You're reading from Game Development with Unity for .NET Developers The ultimate guide to creating games with Unity and Microsoft Game Stack

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801078078

Length 584 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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3D Game Development

Author (1):

Jiadong Chen

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Basic Unity Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Hello Unity FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Scripting Concepts in Unity

4. Part 2: Using C# Scripts to Work with Unity's Built-In Modules

5. Chapter 3: Developing UI with the Unity UI System

6. Chapter 4: Creating Animations with the Unity Animation System

7. Chapter 5: Working with the Unity Physics System

8. Chapter 6: Integrating Audio and Video in a Unity Project

9. Part 3: Advanced Scripting in Unity

10. Chapter 7: Understanding the Mathematics of Computer Graphics in Unity

11. Chapter 8: The Scriptable Render Pipeline in Unity

12. Chapter 9: The Data-Oriented Technology Stack in Unity

13. Chapter 10: Serialization System and Assets Management in Unity and Azure

14. Chapter 11: Working with Microsoft Game Dev, Azure Cloud, PlayFab, and Unity

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Implementing a leaderboard using Azure PlayFab in Unity

Most games today use leaderboards, which indicate who is the best performer in a game and increase gamer engagement with a game. In this section, we will be exploring how to implement a leaderboard using Azure PlayFab in our Unity project.

Setting up a leaderboard in Azure PlayFab

In order to use Azure PlayFab's leaderboard feature, we first need to set up a leaderboard in the developer portal of Azure PlayFab:

Go back to the dashboard of the game title in Azure PlayFab. In the dashboard, you will find the Leaderboards option in the left column; click it to open the Leaderboards page:

Figure 11.29 – The Leaderboards option

As shown in the following figure, no leaderboard has been created yet, so click the New leaderboard button to create a new leaderboard in Azure PlayFab:

Figure 11.30 – Creating a new leaderboard