Unity Game Development Blueprints: Explore the various enticing features of Unity and learn how to develop awesome games

John P. Doran

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4 (6 Ratings)

Paperback Nov 2014 318 pages 1st Edition

John P. Doran

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If you want to build enticing projects with Unity, this book is for you. Readers who are familiar with the basics of how to create simple projects in Unity will have an easier time.

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MS HURST Dec 05, 2014

I had already watched a lot of the little tutorials explaining various concepts in Unity on the official website and although they were good, not using them in an actual project meant I didn't get a chance to see how things all work together. That is where this book comes in.The book comprises of 3 main projects (Demo videos of which are available on youtube from the author, well worth a look if you want to see what you will be making). These projects are:1) 2D Shooter (Essentially a geometry-wars type game)2) 2D Platformer using 3D assets and physics3) 3D First person "horror" gameThere are also chapters on useful concepts such as GUI (You are shown how to make a main menu, pause menu and options screen for your first project), a 2D level editor for the second project and saving and loading progress for the thirdThe projects are excellent in that they give you enough information to make a basic playable game, and then task you with adding some extra features to it, such as adding in controller capabilities for the first projectA huge bonus with this book is that it also includes a chapter on the new GUI system introduced in the Unity 4.6 beta. It is the final chapter in the book and as such doesn't have to be used if you're not using the beta version (The proper GUI chapter still uses the old system) but very handy for people who want to get ahead of the curve with the new featuresAll in all I would hugely recommend this book both to people who have opened Unity once and been completely baffled and people who have a basic understanding and need to take it to the next level in order to create full projects

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steve Nov 08, 2016

Excellent way to learn how to build and code games in Unity.

Thom Dec 21, 2014

After reading many, many, many books about Unity development, I honestly believe THIS IS THE BEST one!It is complete yet guides you through carefully; several projects from 2D side-scroller to a fully-implemented First Person Shooter.Along the way, details on GUI menus, Environments, and other sophisticated topics are introduced appropriately.

Chev Dec 18, 2014

The book has a nice pace for beginners, it gives explanations when needed and moves at a nice speed. I do wish the author (John Doran) went into more detail as to why he chose to do certain things a certain way instead of a perform these steps exactly like this approach. Following along with the book using Unity you do get to make the games from the book but not a whole lot of explaining as to why we need to do things a certain way. So creating your own game from scratch will prove to be problematic for those without prior experience. The chapter on UI is now a little dated due to the new UI system in Unity 4.6 but thankfully there is another chapter later in the book going over the new UI system in Unity 4.6. Kudos for the Author on providing information on both UI systems for the readers. The chapters on creating a First Person Shooter are my favorite, there was a lot of thought and effort into how best to explain things to a beginner. Creating Exterior Environments actually covers a lot of Unity tools but its doesn’t seem crammed or rushed. It walks you thru creating outside environments and the tools you will use in such a way that you forget you are learning and just get immersed into the FPS environment you are creating. Also props to the author for having us to a nighttime scene, I always see examples and tutorials on daytime environments but none on nighttime environments. In my opinion its much harder to get the realism and general creepiness of a nighttime forrest environment then some sunny blue sky perfect green grass environments most books teach you with. Now would be a good time to note that the author takes time to explain the different roles when it comes to game development so the reader can see the different areas involved. One chapter we are creating the outside environment as an environmental artist and the next we are creating interiors as a level designer. its great to see the different roles and how everything comes together. The interior environments chapter goes over modular level design with tiles which is what many of the larger AAA games use. Its a topic that is hard to find good information on but the author nails it in chapter 5. The rest of the FPS chapters go over AI, state machines, saving and some other great topics. Like I said previously, the chapters on creating a First Person Shooter were my favorite. There are so many good nuggets of info in those chapters I found myself reading the over and over trying to catch everything.Overall Unity Game Development Blueprints is a good book that covers a lot of topics and concepts of game development. This book shows the correct way of game development that can be used in real world AAA games. It doesn’t do what most books do and show you just a watered down way leaving you with many questions and lack of understanding of how the AAA titles and developers work. John Doran has over 10 years in the industry and it really shows in this book. I would easily recommend this to anyone wanting to learn the proper way to develop games just like the big guys

W Boudville Dec 21, 2014

The screen shots in the book of the Unity development platform show a comprehensive array of options. All of which you can use to write a compelling interactive game. The book walks through extended examples that give source code snippets. So while you are interested in how the end user would play a game, the book describes another type of interplay. Between using the Unity GUI and the resultant source code as well as (of course!) the images seen by a player.The presumption is of little prior game writing. The easiest way to see this might be in chapter 3, where the switch statement is introduced and explained. This is pretty basic stuff to anyone who has programmed in any language! What is happening is that the book is pitched towards a reader who has a good [presumably] game idea to storyboard, but perhaps has little actual programming nous.The chapters end with a section called Challenges. These have suggestions about how to extend the example in each chapter. If this is indeed new programming to you, good advice might be to take up those suggestions. You can learn more by doing. Deepens your knowledge of using Unity.

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