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

To get started:

Download or clone the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/C-Design-Patterns-with-Unity-First-Edition.
Open the Ch_18_Starter project folder in Unity Hub.
In Assets | Scenes, double-click on SampleScene.

The starter project for this chapter is a completely blank canvas that we’re going to diligently (and randomly) draw on with generated terrain tiles to provide our future players with an arena to explore. Any 2D or 3D tactics games you’ve played in the past (I’m looking at you, Final Fantasy Tactics) will be our guiding light. Since this example is heavily dependent on procedurally creating our visuals, you’ll have to be a little patient with the UI until we get things running in the scene.

As for the scripts: