Unity in Action, Third Edition: Multiplatform game development in C#

This hands-on beginners guide gets you building games fast, all with the awesome Unity engine! You\'ll speed past the basics and use your existing coding skills to create 2D, 3D, and AR/VR games.

In Unity in Action, Third Edition, you will learn how to:

    Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
    Build 3D first-person shooters and third-person action games
    Construct 2D card games and side-scrolling platformers
    Script enemies with AI
    Improve game graphics by importing models and images
    Design an intuitive user interface for your games
    Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
    Connect your games to the internet for online play
    Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web

Thousands of new game developers have chosen Joe Hocking\'s Unity in Action as their first step toward Unity mastery. Starting with the initial groundwork of a new game development project, you\'ll quickly start writing custom code instead of clicking together premade scripts. This fully updated third edition comes packed with fully refreshed graphics, Unity\'s latest features, and coverage of augmented and virtual reality toolkits. You\'ll master the Unity toolset from the ground up, learning the skills to go from application coder to game developer.

About the technology
Writing games is rewarding and funand with Unity, it\'s easy to get started! Unity handles the heavy lifting, so you can focus on game play, graphics, and user experience. C# support and a huge ecosystem of prebuilt components help even first-time developers go from the drawing board to the screen fast.

About the book
Unity in Action, Third Edition teaches you to create games with the Unity game platform. It\'s many 2D, 3D, and AR/VR game examples give you hands-on experience with Unity\'s workflow tools and state-of-the-art rendering engine. This fully updated third edition presents new coverage of Unity\'s XR toolkit and shows you how you can start building with virtual and augmented reality.

Foreword by Jesse Schell.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the reader
For programmers who know any object-oriented programming language. Examples are in C#, but prior knowledge of that language is not required.

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Joe Hocking

I currently work for Qualcomm as a senior staff engineer using Unity. I wrote the first edition of U ...

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"What I love most about Unity in Action is the 'action' part. Joe Hocking wastes none of your time and gets you coding fast!"
Jesse Schell, author of The Art of Game Design and CEO of Shell Games

"The book you should buy if you want to get a thorough understanding of how to use Unity. Highly recommended!"
Nick Keers, cinch

"A practical and didactic book that will take you by the hand and teach you how to create amazing games."
Alain Lompo, ISO-Gruppe

"An all-around comprehensive resource to get you started with Unity."
Krishna Chaitanya Anipindi, Hexagon

From the Author

I've been using Unity for over a decade, but I started programming games quite some time before that. At first, I worked for Synapse on web games, but we eventually moved over to Unity for developing mobile games. And then we came full circle because Unity enabled us to deploy our mobile games to the web as well, all from one codebase!

In many ways, what I've written here is the book I wish had existed back when I was first learning Unity. I'm targeting people who already know how to program but who are newcomers to Unity, and possibly new to game development in general. The choice of projects reflects my experience of gaining skills and confidence by doing a variety of projects in rapid succession.

In learning to develop games using Unity, you're setting out on an exciting adventure. For me, learning how to develop games meant putting up with a lot of hassle. You, on the other hand, have the advantage of a single coherent resource to learn from: this book!

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