Thomas Finnegan - Unity Android Game Development by Example Beginners Guide

Thomas Finnegan completed his graduation from Brown College in 2010. Since then, he has worked on everything from mobile platforms to web development, and even experimental devices. He now works as a freelance game developer. Past clients include Carmichael Lynch, Coleco, and Subaru. His most recent project is Battle Box 3D, a virtual table top. Currently he is teaching game development at the Minneapolis Media Institute in Minnesota.

I would like to thank my fiance for kicking me into gear whenever I was distracted. Also, I would like to thank my parents for always supporting me. Without my friends and family, life would be dismal.

Mootez Billeh Chaabani is a software engineer. Currently he is working as a software engineer (Research and Development) in a French company named SpacEyes. He recently completed his graduation. He studied graphical programming and virtual and augmented reality. He also published two apps: Quizz game in the Windows Marketplace and an Android app in the local appshop, and now he is working on Android/C++ projects based on 3D in SpacEyes. Before this, he was an intern at Microsoft Tunisia in 2011. He also worked as an Android developer in Orange Tunisia in 2012. He also worked on the book Android NDk Game Development Cookbook .

I would like to thank my family, my soulmate, and all of my friends including Bardo Boys (my neighborhood friends).

Valera Kogut is a passionate software developer with different areas of expertise. Before diving into the game industry five years ago, Valera was creating for Web with PHP and Yii frameworks. Having a mathematical background, he finally realized gamedev was his mission. Reusable designs, optimized algorithms, clean code, and elaborated workflowsthese things make him happy. He is a co-founder and principal architect at applicat.io, software development agency offering a wide range of services (http://applicat.io). However, architectural and management tasks can't stop Valera from digging deeply into code.

Currently, Valera executes one contract as Unity3D C# developer for Kaufcom GmbH, a known games and apps producer from Switzerland http://www.kauf.com (Android games https://play.google.com/store/search?q=kaufcom).

First of all, thanks to the author and team from Packt Publishing for creating this book, and thereby helping the Unity community grow and mature. Special thanks go to my family for the love, education, and freedom they gave me! I would also like to thank my best friends and associates at applicat.io, Paul Kofmann, Alexander Kofmann, and Vitaly Shapovalov; we are the Team! Thanks to the Kaufcom Company! And of course, no progress of mine could be achieved without the support and love of my wife, Irina.

Marc Schaerer is an interactive media software engineer who is creating cutting edge interactive media experiences for training, education, and entertainment purposes on mobile, desktop, and web platforms for customers through his company Gayasoft (http://www.gayasoft.net) located in Switzerland.

His technology of choice is Unity, which he has been using since its early days in 2007.

He has a strong background in 3D graphics, network technology, software engineering, and the interactive media field. Originally, he started programming at the age of 11 and built upon it later while studying Computer Science and Computational Science and Engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, thereby growing into it. This knowledge found, among other projects, usage in Popper (http://www.popper.org), an interactive 3D behavioral research platform by Harvard developed by Gayasoft and powered by Unity, Mathlab, and the ExitGames Photon.

With the rise of serious games, he focused on researching options and technologies for the next generation of interactive and immersive experiences, applying state of the art AR and VR technologies (Vuforia, Metaio, and Oculus Rift) and new innovative input technologies (Razer Hydra, STEM, Leap Motion, and Emotive Insight). He predicts that this will become the base of future experiences in many fields of our daily life.

Aris Tsevrenis is a game developer and director at Terahard Ltd, a game development studio dedicated to creating addictive games that will be remembered for their quality in every aspect. The company's motto, "Terabytes of Quality for Hardcore Gaming", explains a few things about Aris' ambitions. Aris was introduced to games from a very early age in the 90s. Showing great skill, and evolving from chess to modern computer and console games, Aris became famous among the people who knew his numerous feats in the gaming world. He received his BSc in Computer Science with a Computer Vision and Computer Graphics degree in 2009 from Cardiff University in Wales, followed by an MSc in Computer Games and Entertainment degree from Goldsmith's University in London. He entered the games development world and worked in a few different games companies until he set up Terahard Ltd. He currently lives in London, where his games studio is located, and can be contacted at <>.