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In introducing new students to video game development, there are two crucial components to consider: design and implementation. Unity 3D and PlayMaker Essentials: Game Development from Concept to Publishing provides theoretical background on topics such as characters, stories, level design, interface design, audio, game mechanics, and tools and skills needed.

Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, with topics building upon each other so that by the end of the book you will have looked into all the subjects relevant to creating your own game. The book transitions from discussion to demonstrations of how to implement techniques and concepts into practice by using Unity3D and PlayMaker. Download boxes are included throughout the book where you can get the version of the game project under discussion or other content to add to the project, as well as any supplementary video tutorials that have been developed.

Addressing both theoretical and practical aspects, Unity 3D and PlayMaker Essentials enables you to understand how to create a game by having you make a game. By gradually completing your own design document through the course of the book, you will become familiar with core design principles while learning the practical skills needed to bring your unique game to life.



Table of Contents

BACKGROUND

Introduction

Who Plays Games?

How Are Games Made?

Who Can Make Games?

What Types of Games Are There?

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Design Documents

Introduction to the Design Document

Sections of the Design Document

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Using Unity and PlayMaker

Installing Unity

Unity's Interface

Using Unity

Installing PlayMaker

PlayMaker's Interface

State Machines

Using PlayMaker

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

BUILDING BLOCKS

Characters

The Purpose of Characters

Do Games Need Characters?

Traditional Character Types

Game Character Types

Character Design

Character Asset Design

Importing Assets in Unity

Character Control Systems

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Non-Player Characters

What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Some Different Types of Artificial Intelligence

Selecting an Artificial Intelligence System

Designing a Threshold Guardian

Implementing the Threshold Guardian

Prefabs

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Story

What Is a Story?

Does My Game Need a Story?

How to Tell a Story

The Building Blocks of a Story

Aristotle and the Greeks

The Return of Joseph Campbell

Story Design

Putting the Story into the Game

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Environment

Environments for Stories

Environments for Games

Creating the Terrain in Unity

Dressing a Terrain with Standard Content

Adding Imported Assets

Lighting the Environment

Boundaries

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Mechanics

What Are Game Mechanics?

Where Do Mechanics Come From?

Designing Our Mechanics

Implementing Our Mechanics

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

BRINGING IT TOGETHER

Audio

How Audio Is Used in Games

Finding Audio

Introduction to Audacity

Audio in Unity

Using PlayMaker to Play Audio

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

The User Interface

The Uses of User Interfaces

User Interface Design

The User Interface System of Unity

Updating the User Interface with PlayMaker

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document

Testing, Tweaking, and Publishing

What Is Testing?

Fixing and Tweaking

Building the Game

Summary

Vocabulary

Review Quiz

Exercises

Design Document