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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849695268

Length 572 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Ryan Henson Creighton

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Free development tools

There are a number of great development tools that integrate well with Unity 3D, like 3D Studio Max and Maya. However, many of these programs can cost thousands of dollars (like 3D Studio Max and Maya). Here are some links to free tools that may help you to develop your games:

Graphics

Blender: A 3D modeling and animation program with its own built-in game engine. Blender has a steep, often infuriating learning curve, but if you buy a book you'll be fine:

http://www.blender.org/download/

GIMP: A 2D photo manipulation program, somewhat like Photoshop:

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Paint.NET: Another 2D photo manipulation program, with perhaps a simpler interface than GIMP:

http://www.getpaint.net/

Sound

BFXR: For lo-fi sound effects creation. The sounds in this book were created with SFXR, its precursor:

http://www.bfxr.net

Audacity: For audio editing and processing:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Authors (1)

Ryan Henson Creighton

Ryan Henson Creighton

Ryan is the founder of Untold Entertainment Inc., a boutique game development studio in the heart of downtown Toronto. Ryan got his start at a Canadian television broadcaster creating small, simple games for kids and preschoolers. By the time he was through, he had built over fifty games for a wide range of clients including McDonalds, Hasbro, Lego, Proctor and Gamble, Nickelodeon, and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. These games ran the gamut from simple slider puzzles, memory games, and contest entry mechanics to tile-based graphic adventure games and massively multiplayer virtual worlds. Ryan often leveraged his theatre background to perform on-camera in promotional spots for Microsoft and Nintendo. He spent a number of years moonlighting as a video game journalist under the cartoonish moniker "MrSock".Ryan founded Untold Entertainment Inc. in 2007 and has continued to develop great kids' content with broadcasters and independent television producers to help extend their on-air brands online. He packs the company's popular blog with tutorials, designer diaries, and insights into the world of independent game development, employing his signature biting wit and ludicrous photo captions.Through Untold Entertainment, Ryan is developing a number of original properties, which include: Interrupting Cow Trivia, an online multiplayer trivia game; Spellirium, a word puzzle/adventure game hybrid; UGAGS, the Untold Graphic Adventure Game System; and Kahoots, a fun crime-themed puzzle game modeled entirely in clay. Ryan lives and bikes around downtown Toronto with his wife Cheryl, and his two tiny daughters Cassandra and Isabel.

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