Lukosek Greg. - Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x

Greg Lukosek was born and raised in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. When he was about 8 years old, his amazing parents bought him and his brother a Commodore C64. That was when his love of programming started. He would spend hours writing simple basic code, and when he couldn't write it on the computer directly, he used a notepad.

Greg completed his mechanical engineering diploma at ZSTiO MeritumSiemianowice Slaskie, Poland. He has learned all his programming skills through determination and hard work at home.

Greg met the love of his life, Kasia, in 2003, which changed his life forever. They both moved to London in search of adventure and decided to stay there.

He started work as a 3D artist and drifted away from programming for some years. Deep inside, he still felt the urge to come back to game programming. During his career as a 3D artist, he discovered Unity and adopted it for an interactive visualizations project. At that very moment, he started programming again.

His love for programming overcomes his love for 3D graphics. Greg ditched his 3D artist career and came back to writing code professionally. He is now doing what he really wanted to do since he was 8 years olddeveloping games.

These days, Greg lives in a little town called Sandy in the UK with Kasia and their son, Adam.

I want to thank my loving wife, Kasia, for all her love and support. Without her, writing this book would be simply impossible. I also want to thank my loving parents, Ela and Marek, and brother, Artur, for always believing in me and giving me exceptional support when I needed it.

Then, I want to thank our son, Adam, for being an awesome child. I hope you will also do what you love in your life.

Karl Henkel is a software developer with a strong background in Unity3d. He is the author of several popular editor extensions in the Unity Asset Store. In addition to game development, he has also worked extensively on visual programming software for musicians and VJs.

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Preface

Hello, future game developers! If you are reading this book, you are probably a curious person trying to learn more about a great game engineUnityand specifically, programming in C#. This book will take you on a learning journey. We will go through it together, beginning with the fundamentals of programming and finishing with a functional 2D platform game.

What this book covers

, Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready , puts you at ease with writing scripts for Unity.

, Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts , helps you develop the skill of writing your first executable code.

, Getting into the Details of Variables , teaches you about creating and using C# variables, followed editing them in Unity Inspector.

, Getting into the Details of Methods , helps you learn more in detail about methods and how to use them to understand the importance of code blocks and the variables used in them.

, Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries , introduces slightly more complex ideas of handling, lists, arrays, and dictionaries, which allow you to store many values at once.

, Conditions and Looping , helps you learn how to "ask" Unity to loop through a section of code and do something useful.

, Objects, a Containers with Variables and Methods , dives into the subjects of organizing your code and object-oriented programming.

, Let's Make a Game! From Idea to Development , shows you how to turn an idea into a ready-to-code project and how to break down complex mechanics into pieces.

, Starting Your First Game , helps us transform an idea into a real Unity project.

, Writing GameManager , gets you acquainted with the basics of the singleton approach and also helps you work through the gameplay loop.

, The Game Level , helps you learn how to create reusable pieces of a level and also how to populate them to create the illusion of an endlessly running game.

, The User Interface , explains how to construct and implement the user interface in our game.

, Collectables What Next? , focuses on collectables and storing some data between Unity sessions.