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Unity Game Development for Beginners

Chia Chang

Microsoft Corp.

Class taught at TSG of ROLF

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Agenda

• 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. Interaction

• Chapter 6. Collection, Inventory, and HUD

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Agenda

• Chapter 7. Instantiation and Rigidbodies

• Chapter 8. Particle System

• Chapter 9. Designing Menus

• Chapter 10. Animation Basic

• Chapter 11. Performance Tweaks and Finishing Touches

• Chapter 12. Building and Sharing

• Chapter 13. Testing and Further Study

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Resources

• Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials, Will Goldstone, Packt Publishing, 2011

• Unity Website (Document, tutorials, etc.)

– http://www.unity3d.com

– http://unity3d.com/learn/documentation

– http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/module

– http://unity3d.com/webplayer

– http://unity3d.com/showcase

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Resources

• Another million Unity developers in the house, “Just over a year ago there were a million Unity enthusiasts around the world. As of June 22 this year (2013), there are now 2 million of you. Holy cow!”

– http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/07/09/another-million-unity-developers-in-the-house/

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Chapter 1. Enter the Third Dimension

• Introducing Unity 3D

– Unity is a game engine, game authoring tool and supports many target platforms.

• Unity takes over the world

– iOS, Android, Windows, Xbox One, PS4, Wii U, Mac, etc.

– build small, bite-sized nuggets

– The key is to start with something you can finish

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Chapter 1. Enter the Third Dimension

• Why choose Unity?

– Large community: developers, help, doc, …

– Social proof: EA, major console manufactures, …

– Bang for the buck: free, pro

– Market success

– Customizability: Asset Store

– Languages supported: C#, UnityScript (JavaScript-like), and Boo (Python-like)

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Chapter 1. Enter the Third Dimension

• Unity

– Learning curve

– Cost

– Purity

• Browser-based 3D – welcome to the future

– Unity Web Player

– http://unity3d.com/webplayer

• Welcome to Unity 3D! (supports 2D too)

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Chapter 2. Prototyping and Scripting Basics

• TBS

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Chapter 3. Creating the Environment

• TBS

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Chapter 4. Player Characters and Further Scripting

• TBS

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Chapter 5. Interactions

• TBS

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Chapter 6. Collection, Inventory, and HUD

• TBS

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Chapter 7. Instantiation and Rigidbodies

• TBS

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Chapter 8. Particle Systems

• TBS

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Chapter 9. Designing Menus

• TBS

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Chapter 10. Animation Basics

• TBS

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Chapter 11. Performance Tweaks and Finishing Touches

• TBS

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Chapter 12. Building and Sharing

• TBS

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Chapter 13. Testing and Further Study

• TBS

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Thank You!

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Unity Game Development for Beginners

Chia Chang

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