Vahé Karamian - Building an RPG with Unity 2018 - Second Edition

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Vah Karamian is a software consultant and author based in Los Angeles, CA. He is the founder of Noorcon Inc., a software consulting firm in Burbank, CA, providing services in the field of augmented reality and virtual reality used in the entertainment, architecture, medical, and manufacturing industries. He has lectured in state and private universities on topics including Introduction to Computer Science, Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, and Game Design and Development.

Adam Larson started programming professionally in 2005. He has shipped 14 console games, 2 PC titles, and 8 mobile games. In 2012, he founded a company that focused on using Unity for business applications. He spent the following 5 years building a million dollar agency that built high-end software. Recently, he moved to another start-up that focuses on revolutionizing the banking industry. When he isn't doing something with technology, you will find him spending time with his wife and three kids.

Francesco Sapio has a master's of science in engineering in AI and Robotics, scoring summa cum laude. Now, he is a PhD researcher. He is a Unity and Unreal expert. Among his many projects, he developed Gea2 (Sapienza), Sticker Book (Dataware Games), and consulted for Prosperity Italy 1434, Mi Rasna (Entertainment Game Apps, Inc), and Projekt I.D (RMIT). He is an active writer on game development, authoring Getting Started with Unity 5.x 2D Game Development, Unity UI Cookbook, and many others. Finally, Francesco loves math, philosophy, logic, and puzzle solving, but mostly loves creating video games.

Michael Miles is a manufacturing engineer working in the aerospace industry by day and a Unity game designer, C#, JavaScript, and Python developer at all other times. With these skills and upon discovering Unity3D and Blender, Michael began creating interactive training and production-ready instruction tools for the assembly of the aircraft his company builds.

When not in front of a computer screen, he likes to play games with family and friends or immerse himself in books from fantasy to theoretical physics.

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Everyone wants to make a gametoday, this is possible more than ever due to the democratization of the game industry and the tools that are used to design and develop games. This book is written with several purposes in mind. During the process of writing this book, Unity went through several major updates and releases. At the time of writing, Unity stands at version 2018.1.1f1, and the new release has added many great features to the game engine. Simply put, it is impossible to cover everything in one single book!

This book is intended as a reference guide for individuals who want to learn about Unity and apply their skills for the creation of a