Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development. Enter the world of 2D Game development with Unity 5.x

Francesco Sapio

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 with the embedded tools to develop 2D games. In learning about these, along with accurate explanations and practical examples, you will design, develop, 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 a full understanding on 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, each of these parts are centered on a common point of discussion with other learners just like you. Therefore, by sharing your ideas with other people you will not only develop your skills but you will also build a network.

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence with Unreal Engine. Everything you want to know about Game AI using Blueprints or C++

Francesco Sapio

Learning how to apply artificial intelligence ( AI ) is crucial and can take the fun factor to the next level, whether you're developing a traditional, educational, or any other kind of game. If you want to use AI to extend the life of your games and make them challenging and more interesting, this book is for you.The book starts by breaking down AI into simple concepts to get a fundamental understanding of it. Using a variety of examples, you will work through actual implementations designed to highlight key concepts and features related to game AI in UE4. You will learn to work through the built-in AI framework in order to build believable characters for every game genre (including RPG, Strategic, Platform, FPS, Simulation, Arcade, and Educational). You will learn to configure the Navigation, Environmental Querying, and Perception systems for your AI agents and couple these with Behavior Trees, all accompanied with practical examples. You will also explore how the engine handles dynamic crowds. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to profile, visualize, and debug your AI systems to correct the AI logic and increase performance.By the end of the book, your AI knowledge of the built-in AI system in Unreal will be deep and comprehensive, allowing you to build powerful AI agents within your projects.

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints. Explore the features of Unity 5 for 2D game development by building three amazing game projects

Abdelrahman Elsayegh, Francesco Sapio

Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leveragethese new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book.Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development.Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming.Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.

Unity. Przepisy na interfejs gry

Francesco Sapio

Ponad 60 przepisów pomocnych w budowaniu kunsztownych i profesjonalnych interfejsów, dzięki którym gry mogą stać się atrakcyjniejsze. Umiejętność projektowania i implementacji interfejsów użytkownika jest szczególnie ważna dla programistów gier. Aby gra mogła porwać i wciągnąć gracza po uszy, jej interfejs musi być zarówno funkcjonalny, jak i przyjemny dla oka. Idealnym narzędziem do tworzenia gier jest Unity: program, który pozwala na konstruowanie doskonałych, dynamicznych interfejsów. Szczególnie atrakcyjne jest łączenie ze sobą elementów graficznych i kodu tworzonego w języku C# — w ten sposób Unity pozwala na osiąganie imponujących wyników. Niniejsza książka jest przeznaczona dla osób, które chcą wykorzystać silnik Unity do tworzenia gier wideo. Przedstawiono tu sposoby implementacji systemów interfejsu użytkownika i łączenia ich z pozostałymi składnikami gry. Przygotowano ją jako zbiór przepisów na wykonanie określonych zadań, jednak najpierw omówiono tu zagadnienia podstawowe, a dopiero potem te nieco trudniejsze. Pozwala to na stopniowe doskonalenie umiejętności programistycznych. Podczas lektury książki warto zwrócić uwagę na odwołania do relacji między graczem a interfejsem gry — niezwykle ważny czynnik dla projektanta. W książce omówiono: najważniejsze zagadnienia, o których trzeba pamiętać podczas tworzenia gier implementację liczników i pasków zdrowia, a także prezentacji czasu w grze tworzenie interaktywnych kontrolek, takich jak panele i suwaki tworzenie interaktywnych składników interfejsów i animowanie ich implementację zaawansowanych elementów HUD implementację interfejsów użytkownika w 3D oraz stosowanie minimap Francesco Sapio jest inżynierem informatyki i automatyki, utalentowanym projektantem gier komputerowych i doświadczonym użytkownikiem programów graficznych. Jest wybitnym znawcą oprogramowania Unity3D. Jest także muzykiem, ponadto przez kilka lat pracował jako aktor i tancerz. Sapio uwielbia matematykę, filozofię, logikę i rozwiązywanie zagadek, ale jego największą pasją jest projektowanie i programowanie gier. Lubisz grać? Spróbuj zaprojektować i napisać swoją własną grę!

Unity UI Cookbook. Over 60 recipes to help you create professional and exquisite UIs to make your games more immersive

Francesco Sapio

With the increasing interest in game development, it's essential to design and implement a UI that reflects the game settings and shows the right information to the player. The Unity system is used to create complex and aesthetically pleasing user interfaces in order to give a professional look and feel to a game. Although the new Unity UI system is powerful and quite easy to use, by integrating it with C# scripts, it's possible to realize the potential of this system and bring an impressive UI to games.This guide is an invaluable collection of recipes if you are planning to use Unity to develop a game. Starting with the basic concepts of the UI components, we’ll take you all the way through to creating complex interfaces by including animations and dynamics elements.Based on real-world problems, these recipes will start by showing you how to make common UI elements such as counters and healthbars. You will then get a walkthrough of how to manage time using timers, and will learn how to format them. You will move on to decorating and animating the UI elements to vivify them and give them a professional touch. Furthermore, you will be guided into the 3D UI world and into HUD scripting. Finally, you will discover how to implement complex minimaps in the interface.