You're reading from Learning Design Patterns with Unity Learn the secret of popular design patterns while building fun, efficient games in Unity 2023 and C#

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805120285

Length 676 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Design Patterns

Author (1):

Harrison Ferrone

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Priming the System

2. Managing Access with the Singleton Pattern FREE CHAPTER

3. Spawning Enemies with the Prototype Pattern

4. Creating Items with the Factory Method Pattern

5. Building a Crafting System with the Abstract Factory Pattern

6. Assembling Support Characters with the Builder Pattern

7. Managing Performance and Memory with Object Pooling

8. Binding Actions with the Command Pattern

9. Decoupling Systems with the Observer Pattern

10. Controlling Behavior with the State Pattern

11. Adding Features with the Visitor Pattern

12. Swapping Algorithms with the Strategy Pattern

13. Making Monsters with the Type Object Pattern

14. Taking Data Snapshots with the Memento Pattern

15. Dynamic Upgrades with the Decorator Pattern

16. Converting Incompatible Classes with the Adapter Pattern

17. Simplifying Subsystems with the Façade Pattern

18. Generating Terrains with the Flyweight Pattern

19. Global Access with the Service Locator Pattern

20. The Road Ahead

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Technical requirements

Before you start:

Download or clone the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/C-Design-Patterns-with-Unity-First-Edition.
Open the Ch_10_Starter project folder in Unity Hub.
In Assets | Scenes, double-click on SampleScene.

Unity’s animation and visual scripting systems already use the State pattern to make your life easier, so kudos if you were thinking along those same lines! Since we’re concerned with how to implement the State pattern in C#, we won’t be using these ready-made features. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t use them separately or together. In fact, using code to trigger the animation system works well with our programmatic approach. You can read more about animation state machines at https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StateMachineBasics.html and Unity’s visual scripting at https://unity.com/features/unity-visual-scripting.

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