Setting up the unity development environment
Understanding asset creation
The basics of movement and player control
Adding animations to our scene
Setting up player physics and colliders
Creating and applying gameplay systems
Creating hazards and crafting difficulty
Creating the menus and interface elements
Applying effects to the gameobjects
Organization and optimization
Appendix: JavaScript code samples.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction to Unity -- Downloading and Installing Unity -- Project Wizard -- Open Project Tab -- Create New Project Tab -- Packages -- Setting Our Project -- Project Structure -- Folder Organization -- File Naming Conventions -- Welcome Screen -- The Unity Interface -- Menus -- Toolbar -- Hierarchy -- Inspector -- Project Browser -- Scene View -- Game View -- Summary -- Exercises -- File Formats -- 3D Formats -- 2D Formats -- Importing Our Assets -- Importing from Inside Unity -- Importing Premade Assets from the File Browser -- Creating New Assets -- Importing Packages -- Unity Packages -- Custom Packages -- GameObjects -- Our First GameObject -- Creating a GameObject -- Components -- Creating a Component -- Assign a Component -- Prefabs -- Summary -- Exercises -- Working in 2D -- 2D Behaviors -- 2D Workspace -- Building Our Sprites -- Import Settings -- Pixels To Units -- Sprite Editor -- Sprite Packing -- Packing Tag -- Sprite Packer --
Contents note continued: Additional Sprite Packing Resources -- Summary -- Exercises -- Level Design 101 -- Setting the Scene -- Creating a Roadmap -- Adding Details -- Getting around Our Scene -- Scene Gizmo -- Perspective versus Isometric -- Camera Controls -- Manipulating Objects in Unity -- Transform Tools -- Z-Depth -- Settings -- Our First Level -- Positioning GameObjects Manually -- Using the Snap Settings to Position GameObjects -- Using Grid Snapping to Position GameObjects -- Efficient Level Design -- Adding Sorting Elements -- Continuing On -- Summary -- Exercises -- Coding in Unity3D -- The Three Languages -- Choosing the "Right" Language -- Making the Player Go -- Different Ways of Handling Movement -- Creating and Hooking Up Our PlayerController -- Setting Up a Basic Follow-Cam -- Introducing the Input Manager -- Error Handling and Debugging -- Handling Exceptions -- Try-Catch-Finally-Gracefully Handling Exceptions -- Debug.Log() Is Your Friend --
Contents note continued: Using Breakpoints to Halt Code Execution -- Summary -- Exercises -- Some Rules for Animation -- Animation Principles -- 2D versus 3D Animation -- Transform versus Frame Animation -- Scripted Animations -- Imported Animations -- Creating Animations -- Animation Component -- Animation Clip -- Animation Window -- Animation Events -- Animation States -- Animator Controller -- Animator Component -- Animator Window -- Editing the Player Controller -- Working with the State Machine -- Transitions -- Any State -- Blend Trees -- Summary -- Exercises -- Understanding Physics -- Mass -- Gravity -- Force -- 2D versus 3D -- 6DoF -- Z-Depth -- Rotations -- Physics 2D Settings -- General Physics Settings -- Layer Collision Matrix -- Rigidbodies -- Colliders -- Circle Collider -- Box Collider -- Edge Collider -- Polygon Collider -- Physics Materials -- Constraints -- Summary -- Exercise -- Trigger Volumes in Unity -- Trigger2D Functions --
Contents note continued: Adding Trigger Components to GameObjects -- Creating Checkpoints -- Scripting the Checkpoint Component -- Sizing and Placing Our Checkpoint Trigger -- Using Checkpoints with Respawn -- Preparing the Pit Trigger Volume -- Scripting the Pit Trigger Component -- Creating Collectibles -- Preparing the Floating Coin Prefabs for Collection -- Scripting the CoinPickup Component -- Preparing the Popped Coin Prefabs for Collection -- Preparing the Coin Box Prefabs -- Scripting the Coin Box Component -- Scripting the CoinSpawner Component -- Hooking It All Together -- A Touch of Polish -- Tracking the Player's Stats -- Summary -- Exercises -- Creating Your First Enemy -- Preparing the Slime Enemy GameObject -- Inheritance and the EnemyController Component -- Scripting the Enemy Slime Component -- Adding Walls to the Level -- Handling Collision with Other Slimes -- Adding Animation to the Slime -- Dealing Damage -- Scripting Damage into the PlayerStats Component --
Contents note continued: Creating the Damage Trigger -- Passing through the Player's Space -- Adding Damage to the Pits -- Adding Temporary Immunity Post-Damage -- Visually Representing Immunity, the Classical Way -- Handling Player Death -- Expanding on Platforming -- Preparing the Moving Platform Prefab -- Scripting the Flight Points Component -- Creating Your Second Enemy -- Preparing the Fly Enemy GameObject -- Adding Animation to the Fly -- Scripting the FlyController Component -- Adjusting the FlightPoints Script -- Maintaining Your Enemy Arrangements -- Preparing the Spawn Trigger -- Scripting the Spawn Trigger Component -- A Few Words on Challenge -- Summary -- Exercises -- UI Design -- Diegetic -- Non-diegetic -- Meta -- Spatial -- Unity Native GUI -- GUI Style -- GUI Skin -- GUI Controls -- Compound Controls -- GUI Class -- GUI Layouts -- GUI Text -- GUI Texture -- Creating a Splash Screen -- Title Screen -- Game Over Screen -- Game Win Screen -- HUD --
Contents note continued: Creating the Visuals -- Creating the Scripts -- Summary -- Exercise -- Introducing the Shuriken Particle System -- Terms to Know -- Creating a Particle System -- Modules and Properties of a Particle System -- Base Particle System Properties -- Other Particle System Modules -- Particle System Curves -- Adding Particle Effects to the Game -- Creating a Particle Effect for Coin Boxes -- Hooking Up the Coin Box Particle Effect -- Creating a Particle Effect for Damage -- Calling the Damage Particle System from Code -- Having a Little Particle Fun -- Unity's Audio System -- The Audio Source Component -- The Audio Listener Component -- The Audio Reverb Zone Component -- Adding Sound to the Player -- Adding Footsteps to the Walk Cycle -- Adding Sound to the Jump Event -- Adding Sound to the Damage Event -- Adding Sound to the Collectible System -- Applying Sound to the Coin Box -- Applying Sound to Coin Collection -- Applying Some Extra Polish --
Contents note continued: Cleaning Up the Camera -- Cleaning Up Player Death -- Summary -- Exercises -- Organizing Assets -- Organizing Our Prefabs -- Labels -- Hierarchy -- Organizing Scripts and Code -- Organizing the Script Files -- Organizing the Code -- Optimizations -- Prefabs -- Physics -- Draw Calls -- Triangle Count -- Batching -- Rendering Statistics Window -- Summary -- Exercises -- Tying the Levels Together -- Preparing the Victory Trigger Prefab -- Creating the Victory Trigger Script -- Retrieving the Coin Value -- Hooking Up the Intro Screens -- Win or Lose: Getting Back into the Action -- Recovering from Game Over -- Starting Over from a Win -- Building and Deploying the Game -- Web Player's Build Settings -- PC, Mac, and Linux Standalone Build Settings -- Cross-Platform Player Settings -- Web Player's Player Settings -- The Right Settings for the Job -- Building the Game for the Web Player -- Deploying the Game to the Web -- Post-Deployment -- Moving Forward --
Contents note continued: Polish Considerations
Creating Our Example Interface
The Event System and Event Triggers
