Unity Book Roundup

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity:The World’s Most Widely Used Multiplatform Game Engine

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Exploring the Genre
• Chapter 2: Unity UI Basics – Getting Started
• Chapter 3: Scripting: Getting Your Feet Wet
• Chapter 4: Terrain Generation: Creating a Test Environment
• Chapter 5: Navigation and Functionality
• Chapter 6: Cursor Control
• Chapter 7: Action Objects
• Chapter 8: Managing State
• Chapter 9: Object Metadata
• Chapter 10: Message Text
• Chapter 11: Inventory Logic
• Chapter 12: Managing the Inventory
• Chapter 13: Finishing the Basic Functionality
• Chapter 14: Getting Down to Game
• Chapter 15: A Maze and the Final Level
• Chapter 16: Menus and Levels
• Chapter 17: Beyond the Basics
• Appendix A: SSE Shader Graphs
• Appendix B: Key Codes
• Appendix C: Final Sequence

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.

The first part of the book explains the logic involved in game interaction, and soon has you creating game assets through simple examples that you can build on and gradually expand.

In the second part, you yourself will build the foundations of a point-and-click style first-person adventure game—including reusable state management scripts, load/save functionality, a robust inventory system, and a bonus feature: a dynamically configured maze and mini-map.

With the help of the provided 2D and 3D content, you’ll learn to evaluate and deal with challenges in bite-sized pieces as the project progresses, gaining valuable problem-solving skills in interactive design.

By the end of the book, you will be able to actively use the Unity 3D game engine, having learned the necessary workflows to utilize your own assets. You will also have an assortment of reusable scripts and art assets with which to build future games.

Creating 3D Game Art for the iPhone with Unity: Featuring modo and Blender pipelines

• Chapter 1: Getting to Know the iDevice Hardware and Unity iOS
• Chapter 2: Creating Game Objects using modo
• Chapter 3: Understanding Texture and UV Maps
• Chapter 4: Creating Game Objects using modo ( yes, it’s repeated )
• Chapter 5: Animation Using Blender
• Chapter 6: Animation Using Blender ( yes, repeated again )
• Chapter 7: Animation Using Blender ( yes, repeated again x2 )
• Chapter 8: Creating Lightmaps using Beast
• Chapter 9: Working with Game Assets in Unity iOS
• Creating Tater’s Training Trash Yard

Follow the creation of “Tater,” a character from the author’s personal game project “Dead Bang,” as he’s used to explain vital aspects of game development and content creation for the iOS platform. Creating 3D Game Art for the iPhone focuses on the key principles of game design and development by covering in-depth, the iDevice hardware in conjunction with Unity iOS and how it relates to creating optimized game assets for the iDevices.

Featuring Luxology’s artist-friendly modo, and Blender, the free open-source 3D app, along side Unity iOS, optimize your game assets for the latest iDevices including iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and the iPod Touch. Learn to model characters and environment assets, texture, animate skinned characters and apply advanced lightmapping techniques using Beast in Unity iOS.

In a clear, motivating, and entertaining style, Wes McDermott offers captivating 3D imagery, real-world observation, and valuable tips and tricks all in one place – this book is an invaluable resource for any digital artist working to create games for the iPhone and iPad using Unity iOS.

Creating Games with Unity and Maya: How to Develop Fun and Marketable 3D Games

• Chapter 1 – Game Production Process
• Chapter 2 – Asset Creation: Maya Scenography Modeling
• Chapter 3 – Asset Creation: Maya Scenography UV Mapping
• Chapter 4 – Asset Creation: Maya Scenography Texturing
• Chapter 5 – Asset Creation: Unity Scenography Importing
• Chapter 6 – Asset Creation: Unity Scenography Creation Tools
• Chapter 7 – Lighting, Texturing and Baking
• Chapter 8 – Asset Creation: Maya Character Creations
• Chapter 9 – Asset Creation: Maya Character UV and Texture
• Chapter 10 – Asset Creation: Maya Rigging, Skinning and Animation & Unity Importing and Animation
• Chapter 11- Unity Sound
• Chapter 12 – GUI
• Chapter 13 – Unity Script: Syntax
• Chapter 14 – Unity Script: Triggers
• Chapter 15 – Unity Script: Inputs, Raycasting and Manipulating
• Chapter 16 – Unity Script: Prefabs and Instantiation
• Chapter 17 – Unity GUI and Scripting
• Chapter 18 – Unity Distribution: Builds
• Appendix A – Setting Projects with Maya
• Appendix B – Emmisive Material Light Baking
• Appendix C – Preparing Character Style Sheets
• Appendix D – Unity Asset Server

Mastering Unity is absolutely essential in an increasingly competitive games market where agility is expected, yet until now practical tutorials were nearly impossible to find.

Creating Games with Unity and Maya gives you an end-to-end solution for Unity game development with Maya. Written by a twelve-year veteran of the 3D animation and games industry and professor of 3D animation, this book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing an entire game from scratch-including coding, art, production, and deployment.

This accessible guide provides a “non-programmer” entry point to the world of game creation. Aspiring developers with little or no coding experience will learn character development in Maya, scripts, GUI interface, and first- and third-person interactions.

–Unity is HOT! It’s the #1 game engine out there, and it’s taken the game world by storm. Documentation is hard to find. Focal to the rescue. Learn Unity from the ground up. Build a game with no previous scripting knowledge, and make a game that’s fun.

–Authoritative – Author, Adam Watkins, is a 12 year veteran and author of several books and over 100 articles on 3D Animation. His students are the winners of multiple national and international animation awards and festivals. With this experience comes great insight into the best ways to learn 3D art and gaming concepts.

–Accessible to All Unity users (artists and programmers) – the author comes from an art background. He animated for many years before working in games. This provides a “non-programmer” entry point to the world of game creation.

–Complete – this volume provides instruction from game inception to completion and delivery. The 3D creation and export begins, but applied functionality and delivery complete the book. In the course of the book, the reader will create effective and efficient 3D assets from scratch using Maya (including characters). Then, use these assets to create a functioning game complete with scripts, GUI interfaces, and first and third person interactions.

–Companion website includes: original versions of the images, all completed files from the tutorials, important links, and all code from the book.

Developpez des jeux 3D avec Unity

• Bienvenue dans la troisième dimension
• Environnements
• Personnages jouables
• Interactions
• Eléments préfabriqués, collection et HUD
• Instanciation et corps rigides
• Systèmes de particules
• Conception de menus
• Dernières retouches
• Compilation et partage
• Procédures de tests et lectures complémentaires

Ce livre vous explique tout ce qu’il faut savoir pour prendre en main Unity et être en mesure de développer ses propres jeux. Il propose un ensemble d’exemples faciles qui vous conduiront à la réalisation d’un jeu de tir à la première personne (FPS) en 3D sur une île – un environnement avec lequel le joueur pourra interagir. Partant des concepts communs aux jeux et à la production 3D, vous verrez comment utiliser Unity pour créer un personnage jouable et comment réaliser des énigmes que le joueur devra résoudre pour terminer la partie.

À la fin de ce livre, vous disposerez d’un jeu en 3D entièrement fonctionnel et de toutes les compétences requises pour en poursuivre le développement et proposer à l’utilisateur final, le joueur, la meilleure expérience vidéo-ludique possible.

Game Character Creation with Blender and Unity

• Chapter 1: Basic Game Art Concepts
• Chapter 2: Blender Basics for Game Characters
• Chapter 3: Modeling the Character
• Chapter 4: Prepping for Zombie Details with UV Unwrapping
• Chapter 5: Sculpting for Normal Maps
• Chapter 6: Digital Painting Color Maps
• Chapter 7: Rigging for Realistic Movement
• Chapter 8: Animating the Zombie
• Chapter 9: Unity Engine Basics
• Chapter 10: Implementing your Zombie in a Unity Game

• Game creation is a popular and productive pursuit for both hobbyists and serious developers; this guide brings together two effective tools to simplify and enhance the process
• Artists who are familiar with Blender or other 3D software but who lack experience with game development workflow will find this book fills important gaps in their knowledge
• Provides a complete tutorial on developing a game character, including modeling, UV unwrapping, sculpting, baking displacements, texturing, rigging, animation, and export
• Emphasizes low polygon modeling for game engines and shows how to bring the finished character into the Unity game engine

Whether you’re interested in a new hobby or eager to enter the field of professional game development, this book offers valuable guidance to increase your skills.

Game Development with Unity

• Preface
• Introduction
• An Overview of the Unity Engine
• Your First Game: Where to start?
• Setting the Stage with Terrain
• Building Your Environment: Importing Basic Custom Assets
• Creating Characters
• Scripting in Unity
• Writing the Character and State Controller Scripts
• Hooking Up the Animations
• Using Triggers and Creating Environment Interactions
• Building Adversaries and AI
• Designing the Game’s GUI
• Creating Lighting and Shadows
• Using Particle Systems
• Adding Audio and Music
• Basic Unity Debugging and Optimization
• Creating the final build
• Appendix A: Shortcuts and Hotkeys
• Appendix B: Common Classes
• Appendix C: Going Forward
• Appendix D: Resources and References
• Appendix E: Glossary

Holistic Game Development with Unity: An All-in-One Guide to Implementing Game Mechanics, Art, Design and Programming

• Chapter 1 The Art of Programming Mechanics
• Real-World Mechanics
• Animation Mechanics
• Game Rules and Mechanics
• Character Mechanics
• Player Mechanics
• Environmental Mechanics
• Mechanics for External Forces

Holistic Game Development with Unity is an authoritative guide to creating games in Unity. Taking you through game design, programming, and art, Penny de Byl uses a holistic approach to equip you with the multidisciplinary skills you need for the independent games industry. With this book, you will master essential digital art and design principles while learning the programming skills necessary to build interactivity into your games. The tutorials will put these skills into action. The companion website offers: source code for completed projects from the book, art assets, instructional videos, a forum, author blog and lesson plans and challenge questions for professors.

Examines art and programming in unison-the only one-stop shop for individual developers and small teams looking to tackle both tasks.

Examines art and programming in unison-the only one-stop shop for individual developers and small teams looking to tackle both tasks. Teaches, using proven, step-by-step tutorials, how to design and structure and entire game in Unity with art assets created in Blender. Presents a gentle introduction to essential 2D and 3D mathematical and physics concepts. Provides a portfolio of reusable game mechanics. Companion website offers source code for completed projects featured in the book, art assets, instructional videos, author blog, and discussion forum, as well as lesson plans and challenge questions for professors.

iPad Multiplayer Magic

• Brief History of Gaming and What You Need to Know
• Game Design Principles
• Your Grimoire to the iPad
• Unity Quick-Start Spellbook
• Crafting a Unity Game
• Crafting a Multiplayer Online Game with Unity
• Mixing the Brew Together
• What’s Next
• Appendix: Online Resources
• Glossary

Note: Not exclusively about Unity

iPhone 3D Game Programming All In One

• Chapter 1. Ready, Fire, Aim!
• Chapter 2. Apple’s Ring, Apple’s Rope
• Chapter 3. Unity Fundamentals
• Chapter 4. Creating the Perfect Concept
• Chapter 5. The Strengths and Weaknesses of the iPhone’s Unique Input Interface
• Chapter 6. Concept Art
• Chapter 7. Prototyping
• Chapter 8. Play Testing and Iterating
• Chapter 9. Production Art
• Chapter 10. Tying Up Loose Ends
• Chapter 11. Shipping and Handling Extra

NOTE: Not exclusively about Unity

Professional Unity and C#: Multi-Platform 3D Game Development

• Not yet released, coming July 17/2012
• UPDATE 9/14/2012: This book’s status is currently unknown, it is still on Amazon CA and UK, but has been pulled from .COM.  Will update when I have further details, or will remove if this book is no more.

By the end of the book, you will be encouraged to create a game and upload it to a site where other users can view and comment, cultivating the learning process through dialog and interaction.

• Explains how to maximize advanced capabilities of Unity3D for programming games
• Highlights techniques for creating shaders, which manipulate the way graphics are rendered by the game engine
• Extends the reach of the book by discussing how Unity3D is an ideal way to break into the social web market
• Demystifies Unity3D co-routines and the yield statement in a clear and concise manner

Whether you use this book as a tutorial or reference manual for working with Unity3D and C#, you will most certainly find it to be invaluable.

Unity 3 Blueprints – A Practical Guide to Indie Games Development

• Chapter 1 – Setting Up Our Development Environment
• Chapter 2 – Heiro Match – Part 1
• Chapter 3 – Heiro Match – Part 2
• Chapter 4 – Ace Invaders – Part 1
• Chapter 5 – Ace Invaders – Part 2
• Chapter 6 – Temple Defense – Part 1
• Chapter 7 – Temple Defense – Part 2
• Chapter 8 – Furry Hurry – Part 1
• Chapter 9 – Furry Hurry – Part 2
• Chapter 10 – Moving to the next level

Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot

• Chapter 1 – Develop a Sprite and Platform Game
• Chapter 2 – Create a Menu for an RPG Game – Add Power ups, Weapons and Armor
• Chapter 3 – Model and Shade your Hero/Heroine
• Chapter 4 – Add Character Control and Animation to our Hero/Heroine
• Chapter 5 – Build a Rocket Launcher!
• Chapter 6 – Forge a Destructible and Interactive Virtual World
• Chapter 7 – Lt the World See the Carnage! Save, Load and Post High Scores
• Appendix A. Important Functions
• Appendix B. Coroutines and Yield
• Appendix C. Major Differences between C# and Unity Javascript
• Appendix D. Shaders and Cg/HLSL Programming

Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials

• Preface
• Chapter 1 – Enter the Third Dimension
• Chapter 2 – Prototyping and Scripting Basics
• Chapter 3 – Creating the Environment
• Chapter 4 – Player Characters and Further Scripting
• Chapter 5 – Interactions
• Chapter 6 – Collection, Inventory and HUD
• Chapter 7 – Instantiation and Rigidbodies
• Chapter 8 – Particle Systems
• Chapter 9 – Designing Menus
• Chapter 10 – Animation Basics
• Chapter 11 – Performance Tweaks and Finishing Touches
• Chapter 12 – Building and Sharing
• Chapter 13 – Testing and Further Study
• Glossary

Build fully functional, professional 3D games with realistic environments, sound, dynamic effects, and more!

• Kick start your game development, and build ready-to-play 3D games with ease.
• Understand key concepts in game design including scripting, physics, instantiation, particle effects, and more.
• Test & optimize your game to perfection with essential tips-and-tricks.
• Written in clear, plain English, this book takes you from a simple prototype through to a complete 3D game with concepts you’ll reuse throughout your new career as a game developer.
• Learn game development in Unity version 3 and above, and learn scripting in either C# or JavaScript

In Detail

Game Engines such as Unity are the power-tools behind the games we know and love. Unity is one of the most widely-used and best loved packages for game development and is used by everyone, from hobbyists to large studios, to create games and interactive experiences for the web, desktop, mobile, and console. With Unity’s intuitive, easy to learn toolset and this book – it’s never been easier to become a game developer.

Taking a practical approach, this book will introduce you to the concepts of developing 3D games, before getting to grips with development in Unity itself – prototyping a simple scenario, and then creating a larger game. From creating 3D worlds to scripting and creating game mechanics you will learn everything you’ll need to get started with game development.

This book is designed to cover a set of easy-to-follow examples, which culminate in the production of a First Person 3D game, complete with an interactive island environment. All of the concepts taught in this book are applicable to other types of game, however, by introducing common concepts of game and 3D production, you’ll explore Unity to make a character interact with the game world, and build puzzles for the player to solve, in order to complete the game. At the end of the book, you will have a fully working 3D game and all the skills required to extend the game further, giving your end-user, the player, the best experience possible. Soon you will be creating your own 3D games with ease!

Unity 3.x Game Development by Example

• Preface
• Chapter 1 – That’s One Fancy Hammer!
• Chapter 2 – Let’s Start with the Sky
• Chapter 3 – Game 1: Ticker Taker
• Chapter 4 – Code Comfort
• Chapter 5 – Game #2: Robot Repair
• Chapter 6 – Game #2: Robot Repair Part 2
• Chapter 7 – Don’t Be a Clock Blocker
• Chapter 8 – Ticker Taker
• Chapter 9 – Game #3: The Break-Up
• Chapter 10 – Game #3: The Break-Up Part 2
• Chapter 11 – Game #4: Shoot the Moon
• Chapter 12 – Action!
• References

Unity iOS Essentials

• Preface
• Chapter 1 – Planning Ahead for a Unity3D iOS Game
• Chapter 2 – iOS Performance Guide
• Chapter 3 – Advanced Game Concepts
• Chapter 4 – Flyby Background
• Chapter 5 – Scalable Sliding GUIs
• Chapter 6 – Preferences and Game State
• Chapter 7 – The Need for Speed
• Chapter 8 – Making it real
• Chapter 9 – Putting it all Together

• Learn key strategies and follow practical guidelines for creating Unity 3D games for iOS devices.
• Learn how to plan your game levels to optimize performance on iOS devices using advanced game concepts.
• Full of tips, scripts, shaders, and complete Unity 3D projects to guide you through game creation on iOS from start to finish.

In Detail

Unity is the perfect tool for creating games for a number of platforms. Whether it’s for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or some combination of the three, this book takes a practical approach which maximizes performance while maintaining maximum compatibility across the entire mobile device line up.

Unity iOS Essentials takes you through all aspects of Unity 3D game development for iOS. Mobile game development means thinking about mobile performance, multiple device screen resolutions, deploying a single application to multiple devices, understanding .NET integration, taking advantage of advanced lighting and culling systems, and integrating a mobile game with a server back end. This comprehensive book on developing Unity 3D games for iOS covers it all and demonstrates the concepts using practical tips, scripts, shaders, and projects.

Learn how to plan for supporting multiple iOS devices before you start writing your first script. Consider performance and advanced game topics that will speed up your game development while solving real world problems. Add GUIs, use sophisticated .NET programming concepts, and examine scripts and shaders, interact with servers, and interact with projects that deal with real issues. Unity iOS Essentials provides you with a fully illustrated and fully commented guide for realising your game idea using advanced concepts that work on the iOS family of mobile devices.

Unity iOS Game Development

• Chapter 1 – What is Unity and why should I care?
• Chapter 2 – Getting Up and Running
• Chapter 3 – Hello World
• Chapter 4 – Unity Concept
• Chapter 5 – Scripting: Whose line is it anyway?
• Chapter 6 – Our Game: Battle Cry!
• Chapter 7 – Input: Let’s Get Moving!
• Chapter 8 – Multimedia
• Chapter 9 – User Interface
• Chapter 10 – Gameplay Scripting
• Chapter 11 – Debugging and Optimization
• Chapter 12 – Commercialization: Make ‘fat loot’ from your Creation
• Appendix A. Pop quiz – Answers

• Dive straight into game development with no previous Unity or iOS experience
• Work through the entire lifecycle of developing games for iOS
• Add multiplayer, input controls, debugging, in app and micro payments to your game
• Implement the different business models that will enable you to make money on iOS games

In Detail

Would you like to create money making games for iOS? If so, Unity iOS Game Development Beginners Guideis for you. It will guide you through the entire creative process of designing a game through to making money from it.

This book will teach you the secrets of building and monetizing games for the iOS platform using the latest version of Unity. The book is linear and progressive so every chapter builds upon the knowledge of the last. You will learn Unity and the iOS basics necessary to get started. You will design a game for the iOS. You will build that game feature by feature. Finally you will publish your game and add the features that will enable your game to generate revenue.

You have never built anything using Unity or iOS so we will begin with the basics. We will then move onto the basic features of a game: scenes, AI, characters, accelerometer, and input methods. Once you have mastered this we will begin the creation of our game – a 3rd person perspective dungeon crawler game inspired by the arcade game called Gauntlet. You will bring AAA quality to the game by adding co-op multiplayer so that your friends can join in and participate in the game. You will also add occlusion culling and beastmap lighting. Next you will integrate the game with some 3rd party services for advertisements, micro transactions, and in app purchasing. You will also integrate with Game Center. Finally you will publish your game for the entire world to see.

Unity 3.x Scripting

• Not available yet

• Make your characters interact with buttons and program triggered action sequences
• Create custom characters and code dynamic objects and players’ interaction with them
• Synchronize movement of character and environmental objects
• Add and control animations to new and existing characters
• Written in simple and step-by-step format with real life examples, this book is the only one in the market to focus on Unity Scripting

What you will learn from this book

• Use available scripts that readers can use to create default character controller
• Attach default character controller scripts to an existing game object
• Set-up your own camera and character controller rigs through code
• Code dynamic and static objects like bio gun, ammo, health, character stat augmentation, treasure chests and make your character interact with them
• Create character item slots along with inventories, where players will be able to drag and drop different item icons in the inventory slots
• Attach existing animation scripts to characters and objects and create new ones
• Assign and equip selected items on a player or object, making them active and useable like adding fire functionality to a bio gun
• Create and maintain scores to control character objectives and save game data
• Setup a system to control transition between scenes and transferring objects from one scene to another along with instantiation for characters
• Deal with 2D and 3D parallax backgrounds
• Create an audio game controller to fix sound overlapping and create background audio stems
• Basics of enemy AI, such as path-finding and creating distinct enemy behavior and their awareness

Game Development for iOS with Unity3D

• Designing Your Game
• Getting Set Up for iOS and Development
• Setting Up Unity and Your Mac for iOS Development
• Basics of the Unity Editor
• 3D Graphics for Unity iOS Games
• Making a Game for Unity iOS #1 – The Ball Game
• Making a Game for Unity iOS #2 – Happy Sparrows Game
• Debugging and Script Optimization
• Optimizing Assets for File Size and Performance
• Publishing to the App Store
• Thinking Outside the Box

Features

• Presents practical, proven techniques for developing games for mobile platforms
• Includes information on how to get your app into the Apple app store
• Provides two sample iOs games to explore and adapt
• Uses the Unity game engine

Summary

This hands-on guide delivers production-proven techniques and valuable tips and tricks needed to plan, build, test, and launch full 3D games for the iPhone, iPod, or iPad all the way to the Apple app store. It walks you through all the necessary procedures and features two iOS-ready games to explore, adapt, and play. The text presents all of the information necessary for beginning and intermediate users to build and publish iOS games using Unity Beginner. Topics covered include game design, 3D graphics, debugging, script optimization, and optimizing assets for file size and performance.

Essential 3D Game Programming

• Rough form only ( there is something very odd about this book, has been since it was initially announced! ):
• Introduction
• Essential 3D Review
• Review C# Language
• Unity Components
• Common Mathematics and Physics used in 3D
• Essential 3D Paradigms
• Artifical Intelligence
• 2D Look in a 3D Engine

• • A guide for programmers on how to create and implement a full 3D game – with hands-on exercises on complex 3D game programming
  • Covers all essential elements: planning,  models, textures and animation, scenes and levels, audio, user interface, physics and simple AI (state machines), and other fun topics, like frame-distributed recursion.
  • Includes example Unity Projects and Scenes with C# (script files) using Unity’s built-in Modo IDE.

3D Games with Unity and Monetization Leadbolt

• Not available – e-book only.

Beginning 3D Game Development with Unity 4

• Not available yet.

• The first part of the book explains the logic involved in game interaction, and soon has you creating game assets through simple examples that you can build upon and gradually expand.
• In the second part, you’ll build the foundations of a point-and-click style first-person adventure game—including reusable state management scripts, load/save functionality, a robust inventory system, and a bonus feature: a dynamically configured maze and mini-map.
• With the help of the provided 2D and 3D content, you’ll learn to evaluate and deal with challenges in bite-sized pieces as the project progresses, gaining valuable problem-solving skills in interactive design.

By the end of the book, you will be able to actively use the Unity 3D game engine, having learned the necessary workflows to utilize your own assets. You will also have an assortment of reusable scripts and art assets with which to build future games.

Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development

• A Unity Tour
• Making a Scene
• Making it Move
• Let’s Bowl! Physics and Controls
• Let’s play! Scripting the Game
• The game GUI
• Using unity iOS
• Building for Real: Device testing and App Submission
• Optimize for Quality
• Third-Party Plugins
• Third-Party Packages
• Game Center
• Submitting the App
• iAds, Tracking Revenue and Promoting Your App

You’ll also learn how to incorporate the latest Game Center improvements in iOS 6 into your game, how to make sure your game gets into the App Store, and even how to promote your app and track revenue.

If you have a great 3D game idea, and you want to make it a reality in the App Store, then Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Developmenthas exactly what you need.

What you’ll learn

How to build, debug and test a Unity iOS game
How to include iAds
How to integrate Game Center leaderboards and achievements
How to process touch, accelerometer and gyroscope input
How to profile and optimize performance
How to promote your app and track its revenue

Who this book is for

iOS developers interested in using Unity and Unity developers who want to customize their games for iOS devices.

Unity 4.x Cookbook

• Not yet available

• A wide range of topics are covered, ranging in complexity, offering something for every Unity 4 game developer
• Every recipe provides step-by-step instructions, followed by an explanation of how it all works, and alternative approaches or refinements
• Book developed with the latest version of Unity (4.x)

What you will learn from this book

• Enhance your character`s animation in real time using Unity`s new Mecanim system
• Measure and control time, including pausing the game, displaying clocks and countdown timers, and even implementing “bullet time” effects
• Work with cameras, images, and the Shuriken practical system, to create mini-maps, control zooming, and depth of field, and switch between cameras
• Define materials for reflections, transparency, specular and self-illumination of materials, and cloudy outdoor effects
• Use artificial intelligence techniques to make non-player character objects seek, follow, flee each other, or follow a waypoint sequence, and even flock together like a herd of animals
• Make your game communicate with Microsoft Kinect cameras, for control of game characters, and even to record your own motion capture
• Improve GUIS with real-time radars, custom mouse cursors, analogue and digital clocks, color section dialogs, mouse over material highlighting, graphical power-bars, and a flexible inventory class
• Save and load text, XML, or media assets from local or remote sources, and communicate with websites and their databases to create online scoreboards