Learn Unity for Android Game Development

1. Front Matter

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2. Why This Is an Incredibly Exciting Time to Develop Games for Android

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3. Introducing Unity and Getting Set Up

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   Pages 17-37

4. Finding Your Way Around Unity

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   Pages 39-58

5. Adding Physics and Getting Started With Coding

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   Pages 59-74

6. Filling the World with Prefabs, Effectors, and Collectibles

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   Pages 75-98

7. Adding Animations, Effects, and a HUD

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   Pages 99-120

8. Making an Android App

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   Pages 121-136

9. Expanding the Game World with Checkpoints, Levels, and Save Files

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   Pages 137-157

10. Adding More Game Elements: Springs, Moving Platforms, AI, and More

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    Pages 159-183

11. Making the Game Fun and Optimized

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    Pages 185-206

12. An Introduction to 3D Game Development and Virtual Reality

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13. How to Publish and Promote Your Android App

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    Pages 229-243

14. Back Matter

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Get a thorough and practical introduction to Unity development for Android devices with no previous experience with game development needed. In this book, you'll go through every step from downloading and installing Unity and the Android SDK, to creating fully functional games. The bulk of Learn Unity for Android Game Development is a simple project to create a 2D platform game complete with touchscreen controls, physics, enemies, respawning, collectibles and more.


The book closes with a brief introduction to creating 3D games, virtual reality games for the Gear VR, and other more advanced applications. It also provides some guidance on publishing and marketing, as well as thinking about game design and mechanics. Resources including sprites and scripts are provided in the code download.




What You Will Learn

• Install Unity with the Android SDK
  
• Understand and use scripts, prefabs and Android Studio
  
• Design a great game
  
• Build a game app
  
• Add a bit of polish
  
• Deploy for various Android devices
  
• Build and deploy for 3D games, virtual reality and more
  
• Promote your game and make money
  

Who This Book Is For


This book requires no previous experience with programming or game development of any kind.  Prior experience with the Android ecosystem recommended.  

• Unity
• Unity3D
• Android
• Game
• Development
• programming

• Guildford, United Kingdom

  Adam Sinicki

Adam Sinicki has a lot of experience developing for Android having created the successful Multiscreen Multitasking and collaborated with YouTube and Coldfusion on the Voxis Launcher. Multiscreen Multitasking was pre-installed software on over 60,000 handsets from Celkon and Intex. Adam currently writes for the news site Android Authority where he has previously tackled this subject.

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