Unity iOS Game Development Beginners Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: What is Unity and why should I care?
Chapter 2: Getting Up and Running
Chapter 3: Hello World
Chapter 4: Unity Concepts
Chapter 5: Scripting: Whose line is it anyway?
Chapter 6: Our Game: Battle Cry!
Chapter 7: Input: Let's Get Moving!
Chapter 8: Multimedia
Chapter 9: User Interface
Chapter 10: Gameplay Scripting
Chapter 11: Debugging and Optimization
Chapter 12: Commercialization: Make 'fat loot' from your Creation
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: What is Unity and why should I care?
• Important preliminary points
• What is Unity?
• Getting a real application running on a device
• Time for action – Loading a project
• Time for action – Select iPhone as a target platform
• Time for action – Publishing to our device
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Up and Running
• Welcome home
• Transform tools
• Transform Gizmo Toggles
• VCR Controls
• Layers drop-down
• Layout drop-down
• Project view
• Hierarchy view
• Scene view
• Game view
• Inspector
• Console view
• Profiler view
• Time for action – Creating a new layout
• Time for action – Saving a new layout
• Time for action – Deploying Unity Remote
• Time for action – Testing our application using Unity Remote
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Hello World
• Composing our first scene
• Start with the basics
• Time for action – Creating a scene
• Time for action – Creating objects in a scene
• Time for action – Let there be light
• Time for action – Hello "World"
• Time for action – Controling the camera
• Time for action – Deploying to the iOS device
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Unity Concepts
• Basic concepts of Unity development
• Asset
• Time for action – Exporting asset packages
• Time for action – Importing asset packages
• Game Objects
• Components
• Time for action – Adding components to Game Objects
• Transform
• Time for action – Positioning, Rotating, and Scaling a
• Game Object
• Camera
• Camera properties
• Camera projection types
• Lights
• Directional light
• Point light
• Spot light
• Lightmapping
• Sound
• Audio listener
• Audio sources
• Audio clips
• Time for action – Adding audio clips
• Scripts
• Editors
• Prefabs
• Time for action – Creating prefabs
• Scene
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Scripting: Whose line is it anyway?
• Important preliminary points
• Unity Scripting Primer
• Oh no! You've got Mono!
• Common Language Infrastructure
• Boo- more than a ghost in mario
• What does a Boo script look like?
• Should I choose Boo?
• UnityScript/JavaScript – Relevant beyond the web
• What does a Javascript script look like?
• Should I choose JavaScript?
• C# – The revenge of Microsoft
• What does a C# script look like?
• Should I choose C#?
• Time for action – Creating and organizing scripts
• Attaching scripts to Game Objects
• Exposing variables in the Unity editor
• Key scripting methods
• iPhoneSettings
• Screen orientation
• Sleep mode
• Device information
• Time for action – Identifying the type of iOS
• Location services
• Time for action – Changing state according to player location
• Screen manipulation
• Time for action – Rotating the screen
• iPhoneUtils
• Playing movies
• Is my application genuine?
• Time for action – Yarr! There be pirates!
• Accessing the camera
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Our Game: Battle Cry!
• Game Concept
• Story
• Interface
• Control
• Audio
• Time for action – Project setup
• Time for action – Building a game world
• Unity Asset Store
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Input: Let's Get Moving!
• Input Capabilities
• The technology of touch
• Resistive technology
• Capacitive technology
• Infrared technology
• Accelerometer
• Gyroscope
• Touch screen
• Accelerometer/Gyroscope
• Implementing Joysticks
• Time for action – Getting oriented
• Time for action – Implementing the joysticks
• Moving around
• Time for action – Implementing the camera control
• Time for action – Animating the player character
• Importing an animation
• Animation splitting
• Multiple files
• Importing an animation
• Time for action – Importing from Mixamo
• Driving our character
• Time for action – Driving our character
• Time for action – Getting a driver's license with Root
• Motion Controller
• Rotation via Accelerometer
• Time for action – Updating upon device tilt
• Shaking the device to perform healing action
• Time for action – Detecting a shake
• Physician heal thyself
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Multimedia
• Important preliminary points
• Audio capabilities
• Playing sounds
• Time for action – Adding ambient sounds
• Time for action – Adding sounds to actions
• Playing music
• Time for action – The sound of music
• Video capabilities
• Time for action – Playing embedded video
• Time for action – Streaming video
• Summary

• Chapter 9: User Interface
• Important preliminary points
• Translating the design
• Immediate mode game user interfaces
• Time for action – Creating the menu background
• What just happened?
• Putting the menu on the screen
• Time for action – Adding buttons to the GUI
• A better way – UIToolkit
• Time for action – Prime31 UIToolkit
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Gameplay Scripting
• Gunplay as gameplay
• Time for action – Readying the weapon
• Firing projectiles
• Time for action – Adding a particle system
• Let the animation drive
• Animation Events
• Time for action – Adding animation events
• You are already dead
• World Particle Colliders
• Time for action – Detecting collisions
• Playing with (rag) dolls
• Time for action – Attaching a rag doll
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Debugging and Optimization
• Debugging
• Time for action – Using breakpoints
• Time for action – Debugging the application
• Time for action – Stepping through the game
• Profiling
• Time for action – Fine tuning the application (Pro Versions)
• Object pooling – Into the pool
• Time for action – Optimizing with the object pool
• Unleash the beast
• Time for action – Generating Beast lightmaps
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Commercialization: Make 'fat loot' from your Creation
• Business model generation
• Pure app sales
• Advertising
• In-App purchases
• Marketplace component
• Time for action – Readying your app for sale
• Time for action – Adding iAds
• In-App purchases
• Subscription types
• Delivery models
• Time for action – Adding In-App purchases
• Time for action – Adding content to the Unity Asset Store
• Measuring success with iTunes Connect
• Time for action – How is our game doing?
• Summary

• Pop Quiz Answers
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2

• Index