Calabrese - Unity 2D Game development

Dave Calabrese is an independent professional video game developer who has worked in the industry since 2002. Starting as an intern and working his way up to running his own small studio, Cerulean Games, he strives to produce fun and quality entertainment while also inviting others to learn from his experience and mistakes. Dave has had the opportunity to work on branded projects for top names and produce titles for multiple platforms, including Xbox 360, iOS, PC, and Mac. Today, he continues to produce fun and original games, participate in game jams, and author books.

Special thanks to my fiance Kelly Myers for always putting up with my shenanigans.

Frtna zbalk is an enthusiast of video games and game development tools. He is experienced in various game engines, including the Unreal Development Kit, Source Engine, Ogre3D, and Unity 3D. Additionally, he has studied open source physics engines such as Box2D in order to achieve a greater understanding of game mechanics. He has published several game mods and trainers and is a long-term contributor to several game development communities and GitHub. His latest project is a plugin to enhance the usability of the 2D physics of the Unity3D engine.

Frtna is currently employed by a British billing company as a core developer. Previously, he worked for a visual effects company, specializing in production tools development. He graduated from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, earning a degree with honors in Computer Science. He maintains a tiny garden in his London flat's balcony.

I would like to thank my parents: Sonay and Erdoan zbalk, my sister Goncagl, as well as Chelsea for their support in me being a reviewer.

Karin Rindevall is a Swedish animator and game artist with six years of experience in the gaming industry. She has worked with the Unity engine on several games released on various platforms. Her first Unity 3D title was MilMo (2008), the first 3D action adventure MMO played on a web browser. Today, she makes animation and art assets for 2D and 3D games released on PC and mobile devices at Hello There, a game studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. Their most recent game titles are Avicii | Gravity and Khaba. When Karin isn't creating games, she runs half marathons and creates comics.

Jack O. Snowden presently works for Wargaming of America, researching best practices for game development and game design. This includes environment design and modeling, texturing, object modeling, and game design.

He has worked at Electronic Arts Canada, Edmark (Riverdeep), spent a long extended time with Nintendo Software Technology, and finally as an academic director at the Seattle Art Institute, where he ran the gaming and animation departments.

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Preface

Howdy and welcome! Take a seat and grab a drink. There you go. So, you say you want to learn all about this old-fashioned 2D stuff in that new-fangled Unity game engine? Well, you've come to the right place. Er, book. This here book? It's all about using those awesome 2D updates that Unity added in v4.3 to make an entire game. Yup, a whole, basic platformer, complete with parallax scrolling, enemy logic, UI, and a boss battle. Pretty sweet deal, eh?

What this book covers

, Introduction to the 2D World of Unity , covers the basics of getting Unity up and running for 2D games and setting up a simple, animated, sprite-based player character.

, It Lives! , is all about camera control, 2D triggers, player death and resurrection, firing a weapon, and a bit about state machines for good measure.

, No Longer Alone , adds enemies! Shoot them, get killed by them, and watch them patrol. It's a party where everyone wants to kill you!

, Give It Some Sugar , shows you how to build dynamic, endless enemy generation and a bigger game world, introduces parallax scrolling, and adds a scoring system.

, The Ultimate Battle of Ultimate Destiny , lets you know that the enemies have a friend, and he's angry! In this chapter, you will build an entire boss battle.