Create, customize, and optimize your own professional games from scratch with Unity 2022
Includes invitation to join the online Unity Game Development community to read the book alongside Unity developers/C# programmers and Nicolas Borromeo
Key Features
- Create the game prototype and learn the fundamentals of Unity editor to build scenes, objects and import objects
- Add interactivity, win/lose conditions, sound, graphics and artificial intelligence using C# and visual scripting
- Improve the game graphics, user interface, add visual effects and animations using Animator, Cinemachine, and Timeline
Book Description
Unity is a cross-platform game engine that provides you with powerful but simple-to-use features to solve the most common problems in Game Development, such as rendering, animation, physics, sound, and effects. You’ll learn to use these features to create simple but complete games (and all the nuances needed to handle Unity).
Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this book will teach you to use the Unity game engine, create C# and visual scripts, integrate graphics, sound, and animations, and manipulate physics to create interesting mechanics for your game. You’ll then code a simple AI agent to challenge the user and work with profiling tools to ensure code efficiency.
Finally, you'll work with Unity's AR tools to create AR experiences for 3D apps and games before publishing them to the world.
If you are interested in creating impressive, commercial-quality games that are playable on a variety of platforms, then you’ve come to the right place.
What you will learn
- Build a game prototype that includes gameplay, player and non-player characters, assets, animations, and more
- Set up and navigate the game engine to dive into the Unity Editor and discover unique and new features released in 2022
- Learn both C# and Visual Scripting to customize player movements, user interface, and game physics
- Apply shaders to improve your game graphics using Shader Graph and Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
- Create win-lose conditions of the game by using design patterns such as Singleton and Event Listeners
- Implement Game AI to build a fully functional enemy capable of detecting and attacking the player
- Debug, test, optimize, and create an executable version of the game to share it with your friends
Who this book is for
Both game and non-game developers who wish to migrate or start building 3D games in Unity will find this book useful. While you'll still able to follow along if you don't have any programming experience, knowing the fundamentals of C# programming will help you get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents
- Creating a Unity Project
- Editing Scenes and GameObjects
- Grayboxing with Terrain and ProBuilder
- Importing and Integrating Assets Packages
- Introduction to Unity Scripting with C# and Visual Scripting
- Movement and Spawning with Input System
- Physics Collisions and Health System
- Win and Lose Condition
- Implementing Game AI for Building Enemies
- Material and Effects with URP and Shader Graph
- Visual Effects with Particle Systems and Visual Effect Graph
- Lighting Fundamentals with URP
- Full-Screen Effects with Post-Processing Stack
- Sounds and Music Integration
- User Interface Design
- Creating a UI with the UI Toolkit
- Creating Animations with Animator, Cinemachine, and Timelines
- Generating an Executable (former Building the Project)
- Optimization with Profiler, Frame Debugger and Memory Profiler
- AR/VR Foundation
Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo works as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in the UK. He was a game development career coordinator at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) and has taught game development at many other Argentine universities, such as UTN, UAI, and USAL, and institutions such as Image Campus and DaVinci, since 2012. Nicolas has been a Unity Certified Instructor since 2019, teaching high-profile Unity clients all around the globe. He was an MMO client-side developer at Band of Coders in Argentina and has been a Unity freelance developer since 2012.
