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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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