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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development

You're reading from Mastering Unity 2D Game Development Using Unity 5 to develop a retro RPG

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463456

Length 506 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

2D Game Development

Authors (2):

Simon Jackson

Dr. Ashley Godbold

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Building Your Project and Character

3. Getting Animated

4. The Town View

5. Working with Unitys UI System

6. NPCs and Interactions

7. The World Map

8. Encountering Enemies and Running Away

9. Getting Ready to Fight

10. The Battle Begins

11. Shopping for Items

12. Sound and Music

13. Putting a Bow on It

14. Deployment and Beyond

Distributing to mobile

The three major mobile platforms are iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Each platform has its strengths and weaknesses in terms of performance, distribution, and marketing.

Before you begin publishing, make sure you have all UI elements scaling correctly at various resolutions. Using a canvas with the anchor and pivot points properly placed helps with this. Android has many more screen resolutions than any other mobile platform and it is impossible for you to test on all resolutions, so making sure everything scales appropriately is essential.

To publish on iOS, you final game must be built on a Mac. To publish on Windows Phone, you final game must be built in Windows 10. To publish on Android, your final game can be built using either a Mac or Windows operating system. So, to build to all three platforms you need both a Windows 10 machine and a Mac with a current OS.

Each of the mobile platforms require you to sign up for their storefront; none of them allow you to do...

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Authors (2)

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Dr. Ashley Godbold

Ashley Godbold is a programmer, game designer, artist, mathematician, and teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Master of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Science in Game Art and Design, and a Doctor of Computer Science in Emerging Media where her dissertation research focused on educational video game design. She also authored Mastering Unity 2D Game Development: Second Edition (Packt Publishing) and the first edition of Mastering UI Development with Unity. In her free time, she enjoys playing video games and watching anime with her husband, daughter, three cats, and dog.

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Jackson

Jackson

Simon Jackson is a long-time soft ware engineer and architect with many years of Unity game development experience, as well as an author of several Unity game development titles. He loves to both create Unity projects and lend a hand to help educate others, whether it's via a blog, vlog, user group, or major speaking event. He currently works at a mixed-reality research lab called xRealityLabs, building the future of digital solutions for the construction and medical industries. His primary focus at the moment is on the Reality Toolkit project, which is aimed at building a cross-platform mixed-reality framework to enable both VR and AR developers to build efficient solutions in Unity.

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