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Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development

You're reading from   Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Enter the world of 2D Game development with Unity 5.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397173
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Sapio Francesco Sapio
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Flat World in Unity 2. Baking Cupcake Towers FREE CHAPTER 3. Communicating with the Player – the User Interface 4. No Longer Alone – Sweet-Toothed Pandas Strike 5. The Secret Ingredient Is a Dash of Physics 6. Through a Sea of Sprinkles – Navigation in Artificial Intelligence 7. Trading Cupcakes and the Ultimate Battle for the Cake – Gameplay Programming 8. What Is beyond the Cake?

Creating your online presence


These days, if it's not on the Internet, it doesn't exist. Well, if you're not social, it will be hard for people to know what you are up to, let alone knowing that you are making a game! You don't spend months or years developing something only to have no one come to the party. But this can be fixed, and it does require a bit of planning and time, so be prepared, but I promise you it will be worth it in the end.

Do your research

If you're going for a job interview, you wouldn't go in there without having done a bit of research about your potential employer, the same goes for making a name for yourself. While it's good to get everyone's attention, ideally, you want to get noticed by the right people. One way to do this is to pay close attention to companies, products, and even individuals who are also in the same market as you; and observe who they interact with, what kind of social media tagging are they utilizing. For example, are they using a particular hashtag...

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