Unity in Action: Multiplatform Game Development in C# - Softcover

Hocking, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1617299332 ISBN 13: 9781617299339

Publisher: Manning Publications, 2022

Synopsis

Create your first 2D, 3D, and AR/VR games with the awesome Unity game platform.  With this hands-on beginner's guide, you'll start building games fast!

In Unity in Action, Third Edition, you will learn how to:

• Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
• Build 3D first-person shooters and third-person action games
• Construct 2D card games and side-scrolling platformers
• Script enemies with AI
• Improve game graphics by importing models and images
• Design an intuitive user interface for your games
• Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
• Connect your games to the internet for online play
• Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web

Thousands of new game developers have chosen Joe Hocking's Unity in Action as their first step toward Unity mastery. This fully updated third edition comes packed with fully refreshed graphics, Unity's latest features, and coverage of the augmented and virtual reality toolkits. Using your existing coding skills, you'll write custom code instead of just clicking together premade scripts. You'll master the Unity toolset from the ground up, adding the skills you need to go from application coder to game developer.

Build your next game without sweating the low-level details. The Unity game engine handles the heavy lifting, so you can focus on game play, graphics, and user experience. With support for C#, a huge ecosystem of production-quality prebuilt assets, and a strong dev community, Unity will get your game idea off the drawing board and onto the screen! You can even use Unity for more than game development, with new tools for VR and augmented reality that are perfect for developing useful apps.

About this title

About the Author

Joe Hocking is a software engineer and Unity expert specializing in interactive media development.

From the Back Cover

Unity in Action, Third Edition teaches you to write and deploy games with Unity. You'll work through interesting and engaging examples of 2D, 3D,and AR/VR games to get hands-on experience of Unity's intuitive workflow tools and state-of-the-art rendering engine.

Joe Hocking's expert instruction has given thousands of aspiring game developers a clear starting point for their journey into Unity. Starting with the initial groundwork of a new game development project, you'll quickly progress to creating scripts and building easy-to-read UIs. Now for the first time, this fully updated third edition presents new coverage of Unity's XR toolkit and shows you how you can start building with virtual and augmented reality.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617299332
• ISBN 13: 9781617299339
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 414