You're reading from Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023 A comprehensive guide to creating your own strategy game from scratch using C#

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613245

Length 548 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Bruno Cicanci

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of RTS Games

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Real-Time Strategy Games FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity and the Dragoncraft Project

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Our Level Design

5. Chapter 4: Creating the User Interface and HUD

6. Part 2: The Combat Units

7. Chapter 5: Spawning an Army of Units

8. Chapter 6: Commanding an Army of Units

9. Chapter 7: Attacking and Defending Units

10. Chapter 8: Implementing the Pathfinder

11. Part 3: The Battlefield

12. Chapter 9: Adding Enemies

13. Chapter 10: Creating an AI to Attack the Player

14. Chapter 11: Adding Enemies to the Map

15. Part 4: The Gameplay

16. Chapter 12: Balancing the Game’s Difficulty

17. Chapter 13: Producing and Gathering Resources

18. Chapter 14: Crafting Buildings and Defense Towers

19. Chapter 15: Tracking Progression and Objectives

20. Chapter 16: Exporting and Expanding Your Game

21. Index

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Importing and organizing assets from the Unity Asset Store

Now that all the configuration is done for both the Unity Editor and the IDE, we can use our empty project to get started with our RTS game development. This book will cover all the coding aspects of creating an RTS game, but since we are not going to create any art, the free assets from the Unity Asset Store will be used.

Go to the Unity Asset Store (https://assetstore.unity.com) and create a free account that will allow you to download and import the assets in the Unity Editor.

Next, access this public list, which contains all the assets needed to develop our RTS game in this book (https://assetstore.unity.com/lists/creating-a-rts-game-5773122416647) and click on the Add to My Assets button for each of the six assets. Every time you click that button, a pop-up message stating Unity Terms of Service will be displayed for you to accept the terms of service before the asset is added to your account.

Once added, you...