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Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023

You're reading from Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023 A comprehensive guide to creating your own strategy game from scratch using C#

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613245

Length 548 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Bruno Cicanci

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Foundations of RTS Games

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Real-Time Strategy Games FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity and the Dragoncraft Project

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Our Level Design

5. Chapter 4: Creating the User Interface and HUD

6. Part 2: The Combat Units

7. Chapter 5: Spawning an Army of Units

8. Chapter 6: Commanding an Army of Units

9. Chapter 7: Attacking and Defending Units

10. Chapter 8: Implementing the Pathfinder

11. Part 3: The Battlefield

12. Chapter 9: Adding Enemies

13. Chapter 10: Creating an AI to Attack the Player

14. Chapter 11: Adding Enemies to the Map

15. Part 4: The Gameplay

16. Chapter 12: Balancing the Game’s Difficulty

17. Chapter 13: Producing and Gathering Resources

18. Chapter 14: Crafting Buildings and Defense Towers

19. Chapter 15: Tracking Progression and Objectives

20. Chapter 16: Exporting and Expanding Your Game

21. Index

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Further reading

The following links are recommended material to learn more about the Unity Test Framework and TDD, as well as to refresh your knowledge of the new C# features that we used in this chapter:

Test-driven development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development
Getting started with Unity Test Framework: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.test-framework@1.3/manual/getting-started.html
Testing Test-Driven Development with the Unity Test Runner: https://blog.unity.com/technology/testing-test-driven-development-with-the-unity-test-runner
Assert: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Assertions.Assert.html
Tuple types: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/value-tuples

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Authors (1)

Bruno Cicanci

Bruno Cicanci

Bruno Cicanci is a software engineer and game developer with professional experience on different technologies and platforms. Since 2009, Bruno helped to develop and publish many games, mainly using Unity for mobile devices. He writes about game development on his personal blog, which led him to present many talks at universities and events. Bruno holds a Computer Science BS. Degree and a specialization and Game Production and Programming. In the last decade, he worked at prestigious game studios such as Glu Mobile, Electronic Arts, and Aquiris. He is currently developing games and reusable technologies at Ubisoft. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bruno currently resides in London, UK with his wife and two adorable cats.

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