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Build engaging, fully functional, multiplayer games with Unity engine
Overview
- Create a variety of multiplayer games and apps in the Unity 4 game engine, still maintaining compatibility with Unity 3.
- Employ the most popular networking middleware options for Unity games
- Packed with ideas, inspiration, and advice for your own game design and development
In Detail
Unity is a game development engine that is fully integrated with a complete set of intuitive tools and rapid workflows used to create interactive 3D content. Multiplayer games have long been a staple of video games, and online multiplayer games have seen an explosion in popularity in recent years. Unity provides a unique platform for independent developers to create the most in-demand multiplayer experiences, from relaxing social MMOs to adrenaline-pumping competitive shooters.
A practical guide to writing a variety of online multiplayer games with the Unity game engine, using a multitude of networking middleware from player-hosted games to standalone dedicated servers to cloud multiplayer technology. You can create a wide variety of online games with the Unity 4 as well as Unity 3 Engine.
You will learn all the skills needed to make any multiplayer game you can think of using this practical guide. We break down complex multiplayer games into basic components, for different kinds of games, whether they be large multi-user environments or small 8-player action games. You will get started by learning networking technologies for a variety of situations with a Pong game, and also host a game server and learn to connect to it.Then, we will show you how to structure your game logic to work in a multiplayer environment. We will cover how to implement client-side game logic for player-hosted games and server-side game logic for MMO-style games, as well as how to deal with network latency, unreliability, and security.
You will then gain an understanding of the Photon Server while creating a star collector game; and later, the Player.IO by creating a multiplayer RTS prototype game. You will also learn using PubNub with Unity by creating a chatbox application. Unity Multiplayer Games will help you learn how to use the most popular networking middleware available for Unity, from peer-oriented setups to dedicated server technology.
What you will learn from this book
- Use Unity networking for in-game player-hosted servers
- Create cloud-based games with Photon Cloud
- Employ dedicated servers for massive multiuser environments
- Make game logic server-authoritative
- Deal with latency and unreliable networks
- Use PubNub for HTTP-based push messaging
- Employ Player.IO to persist game data to the cloud
- Use various forms of networked entity interpolation
Approach
An easy-to-follow, tutorial manner that uses the learning-by-example approach.
Who this book is written for
If you are a developer who wants to start making multiplayer games with the Unity game engine, this book is for you. This book assumes you have some basic experience with programming. No prior knowledge of the Unity IDE is required.
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Alan R. Stagner
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Alan R. Stagner is an independent developer with a passion for Unity3D game development. He was introduced to programming by his father, he sought out different ways to create games in a variety of languages. Most recently, he found the Unity game engine and was instantly hooked, and discovered his love of multiplayer game development. He has also dabbled in database and server programming from time to time, mostly involving PHP and MySQL with recent forays into ASP.NET.
I'd like to thank my family and friends, of coursemy father is the entire reason I'm a programmer and has helped me every step of the way. Everyone I know has been incredibly supportive. I'd like to thank the Unity communitywithout them I don't think I would know Unity like I do today. I'd also like to thank Unity for providing such an awesome platform and making it so easy for me to write my first multiplayer game.
Clifford Champion has a broad background in software engineering, with years of experience spanning 3D games and Internet applications, and more recently in machine learning. He holds a degree in Mathematics from UCLA. In the past, he has worked as an integration and support engineer at Havok, and also as a lead interactive media and Internet apps programmer at PlainJoe Studios.
Now, he works for zSpace (zspace.com), a hardware/software company creating highly immersive, interactive 3D displays for classrooms, industry, and entertainment. At zSpace, he is a member of the software platform team, helping to enable the holographic-like experience on a variety of game engines and platforms, including Unity. Clifford can be found on Twitter at @duckmaestro and welcomes any discussions.
Fabio Ferrara is a game developer. He is working for Chubby Pixel, an independent game studio based in Milan, which he founded in 2012. They work thoroughly to bring to the users the best possible gaming experience. He has also collaborated for the publication of other books such as Unity iOS Essentials, Packt Publishing.
Sriram. A. S. is a software developer who is currently living in Pune, India. He works primarily in C/C++ and Java. He has been working with Unity 3D from its very early versions; and has developed codes related to its integration with features such as augmented reality, and shared them on his tech blog (http://mypersonalsoft.blogspot.com).
In his spare time, he works on a few open source software. And he also likes to experiment with various other technologies and ideas, along with his team of code passionate friendsthe "Hobby Coders" (http://hobbycoders.com).
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This book intends to step you through the concepts and middleware involved in creating multiplayer games with the Unity game engine. I've been a big fan of multiplayer games for a while. They have a way of tapping into our basic desires, fulfilling a need to compete, to co-operate, and most of all to socialize with our fellow humans, in a way that no single player game can ever provide.
I've experienced a wide range of networking plugins and applications in Unity. As I learn new networking systems, there are always stumbling blocks and difficult issues. I wrote this book because I wanted to help others on the same path, and help them surmount the issues I encountered myself.
To better understand this book, we'll need to cover the basic features of the Unity IDE.
If you open Unity for the first time, you'll be presented with a window where you can either open an existing project or create a new one. Select the Create New Project tab, and choose a location for your project.
Once your project is created, you'll see a number of panels. There are the Scene and Game tabs, the Hierarchy , Project , and Console tabs, and the Inspector tab.
The Scene view shows the current scene. This will allow you to navigate the scene, select objects, move them around, and more. The Game view shows the view of the main camera. If you press the
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