Unity 5.x By Example: An example-based practical guide to get you up and running with Unity 5.x

Alan Thorn

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3.7 (7 Ratings)

eBook Mar 2016 402 pages 1st Edition

Alan Thorn

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eBook Mar 2016 402 pages 1st Edition

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The most updated resource on Unity 5.x with comprehensive discussion on all the new features of Unity 5.x
Understand the core concepts surrounding Unity5 game development with this power-packed hands-on guide
Brush up your existing game development skills and create games that have a brilliant gameplay using the excellent examples from this book

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Unity is an exciting and popular engine in the game industry. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to use Unity by making four fun game projects, from shooters and platformers to exploration and adventure games. Unity 5 By Example is an easy-to-follow guide for quickly learning how to use Unity in practical context, step by step, by making real-world game projects. Even if you have no previous experience of Unity, this book will help you understand the toolset in depth. You'll learn how to create a time-critical collection game, a twin-stick space shooter, a platformer, and an action-fest game with intelligent enemies. In clear and accessible prose, this book will present you with step-by-step tutorials for making four interesting games in Unity 5 and explain all the fundamental concepts along the way. Starting from the ground up and moving toward an intermediate level, this book will help you establish a strong foundation in making games with Unity 5.

Who is this book for?

The ideal target audience for this book would be game developers. They need not have previous experience with Unity since this book will cover all the basics about game development with unity. This would also be a very good resource for Unity developers who want to brush up their basic Unity skills and also get up and running with creating interesting games with Unity 5.x.

What you will learn

Understand core Unity concepts, such as game objects, components, and scenes
Learn level design techniques for building immersive and interesting worlds
Learn to make functional games with C# scripting
Use the toolset creatively to build games of different themes and styles
Learn to handle player controls and input functionality
Dive into the process of working with terrains and world-creation tools
Import custom content into Unity from third-party tools, such as Maya and Blender
Get to grips with making both 2D and 3D games

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Publication date, Length, Edition, Language, ISBN-13

Publication date : Mar 23, 2016

Length: 402 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781785888120

Vendor :

Unity Technologies

Category :

Game Development

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Concepts :

3D Game Development

Tools :

Unity

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HLC Sep 11, 2016

Good Introduction to Unity. This basically gives all the tools required to make your first basic games with minimal programming involved.

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Hugo Apr 23, 2016

This book teach how to build 3 complete and very different games on Unity 5.x from scratch, you will learn how to create the base of each project, how to proceed and create each feature, how to work in Unity editor using some features in a real project. The last two chapters teach how to create a more advanced game, by building a 3D terrain using terrain tools in Unity, a player that can explore and enemy's with AI that follows the player, this will apply most of the techniques showed in the previous chapters and also will able you to use your creativity to create gaming conditions, to finish this game, creating levels, more types of enemy's, the sky is the limit. I think book is for people that already know the basics of Unity and know how to code, more specifically in C#, but doesn't know about game development, but on the other hand, I think that everyone could take this book, even if you know nothing about game development in general but want to learn, or if you are already a game developer, because it will teach you very different techniques of game development, both 2D and 3D, the games are in an interesting scale of complexity, as you learn how to use the power's of Unity and after reading this book you become much more confident in game development, you will be prepared to start almost any kind of project, my suggestion is for start implementing more levels and features in book examples. This book helped me to learn more deeply Unity and I would suggest for my friends who like to create games, Unity is a good choice to start building games and this book is for sure an amazing guide to create complete games. The author know how to write and teach game development in Unity, if you search his name, you will see that he already has made some great games, write some good books and video courses.

Amit Kumar Oct 07, 2018

This Book is good for Beginners who wanna learn Game Designing from Starting

Xa4 Apr 18, 2016

Edit: the author just gave a link to the files in his twitter account ( @thorn_alan ) while we wait for the publisher to finally solve the issue. I've changed my rating accordingly, but it's only based on the first chapters so take the recoomendation with a grain of salt.The book is clear and well written, based on the first chapters. Unfortunately, later chapters require companion files to follow them, and one month after the book's release, they still aren't available on the book's website.I'll change my review when this problem is corrected, but in the meantime, you should delay your purchase.

KeaganRiley Aug 10, 2020

I'm new to game dev but had no issues learning until the book gets to coding its scoring system for the first game. It uses Mono Develop, which I found to be a pain to try and install successfully and just plain not worth it. I tried continuing anyway and just using Visual Studio Code instead but the book's code was not compatible and I'm not experienced enough to properly adapt it. Wouldn't recommend it to beginners unless you're skilled enough in C# to problem solve the code.

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