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You're reading from Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 Learn C# Programming by building fun and interactive games with Unity

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788478922

Length 290 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Game Scripting

Author (1):

Micael DaGraça

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready FREE CHAPTER

2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts

3. Getting into the Details of Variables

4. Getting into the Details of Methods

5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries

6. Loops

7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods

8. Let's Make a Game! – from Idea to Development

9. Starting Your First Game

10. Writing GameManager

11. The Game Level

12. The User Interface

13. Collectables

14. Enemies

15. Audio, 3D Games, and Export

The User Interface

Now that we know how to design a level and make it playable, it is time to introduce a User Interface (UI) into our game. We will construct and implement a simple, dynamic UI using Unity's built-in UI system.

But what is a UI? As the name suggests, a user interface is the text, images, or animations that we can see on top of our game; it is a bridge between a human and a computer program, practically all the graphical elements that the user can interact with to control the game or to get information from it. For example, virtual buttons that we can see displayed on mobile games are part of the UI, and the text that shows us the number of coins that we have collected is also part of the UI.

For our game, we need a few UI elements to make it more interesting and to give it a purpose, because without any graphics we don't...

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Authors (2)

DaGraça

Micael DaGraça is a professional game designer and interactive creator who works with independent video game studios and creates interactive apps focused on the health and pharmaceutical industries. He studied digital arts at the University of IESA Multimedia, Paris, and ESAD Matosinhos. He started his career as a project manager in a small studio and then gradually started working as a game developer by helping other studios to develop their games. More recently, he has been creating interactive content for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Grzegorz Lukosek

Greg Lukosek was born and raised in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. When he was about 8 years old, his amazing parents bought him and his brother a Commodore C64. That was when his love of programming started. He would spend hours writing simple basic code, and when he couldn't write it on the computer directly, he used a notepad. Greg completed his mechanical engineering diploma at ZSTiO Meritum— Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland. He has learned all his programming skills through determination and hard work at home. Greg met the love of his life, Kasia, in 2003, which changed his life forever. They both moved to London in search of adventure and decided to stay there. He started work as a 3D artist and drifted away from programming for some years. Deep inside, he still felt the urge to come back to game programming. During his career as a 3D artist, he discovered Unity and adopted it for an interactive visualizations project. At that very moment, he started programming again. His love for programming overcomes his love for 3D graphics. Greg ditched his 3D artist career and came back to writing code professionally. He is now doing what he really wanted to do since he was 8 years old—developing games. These days, Greg lives in a little town called Sandy in the UK with Kasia and their son, Adam.

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