The Unity project
Instead of giving us developers a unitypackage
file to download, the Ouya team give us a Unity project and we need to build it ourselves. The benefit of this is that the Ouya team can update the files on GitHub and, if we have cloned the repository, we'll be able to pull an update easily and rebuild the packages. The following steps will guide you through creating the Ouya unitypackage
file that, after importing, will enable us to configure the Ouya project settings and allow us to deploy to Ouya itself:
Open Unity and navigate to File | Open Project | Open Other. You'll need to navigate to where you unzipped the Ouya Unity files and press Select Folder. Depending on how up-to-date the files are you may get a message from Unity about upgrading the project, if it asks for an upgrade, then let it proceed.
To generate the
unitypackage
file, we will need to configure the Ouya project settings which on importing will allow us to deploy to Ouya itself. Click on OUYA | Export Core...