Learn All the Design & Development Skills You Need to Make Great Games
with Unity, the World's Most Popular Professional Game Engine
If you want to design and develop games, there is no substitute for
strong, hands-on experience with modern techniques and tools. That is
exactly what this book provides. Leading instructor and indie game
developer Jeremy Gibson Bond covers all three disciplines that you need
to succeed: game design theory, rapid iterative prototyping, and
practical programming.
Building on two previous best-sellers, this Third Edition contains
hundreds of improvements across more than 400 new pages, all designed to
make it even easier to understand and more useful in modern game
development.
The five game tutorials have been thoroughly revised and expanded to
cover even more best practices for prototyping and development, and all
examples now use Unity 2020.3 LTS (Long Term Support), a stable and
feature-rich standard for years to come. The new content includes
greatly enhanced tutorials, a chapter on Unity's high-performance
Data-Oriented Tech Stack (DOTS), new Coding Challenges to help you
transition to making your own games from scratch, and tips on next steps
after you have finished the book. The revamped website includes playable
versions of all example games, plus an exciting new tool that provides
immediate feedback on potential errors in your own code.
Part I: Game Design and Paper Prototyping
- Use the Layered Tetrad to understand and design powerful interactive
experiences.
- Explore the core game design practices of paper prototyping, testing,
and iteration.
- Learn effective strategies for staying on track and on schedule.
- Get tips for finding a rewarding job in today's industry.
Part II: Programming C# in Unity
- Learn C# from the basics through class inheritance, object-oriented
programming, and data-oriented design.
Part III: Game Prototype Tutorials
- Implement games across five genres: arcade, casual physics, space
shooter, solitaire card game, and top-down adventure game. Each game
is designed to be easily extensible into your own projects.Take three
games from prototype to "first playable" through new extended tutorial
chapters that refi ne the games further than in previous editions of
the book.
NEW! Part IV: Next Steps
- Tackle the new, growing library of Coding Challenges, a proven method
for transitioning from tutorials to creating your own projects from
scratch.Get ideas and resources for new projects to tackle on your
own.
