book because I wanted to start making games on my Android device, and I know Unity is a very good software program to create games for beginners and professionals. I was already familiar with programming, especially with C#, and I was fairly familiar with Unity and Android before reading this book, so I wanted to give this book a try to see if it could get me more familiar with how Unity and Android could work together to create great games.
There were a lot of good things I liked about this book and also a few things I didn't. The few things I didn't like about the book are minor inconveniences. The first thing for me were the beginning chapters only because they were for beginners of Android and Unity which is what the book is supposed to be for so that didn't bother me. I thought the examples in the book could have been a little better but they were okay for a beginner book. The other thing I didn't like too much was that for some of the book, you need to have Unity Pro in order to complete some of the examples fully, but you can still use the free version of Unity and have complete examples, so the good greatly outweighed the bad.
The books examples were explained pretty well and I liked that they continue on with existing examples in the later chapters so you can expand on them. It also explains the differences between the pro version and the free version of Unity and why you would need or want the pro version. This book is very good for beginners of Unity and Android because the examples are very clear and are explained in good detail, but you should be somewhat familiar with C# before reading. I also like that this book teaches by example and shows each example step by step which helps in the learning process.
Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend it if you want to learn about Unity and Android and start creating games.
There were a lot of good things I liked about this book and also a few things I didn't. The few things I didn't like about the book are minor inconveniences. The first thing for me were the beginning chapters only because they were for beginners of Android and Unity which is what the book is supposed to be for so that didn't bother me. I thought the examples in the book could have been a little better but they were okay for a beginner book. The other thing I didn't like too much was that for some of the book, you need to have Unity Pro in order to complete some of the examples fully, but you can still use the free version of Unity and have complete examples, so the good greatly outweighed the bad.
The books examples were explained pretty well and I liked that they continue on with existing examples in the later chapters so you can expand on them. It also explains the differences between the pro version and the free version of Unity and why you would need or want the pro version. This book is very good for beginners of Unity and Android because the examples are very clear and are explained in good detail, but you should be somewhat familiar with C# before reading. I also like that this book teaches by example and shows each example step by step which helps in the learning process.
Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend it if you want to learn about Unity and Android and start creating games.
February 12, 2014
This book is a must have for anyone who wants to develop games for Android platform without any prior experience of unity and android.
Everything from downloading the software to setting up your android device for testing has been explained step by step along with images.
The best thing for me is the game examples covered in this book which forms the basics of most of the successful games on the market.Each & every bit of code has been explained along with the images.
A dedicated chapter to particle effects is what has been missing in other unity books but is covered in proper detail in this book.
Even if you want to develop 2d games with unity 4.3 this book will help
you out and you can apply it to 2d games as well and use all the features and sensors of android phones in your game.
Everything from downloading the software to setting up your android device for testing has been explained step by step along with images.
The best thing for me is the game examples covered in this book which forms the basics of most of the successful games on the market.Each & every bit of code has been explained along with the images.
A dedicated chapter to particle effects is what has been missing in other unity books but is covered in proper detail in this book.
Even if you want to develop 2d games with unity 4.3 this book will help
you out and you can apply it to 2d games as well and use all the features and sensors of android phones in your game.
March 20, 2015
Good book, but now, with new Unity 5, this book is outdated.
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