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This book starts you off on the right foot, emphasizing small, simple game ideas and playable projects that you can actually finish. The complexity of the games increases gradually as we progress through the chapters. The chosen examples help you learn a wide variety of game development techniques. With this understanding of Unity 3D and bite-sized bits of programming, you can make your own mark on the game industry by finishing fun, simple games.
This book shows you how to build crucial game elements that you can reuse and re-skin in many different games, using the phenomenal (and free!) Unity 3D game engine. It initiates you into indie game culture by teaching you how to make your own small, simple games using Unity3D and some gentle, easy-to-understand code. It will help you turn a rudimentary keep-up game into a madcap race through hospital hallways to rush a still-beating heart to the transplant ward, program a complete 2D game using Unity's User Interface controls, put a dramatic love story spin on a simple catch game, and turn that around into a classic space shooter with spectacular explosions and "pew" sounds! By the time you're finished, you'll have learned to develop a number of important pieces to create your own games that focus in on that small, singular piece of joy that makes games fun.
This book shoots straight for the heart of fun, simple game design and keeps shooting until you have all the pieces you need to assemble your own great games.
About the Author
Ryan Henson Creighton
Ryan is the founder of Untold Entertainment Inc., a boutique game development studio in the heart of downtown Toronto. Ryan got his start at a Canadian television broadcaster creating small, simple games for kids and preschoolers. By the time he was through, he had built over fifty games for a wide range of clients including McDonalds, Hasbro, Lego, Proctor and Gamble, Nickelodeon, and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. These games ran the gamut from simple slider puzzles, memory games, and contest entry mechanics to tile-based graphic adventure games and massively multiplayer virtual worlds. Ryan often leveraged his theatre background to perform on-camera in promotional spots for Microsoft and Nintendo. He spent a number of years moonlighting as a video game journalist under the cartoonish moniker "MrSock".
Ryan founded Untold Entertainment Inc. in 2007 and has continued to develop great kids' content with broadcasters and independent television producers to help extend their on-air brands online. He packs the company's popular blog with tutorials, designer diaries, and insights into the world of independent game development, employing his signature biting wit and ludicrous photo captions.
Through Untold Entertainment, Ryan is developing a number of original properties, which include: Interrupting Cow Trivia, an online multiplayer trivia game; Spellirium, a word puzzle/adventure game hybrid; UGAGS, the Untold Graphic Adventure Game System; and Kahoots, a fun crime-themed puzzle game modeled entirely in clay.
Ryan lives and bikes around downtown Toronto with his wife Cheryl, and his two tiny daughters Cassandra and Isabel.
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The author seems to be a little misguided in certain places, such as his repeated insistence that one should multiply by 0.x instead of divide by x as 'computers do it faster', which underestimates (or ignores) what modern compilers offer.
Would recommend picking it up, still, as there's useful bits to be gleaned from it - especially if you're interested in 2D as chapters 5&6 deal with creating a 2D game solely using Unity's GUI components (a good starting point before leaping into orthographic projection).
"Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials" by Will Goldstone seems to be a much more polished and thorough introduction, written and reviewed by Unity heavyweights. People only getting one book should get that one instead.
The writing style is overly enthusiastic, verbose and generally hard to get on with; and has a tendency to talk too much about how great game ideas are etc. The projects within are very unappealing, and each chapter jumps from one project to another. This means, the projects in early chapters stop, then continued later on in the book. Personally, I found this frustrating, and very hard to follow - difficult to maintain interest.
To be fair, there are one or two areas that are useful as reference, but, overall there are better books available.
His advice on Game Design alone is worth the price. Definitely recommend for beginners and novices alike. I've been scripting games for years and I picked up some very useful practices from this book.
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