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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

You're reading from Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Enter the world of 2D Game development with Unity 5.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781784397173

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Francesco Sapio

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. A Flat World in Unity

2. Baking Cupcake Towers FREE CHAPTER

3. Communicating with the Player – the User Interface

4. No Longer Alone – Sweet-Toothed Pandas Strike

5. The Secret Ingredient Is a Dash of Physics

6. Through a Sea of Sprinkles – Navigation in Artificial Intelligence

7. Trading Cupcakes and the Ultimate Battle for the Cake – Gameplay Programming

8. What Is beyond the Cake?

The importance of artificial intelligence in video games

Imagine a tower defense game without enemies to compete against, it's just you and a bunch of towers. Games like SimCity (www.simcity.com) would cease to exist. Games would become predictable experiences, their replay value would be greatly diminished, and MMOs would become ordinary. It would be the apocalypse of dynamic gameplay, without being too dramatic. Therefore, for any game to provide a dynamic and growing experience, AI is essential.

Artificial intelligence, or simply AI, allows systems to think and then behave just like humans, or animals. Over time, these systems can learn from the behavior of its user; for example, if they are progressing too easily, or if they are struggling, then the system is able to make adjustments to the game (in real time) so that the game adapts to the player. This concept refers to machine learning.

AI in computer games refers to the behaviour and decision-making process of game components such...

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Authors (1)

Sapio

Sapio

Francesco Sapio received his Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics degree from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, a couple of semesters in advance, graduating with summa cum laude; he is currently a researcher at the same university. He is an Unreal and Unity 3D expert, skilled game designer, and an experienced user of major graphics programs. He helped the development of many games (both educational and commercial). He is also an active writer on the topic of game development. Finally, Francesco loves math, philosophy, logic, and puzzle solving, but most of all, creating video gamesthanks to his passion for game designing and programming.

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