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OUYA Game Development by Example. An all-inclusive, fun guide to making professional 3D games for the OUYA console

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The OUYA console and development kit gives you the power to publish video games for the players, creating a console marketplace of the gamers, for the gamers, and by the gamers. Using the OUYA developer kit and the Unity3D game engine, even beginners with a captivating game idea can bring it to life with a hint of imagination.
OUYA Game Development by Example uses a series of feature-based, step-by-step tutorials that teach beginners how to integrate essential elements into a game engine and then combine them to form a polished gaming experience.

OUYA Game Development by Example Beginners Guide
- Table of Contents
- OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
  - Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
    - Why subscribe?
    - Free access for Packt account holders
- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Time for action heading
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz heading
    - Have a go hero heading
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Downloading the example code
  - Downloading the color images of this book
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. Experiencing the OUYA
  - Setting up the console
  - Networking
  - Displaying games
  - Time for action installing your first game
    - What just happened?
  - Playing the OUYA
  - Touch controls
  - Summary
- 2. Installing Unity and the OUYA ODK
  - Installing the game engine
  - Time for action setting up Unity
    - What just happened?
  - Downloading and configuring additional packages
  - Time for action downloading Java, the Android SDK, and the ODK
    - What just happened?
  - Modifying the PATH variable
  - Time for action editing PATH on Mac OS
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action editing PATH on Windows
    - What just happened?
    - Installing packages with the Android SDK
  - Time for action installing Android packages
    - What just happened?
  - Configuring the USB connection
  - Time for action configuring the USB driver on Windows
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action exporting OUYA packages from Unity
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action importing packages into a new workspace
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz small parts of a whole
  - Summary
- 3. Diving into Development
  - Creating a 3D text prototype
  - Time for action manipulating the scene
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating and scripting 3D text
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero flexing your new muscle
  - Creating a custom function
  - Time for action writing a function
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action capturing data with return values
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action controlling functions with parameters
    - What just happened?
  - Making our scripts interactive
  - Time for action adding keyboard interaction to scripts
    - What just happened?
  - Deploying our code on OUYA
  - Time for action running your first test on OUYA
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz hello world
  - Summary
- 4. Moving Your Player with Controller Input
  - Creating an interactive marble prototype
  - Time for action setting the scene
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action importing a Unity input script
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action turning input into movement
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action movement with the OUYA SDK
    - What just happened?
  - Adding additional functionality to our marble
  - Time for action adding button features
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action improving the camera
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero creating your own camera
  - Completing our game
  - Time for action adding a goal zone
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz coming full circle
  - Summary
- 5. Enhancing Your Game with Touch Dynamics
  - Using the touchpad to interact with buttons
    - Creating the cannonball prototype
  - Time for action creating a cannon prefab
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating an interactive button
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action adding an impulse force to a rigidbody component
    - What just happened?
  - Using cursor data to add touch input to games
  - Time for action reading mouse position in Unity
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating a vector from cursor movement
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero capturing touch input over multiple frames
  - Incorporating touch data into your mechanics
  - Time for action hiding the cursor on the screen
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating a target for the cannon
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz touching the sky
  - Summary
- 6. Saving Data to Create Longer Games
  - Creating collectibles to save
  - Time for action creating a basic collectible
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero make your prototype stand out with materials
  - Time for action scripting the collectible
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action accessing the scripts on other objects
    - What just happened?
  - Saving data with the Unity engine
  - Time for action saving data with PlayerPrefs
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action setting up a GUI Text object
    - What just happened?
    - Using save data in multiple scenes
  - Time for action counting cannonballs
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action checking high scores in a new scene
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action displaying high score values
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero adding a reset button to your high score list
  - Saving data with the OUYA API
    - Pop quiz saving (and loading) the day
  - Summary
- 7. Expanding Your Gameplay with In-app Purchases
  - The different kinds of in-app purchases
    - Entitlements
    - Consumables
  - Setting up a product on the OUYA developer portal
  - Time for action preparing your game for in-app purchasing
    - What just happened?
  - Coding in-app purchasing in your game
  - Time for action creating a purchase screen
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating your first purchase function
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero initializing product variables dynamically
  - Time for action saving and loading successful purchases
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action reflecting unlocked functionality in games
    - What just happened?
  - Adding polish with Unity Asset Store packages
  - Time for action adding explosions to your cannonballs
    - What just happened?
  - Pricing your in-app purchases
    - Setting the price of your full game
  - Picking a monetization model
    - Have a go hero tying it all together with more products
    - Pop quiz talking shop
  - Summary
- 8. Polishing and Prepping Your Game for Deployment
  - Meeting the OUYA content guidelines
  - Time for action containing game elements within the safe zone
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating icons for your game
    - What just happened?
    - Following the Unity Submission Checklist
  - Polishing Unity projects in depth
    - Creating your game flow
  - Time for action creating a title screen
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating a loss screen
    - What just happened?
    - Creating a tutorial
  - Time for action creating a tutorial scene
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action linking your tutorial to your game
    - What just happened?
  - Creating a following camera in Unity
  - Time for action creating a following third-person camera
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero add rotation controls to your camera
  - Time for action adding audio to your game
    - What just happened?
  - Packaging your project for submission
  - Time for action creating your game on the developer portal
    - What just happened?
    - Pop quiz the end of the beginning
  - Summary
- 9. Blazing Your Own Development Trail
  - Expanding your skills with advanced challenges
    - Working with shaders in depth
  - Time for action creating a custom font with a text shader
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action creating a fire effect with a particle shader
    - What just happened?
    - Advanced data saving
  - Time for action saving the player's position
    - What just happened?
    - Making a more polished GUI
  - Time for action creating a reusable GUI Skin
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action making an automatically scaling GUI texture
    - What just happened?
    - Lighting your scenes perfectly
  - Time for action adding realism to your scene with lightmapping
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero experiment with Light Probes in Unity Pro
    - Making your world feel real with Physics Materials
  - Time for action applying an ice Physics Material
    - What just happened?
    - Have a go hero playing with other Physics Materials
    - Have a go hero making Physics Materials react realistically
  - Popular game development methodologies
    - The Waterfall model
    - The Agile methodology
    - The Scrum methodology
  - Basic design patterns for larger code projects
    - The Singleton pattern
    - The Factory pattern
    - The Command pattern
    - Have a go hero implement one of the preceding patterns
  - Getting started with version control
  - Time for action creating a BitBucket repository
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action preparing Unity for version control
    - What just happened?
  - Time for action making your first commit and push
    - What just happened?
  - Finding your own answers to questions online
    - Stack Overflow
    - OUYA Forums
    - Unity Forums
    - Pop quiz leaving the nest
  - Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
  - Chapter 2, Installing Unity and the OUYA ODK
    - Pop quiz small parts of a whole
  - Chapter 3, Diving into Development
    - Pop quiz hello world
  - Chapter 4, Moving Your Player with Controller Input
    - Pop quiz coming full circle
  - Chapter 5, Enhancing Your Game with Touch Dynamics
    - Pop quiz touching the sky
  - Chapter 6, Saving Data to Create Longer Games
    - Pop quiz saving (and loading) the day
  - Chapter 7, Expanding Your Gameplay with In-app Purchases
    - Pop quiz talking shop
  - Chapter 8, Polishing and Prepping Your Game for Deployment
    - Pop quiz the end of the beginning
  - Chapter 9, Blazing Your Own Development Trail
    - Pop quiz leaving the nest
- Index

Title: OUYA Game Development by Example. An all-inclusive, fun guide to making professional 3D games for the OUYA console
Author: John Donovan
Original title: OUYA Game Development by Example. An all-inclusive, fun guide to making professional 3D games for the OUYA console
ISBN: 9781849697231, 9781849697231
Date of issue: 2014-05-20
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3c62
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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