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Unity 4.x Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Unity 4.x Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide A seat-of-your-pants manual for building fun, groovy little games quickly with Unity 4.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695268
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. That's One Fancy Hammer! FREE CHAPTER 2. Let's Start with the Sky 3. Game #1 – Ticker Taker 4. Code Comfort 5. Game #2 – Robot Repair 6. Game #2 – Robot Repair Part 2 7. Don't Be a Clock Blocker 8. Hearty Har Har 9. Game #3 – The Break-Up 10. Game #3 – The Break-Up Part 2 11. Game #4 – Shoot the Moon 12. Game #5 – Kisses 'n' Hugs 13. AI Programming and World Domination 14. Action! Appendix Index

Time for action – make some noise


So far, the games we've made have been completely silent. I count this as a terrible tragedy; audio in a game can account for half of the player's emotional experience. In the case of games like Rock Band, there would be no game without audio (hilarious little plastic instruments notwithstanding). Audio is so important to games that even crummy little low-rent sounds effects (like the ones we're about to add to this game!) can increase the game's awesomeness by a factor of WOW... to the power of GEE GOLLY—something like that. It's all very scientific.

Let's rig up our Bomb and Stein Prefabs so that they can emit sounds.

  1. In the Project panel, click on the Bomb Prefab.

  2. In the menu, navigate to Component | Audio | Audio Source to add the Audio Source component.

  3. Repeat those steps to add an Audio Source component to your Stein Prefab.

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Now hear this

You may have noticed that Unity also offers an Audio Listener component. What's the deal? Well, in the case of a...

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