Build a tower defense game and earn delectable C# treats by baking cupcakes and fighting fearsome sweet-toothed pandas
About This Book
- Build a complete and exciting 2D Tower Defense game from scratch.
- Understand and learn to perform each phase of the game development pipeline
- Work through homework and exercises to improve your skills and take them to the next level
Who This Book Is For
If you're looking forward to get started with 2D game development, whether you're a newcomer to this world, or progressed from 3D games or other game engines, this book is for you. Although there are many references to other resources throughout the book, it is assumed that you have a general understanding of C# and its syntax and structure.
What You Will Learn
- Import and set up assets for 2D game development
- Design and implement dynamic and responsive User Interfaces
- Create and handle complex animation systems
- Unlock the full potential of the physics engine
- Implement Artificial Intelligence algorithms to give intelligence to your NPCs
- Script gameplay and bring your ideas to life
In Detail
Want to get started in the world of 2D game development with Unity? This book will take your hand and guide you through this amazing journey to let you know exactly what you need to build the games you want to build, without sacrificing quality. You will build a solid understanding of Unity 5.x, by focusing on the embedded tools needed to develop 2D games. In learning about these, along with accurate explanations and practical examples, you will design, develop, and learn how to market and publish a delectable Tower Defense game about cupcakes versus pandas.
Each chapter in this book is structured to give you full understanding of a specific aspect of the workflow pipeline. Each of these aspects are essential for developing games in Unity. In a step-by-step approach, you will learn about each of the following phases: Game Design, Asset Importing, Scripting, User Interfaces, Animations, Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Gameplay Programming, Polishing and Improving, Marketing, Publishing and much more.
This book provides you with exercises and homework at the end of each chapter so that you can level up your skills as a Unity game developer. In addition to this, each of these parts is centered on a common point of discussion with other learners just like you. Therefore, by sharing your ideas with other people, you'll not only develop your skills but also build up your network.
Table of Contents
- A Flat World in Unity
- Baking Cupcake Towers
- Communicating with the Player - the User Interface
- No Longer Alone - Sweet-Toothed Pandas Strike
- The Secret Ingredient is a Dash of Physics
- Through a Sea of Sprinkles - Navigation in Artificial Intelligence
- Trading Cupcakes & the Ultimate Battle for the Cake - Gameplay Programming
- What is Beyond the Cake?
Francesco Sapio obtained his computer science and controls engineering degree from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, with a couple of semesters in advance, graduating summa cum laude; he is currently studying there for a master's of science and engineering degree in artificial intelligence and robotics. He is a Unity 3D and Unreal expert, skilled game designer, and experienced user of major graphics programs. He developed Game@School (Sapienza University of Rome), an educational game for high-school students to learn concepts of physics, and the Sticker Book series (Dataware Games), a cross-platform series of games for kids. In addition, he worked as consultant for the (successfully funded by Kickstarter) game Prosperity - Italy 1434 (Entertainment Game Apps, Inc) and for the open online collaborative ideation system titled Innovoice (Sapienza University of Rome). Moreover, he has been involved in different research projects such as Belief-Driven Pathfinding (Sapienza University of Rome), which is a new technique of path finding in video games that was presented as a paper at the DiGRA-FDG Conference 2016; and perfekt.ID (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), which included developing a recommendation system for games. Francesco is an active writer on the topic of game development. Recently, he authored the book Unity UI Cookbook, Packt Publishing. It teaches readers how to develop exciting and practical user interfaces for games within Unity, and he wrote a short e-guide, What do you need to know about Unity, Packt Publishing. In addition, he co-authored the book Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints, Packt Publishing, which has also been transformed in the video course Unity 5.x Game Development Projects, Pack Publishing. He has also been a reviewer for the following books: Game Physics Cookbook, Packt Publishing, Unity 5.x by Example, Packt Publishing, and Unity Game Development
