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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development

You're reading from Mastering Unity 2D Game Development Using Unity 5 to develop a retro RPG

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463456

Length 506 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

2D Game Development

Authors (2):

Simon Jackson

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Overview

2. Building Your Project and Character FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Animated

4. The Town View

5. Working with Unitys UI System

6. NPCs and Interactions

7. The World Map

8. Encountering Enemies and Running Away

9. Getting Ready to Fight

10. The Battle Begins

11. Shopping for Items

12. Sound and Music

13. Putting a Bow on It

14. Deployment and Beyond

Chapter 5. Working with Unitys UI System

The next few chapters are going to require us to create a User Interface (UI). However, before we begin with that, I want to discuss the various features of the Unity UI system. This chapter will provide an overview of each of the elements available with the UI system and we will utilize them in the future chapters.

The UI system was implemented in Unity 4.6 and has made the incorporation of a UI system significantly easier than it was in the past. This UI system has essentially made any of the old GUI functions a thing of the past. These functions are still useful for procedurally generating a UI, but, for the most part, if you see a reference to GUI functions, it was written prior to version 4.6 and is handling UI in a much harder way than necessary.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

UI Canvas
UI Text and Images
UI Layout and Rect Transform
UI Buttons

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Authors (2)

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Ashley Godbold is a programmer, game designer, artist, mathematician, and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Master of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design, and a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media where her dissertation research focused on educational video game design. She also authored Mastering Unity 2D Game Development: Second Edition (Packt Publishing) and the first edition of Mastering UI Development with Unity. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games and watching anime with her husband, daughter, three cats, and dog.

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Jackson

Jackson

Simon Jackson is a long-time soft ware engineer and architect with many years of Unity game development experience, as well as an author of several Unity game development titles. He loves to both create Unity projects and lend a hand to help educate others, whether it's via a blog, vlog, user group, or major speaking event. He currently works at a mixed-reality research lab called xRealityLabs, building the future of digital solutions for the construction and medical industries. His primary focus at the moment is on the Reality Toolkit project, which is aimed at building a cross-platform mixed-reality framework to enable both VR and AR developers to build efficient solutions in Unity.

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