Sue Blackman – författare

This book introduces key game production concepts in an artist-friendly way, and rapidly teaches the basic scripting skills you''ll need with Unity. It goes on to show how you, as an independent game artist, can create casual interactive adventure games in the style of Telltale''s Tales of Monkey Island, while also giving you a firm foundation in game logic and design.

This book introduces key game production concepts in an artist-friendly way, and rapidly teaches the basic scripting skills you''ll need with Unity. It goes on to show how you, as an independent game artist, can create interactive games, ideal in scope for today''s casual and mobile markets, while also giving you a firm foundation in game logic and design.

Create a game for the Windows Phone market with a heavy emphasis placed on optimization and good design decisions. While doing so, you will be introduced to key Unity concepts and functionality, weigh the pros and cons of various possibilities, and gain a good working knowledge of scripting in the Unity environment using both JavaScript and C#.

Finally, you will bring it all together to create a multi-level game as you learn how to incorporate mobile specific functionality, test on a Windows Phone device, and others for Windows 10 and ultimately, publish your game to the Windows App Store. 

What You Will Learn

Game developers, hobbyists and game dev students who are new to Unity or Windows Mobile game development or both. JavaScript and C# experience are helpful, but C# experience is not required.

Unity for Absolute Beginners walks you through the fundamentals of creating a small third-person shooter game with Unity. Using the free version of Unity to begin your game development career, you''ll learn how to import, evaluate and manage your game resources to create awesome third-person shooters. This book assumes that you have little or no experience with game development, scripting, or 3D assets, and that you''re eager to start creating games as quickly as possible, while learning Unity in a fun and interactive environment.

With Unity for Absolute Beginners you''ll become familiar with the Unity editor, key concepts and functionality. You''ll learn how to import, evaluate and manage resources. You''ll explore C# scripting in Unity, and learn how to use the Unity API. Using the provided art assets, you will learn the fundamentals of good game design and iterative refinement as you take your game from a simple prototype to a quirky, but challenging variationof the ever-popular first-person shooter. As can be expected, there will be plenty of destruction, special effects and mayhem along the way.

Unity for Absolute Beginners assumes that you have little or no experience with game development, scripting, or 3D assets, but are eager to get up-to-speed as quickly as possible while learning Unity in a fun and interactive environment.