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Unity in Action, Third Edition: Multiplatform game development in C#
This hands-on beginners guide gets you building games fast, all with the awesome Unity engine! You’ll speed past the basics and use your existing coding skills to create 2D, 3D, and AR/VR games.
In Unity in Action, Third Edition, you will learn how
Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
Build 3D first-person shooters and third-person action games
Construct 2D card games and side-scrolling platformers
Script enemies with AI
Improve game graphics by importing models and images
Design an intuitive user interface for your games
Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
Connect your games to the internet for online play
Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web
Thousands of new game developers have chosen Joe Hocking’s Unity in Action as their first step toward Unity mastery. Starting with the initial groundwork of a new game development project, you’ll quickly start writing custom code instead of clicking together premade scripts. This fully updated third edition comes packed with fully refreshed graphics, Unity’s latest features, and coverage of augmented and virtual reality toolkits. You'll master the Unity toolset from the ground up, learning the skills to go from application coder to game developer.
Foreword by Jesse Schell.
About the technology
Writing games is rewarding and fun—and with Unity, it’s easy to get started! Unity handles the heavy lifting, so you can focus on game play, graphics, and user experience. C# support and a huge ecosystem of prebuilt components help even first-time developers go from the drawing board to the screen fast.
About the book
Unity in Action, Third Edition teaches you to create games with the Unity game platform. It’s many 2D, 3D, and AR/VR game examples give you hands-on experience with Unity’s workflow tools and state-of-the-art rendering engine. This fully updated third edition presents new coverage of Unity’s XR toolkit and shows you how you can start building with virtual and augmented reality.
What's inside
Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
Script enemies with AI
Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web
About the reader
For programmers who know any object-oriented programming language. Examples are in C#.
About the author
Joe Hocking is a software engineer and Unity expert specializing in interactive media development.
Table of Contents
PART 1 FIRST STEPS
1 Getting to know Unity
2 Building a demo that puts you in 3D space
3 Adding enemies and projectiles to the 3D game
4 Developing graphics for your game
PART 2 GETTING COMFORTABLE
5 Building a Memory game using Unity’s 2D functionality
6 Creating a basic 2D platformer
7 Putting a GUI onto a game
8 Creating a third-person 3D Player movement and animation
9 Adding interactive devices and items within the game
PART 3 STRONG FINISH
10 Connecting your game to the internet
11 Playing Sound effects and musi
In Unity in Action, Third Edition, you will learn how
Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
Build 3D first-person shooters and third-person action games
Construct 2D card games and side-scrolling platformers
Script enemies with AI
Improve game graphics by importing models and images
Design an intuitive user interface for your games
Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
Connect your games to the internet for online play
Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web
Thousands of new game developers have chosen Joe Hocking’s Unity in Action as their first step toward Unity mastery. Starting with the initial groundwork of a new game development project, you’ll quickly start writing custom code instead of clicking together premade scripts. This fully updated third edition comes packed with fully refreshed graphics, Unity’s latest features, and coverage of augmented and virtual reality toolkits. You'll master the Unity toolset from the ground up, learning the skills to go from application coder to game developer.
Foreword by Jesse Schell.
About the technology
Writing games is rewarding and fun—and with Unity, it’s easy to get started! Unity handles the heavy lifting, so you can focus on game play, graphics, and user experience. C# support and a huge ecosystem of prebuilt components help even first-time developers go from the drawing board to the screen fast.
About the book
Unity in Action, Third Edition teaches you to create games with the Unity game platform. It’s many 2D, 3D, and AR/VR game examples give you hands-on experience with Unity’s workflow tools and state-of-the-art rendering engine. This fully updated third edition presents new coverage of Unity’s XR toolkit and shows you how you can start building with virtual and augmented reality.
What's inside
Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
Script enemies with AI
Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web
About the reader
For programmers who know any object-oriented programming language. Examples are in C#.
About the author
Joe Hocking is a software engineer and Unity expert specializing in interactive media development.
Table of Contents
PART 1 FIRST STEPS
1 Getting to know Unity
2 Building a demo that puts you in 3D space
3 Adding enemies and projectiles to the 3D game
4 Developing graphics for your game
PART 2 GETTING COMFORTABLE
5 Building a Memory game using Unity’s 2D functionality
6 Creating a basic 2D platformer
7 Putting a GUI onto a game
8 Creating a third-person 3D Player movement and animation
9 Adding interactive devices and items within the game
PART 3 STRONG FINISH
10 Connecting your game to the internet
11 Playing Sound effects and musi
744 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2022
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April 5, 2023
I had already did the whole second edition a while back and came back for this one for a refreshing since I hadn't been keeping up with game dev.
This book is perfect for a newcomer, specially if they do already now some programming, it can came to a surprise a lot of the Mathematical and functions that even though some are similar to everyday programming, a lot are quite different but it's warranted for a totally different area, but Joe and Unity take you into a step by step to create some nice good looking demos, that provide the building blocks to do more and not end you bashing your head around.
Great book as a starter, I think this book is most of what you need to start just doing and learning by creating your projects.
This book is perfect for a newcomer, specially if they do already now some programming, it can came to a surprise a lot of the Mathematical and functions that even though some are similar to everyday programming, a lot are quite different but it's warranted for a totally different area, but Joe and Unity take you into a step by step to create some nice good looking demos, that provide the building blocks to do more and not end you bashing your head around.
Great book as a starter, I think this book is most of what you need to start just doing and learning by creating your projects.
September 14, 2023
Amazing book, incredibly helpful and detailed, great pacing, but as of this week Unity can go fuck itself.
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