Mobile Game Development with Unity: Build Once, Deploy Anywhere

Jon Manning

ISBN 10: 1491944749 / ISBN 13: 9781491944745

Published by O?Reilly Media, 2017

About this Item

Learn how to build games that work on several mobile devices, including phones and tablets powered by iOS, Android, and Blackberry. This practical book shows you how to get started with the Unity game development ecosystem for creating beautiful, interactive 3D and 2D content on any mobile platform. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: UMK; UMS. Category: (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mobile Game Development with Unity: Build Once, Deploy Anywhere
• Publisher: O?Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491944749
• ISBN 13: 9781491944745
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Do you want to build mobile games, but lack game development experience? No problem. This practical guide shows you how to create beautiful, interactive content for iOS and Android devices with the Unity game engine.

Authors Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison (iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook) provide a top-to-bottom overview of Unity's features with specific, project-oriented guidance on how to use them in real game situations. Over the course of this book, you'll learn hands-on how to build 2D and 3D games from scratch that will hook and delight players. If you have basic programming skills, you're ready to get started.

• Explore the basics of Unity, and learn how to structure games, graphics, scripting, sounds, physics, and particle systems
• Use 2D graphics and physics features to build a side-scrolling action game
• Create a 3D space combat simulator with projectile shooting and respawning objects, and learn how to manage the appearance of 3D models
• Dive into Unity's advanced features, such as precomputed lighting, shading, customizing the editor, and deployment

About the Author

Jon Manning is a world renown iOS development trainer and writer, game designer and mobile software engineering wizard. Paris Buttfield-Addison is a mobile app engineer, game designer and researcher with a passion for making technology simpler and as engaging as possible. He has written two books on game development and currently spends his time designing mobile products for millions upon millions of users while drinking too much coffee. Paris has coded for everything from Qt to 6502 assembly to iOS and thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea. He claims he will soon have a PhD.