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Ouya Unity Game Development

You're reading from Ouya Unity Game Development Understanding Unity means you can quickly get the know-how to develop games for the Android-based Ouya console. This is the guide that will take you all the way from setting up the software to monetizing your games.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783559701

Length 118 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Gary Riches

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Ouya Unity Game Development

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. What Is Ouya and Why Does It Matter?

2. Setting Up Unity and the Ouya Plugin FREE CHAPTER

3. Setting Up Your Game

4. Adding a Character and Making Them Move

5. Adding Finesse to Your Game

6. Show Me the Money!

7. Building Cross-platform Games

Index

Boo, C#, or UnityScript

Unity is amazing. With minimal effort you can have a prototype up and running in a few hours. No other engine has allowed such great flexibility. Another of Unity's excellent features is the ability to program in three languages, namely C#, UnityScript, and Boo. Let's go in to the pros and cons of each one, and explain which one we'll be using.

Boo

Boo is an object-oriented, statically-typed programming language that has a syntax inspired by Python. Boo has only been covered here for completeness, the documentation for programming in Unity with Boo is poor to non-existent and only around 5 percent of Unity developers actually use Boo, so finding support when you need it could prove difficult.

UnityScript

If you know JavaScript then you'll feel comfortable with UnityScript. The syntax is exactly the same; you just need to learn all the addressable objects from Unity. Both JavaScript and UnityScript support dynamic typing. This is great if you are just trying to create...

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Authors (1)

Gary Riches

Gary Riches

Gary Riches is a longstanding member of the iOS developer community. He has a keen interest not only in established sections of the industry such as gaming but also in emerging technologies such as Ouya, GameStick, and others. Filled with a passion to program on new systems, he has just become a registered Wii U developer and will also create content for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. To target so many platforms he uses Unity, which he learned while working on the Augmented Reality SBook for Saddington Baynes. When not building software for other companies, he builds his own business by creating photo manipulation apps such as Zombify Me, games such as Aztec Antics and Amazed, and also works on educational apps and games such as Nursery Rhymes: Volume 1, 2, and 3.

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