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Discover how to use the Unity game engine to its full potential for both 3D and 2D game development―from the basics of scripting to useful tricks in gameplay, behavior, and animation. With this problem-solving cookbook, you’ll get started in two ways:

First, you’ll learn about the Unity game engine through brief recipes that teach specific features of the software and scripting systems.

Second, you’ll apply a collection of snippets to address common gameplay scenarios, such as properly keeping score.

Using our cookbook format, we pinpoint the problem, set out the solution, and discuss how to solve your problem in the best and most straightforward way possible. This book is ideal for beginning to intermediate Unity developers.

You’ll find solutions for:

  • 2D and 3D graphics
  • Math, physics, and character control
  • Animation and movement
  • Behavior and AI
  • Sound and music
  • Input and gameplay
  • Scripting and user interface

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Welcome to the Unity Game Development Cookbook! We’re incredibly excited about this book, and really proud of our work on it. We hope you find it a useful companion to your game development using the Unity engine.

Unity is an amazing platform, and the more you use it the more you’ll come up with new ideas on how you can use it, why you could use it, and so on! It’s all very exciting. Trust us, we’ve been there.

As Secret Lab, we use Unity to build most of our video games. We’re best known for building children’s games in Australia, as well as our contributions to the BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods. We discovered Unity more than a decade ago, and we haven’t stopped using it since.

In this book, we’ve assembled a selection of recipes to solve common problems that we found ourselves solving over and over as we build video games using Unity. This book won’t cover every single tiny thing you want to know about Unity, but it hopefully covers the majority of things you’d be doing day-to-day in video game development.

These recipes are about things we wish we had someone to ask about back when we were first building our own games. We really hope they help you!

It’s a really exciting time to be using Unity. The game development world is getting bigger and more interesting every day, and the tools and technologies we use are better than ever.

Go out and build great games!

Audience and Approach

This book assumes that you know a little of the C# programming language, or a similar language like C++, Java, Go, Swift, Python, or other common languages, but don’t know anything about Unity. This book is intended to be a companion to get your games up and running faster.

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Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, an indie game and app development studio in Hobart, Australia. He spends his time designing video and board games, and mobile apps, and is also co-author of more than a dozen technical books, mostly for O’Reilly ― recently Learning Swift and a book on the Kerbal Space Program video game.

Jon Manning is co-founder of Secret Lab, and is a software engineering expert in Swift, C#, and Objective-C. Jon builds games and apps at Secret Lab for clients from around the world, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Qantas, and Meebo (acquired by Google). Jon has co-authored more than a dozen technical books, and has a PhD in Computing.

Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, PhD student, and now he even pretends to be an author. When he isn't busy avoiding being found out as a fraud, he spends most of his time designing and creating little apps and games he won't let anyone see. Tim spent a disproportionately long time writing this tiny little bio, most of which was spent trying to stick a witty sci-fi reference in, before he simply gave up. Tim can be found as @The_McJones on Twitter.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (April 16, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 405 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491999152
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491999158
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, and the Qantas Joey Playbox, and the popular open source YarnSpinner narrative game framework.

Paris formerly worked as a software engineer, and product manager for Meebo, which was acquired by Google in 2012.

He has a degree in medieval history, a PhD in Computing, and writes technical books on machine learning, programming, and game development for O’Reilly Media.

He can be found on Twitter @parisba and online at http://paris.id.au

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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019
    I opened the box from Amazon yesterday. This is a very good book for UNITY developers. The book works will from beginner to advanced level. For the advanced developer, the book is a good reference, with the detail in a nutshell. A must have reference. High five to: the authors, Paris, Jon, Tim. A high five too, to O'Reilly. I bough quite a few books from O'Reilly and never had a dud.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019
    Awesome compilation of various tricks and elements to add to your unity game. Its a good reference book to look through if you have something in particular in mind and it will throughly go through the code.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2020
    It is important to keep in mind this is a cookbook. It doesn't do make in terms of explaining, but if you have even just decent know how regarding C# and Unity you will be able to decipher and reap benefits from the book. I personally have used the book as another stepping stone. It shows one surefire way how to complete x y and z and as I've progressed I've evolved and adapted what I'd gained from this book to meet my needs. Overall I am very happy with it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2019
    This book contains many code examples of solutions to common problems/use cases in Unity. The code is easy to read and the descriptions are very helpful.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2020
    I tasted all the recipes in this book, they're horrible.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020
    Product came as described. It’s a great book for beginners!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2019
    I've been doing 3D game development in Unity for a while, but and there were always one or two "how do I do this?" things that always nagged at me. So when I saw that they were covered in Unity Game Development Cookbook, I was immediately interested. I have to say, I was NOT disappointed. This book is AMAZING.

    The "cookbook" title is definitely accurate: at its core, this book has an enormous number of working, immediately usable, easily readable, cleanly written, well-commented code samples that are built to be incorporated into your code. They cover a wide range of topics, including controller input, physics, animation, artificial intelligence, audio, building user interfaces, and more. The code is constructed really well: it's very easy to read, and built to be easily incorporated into your Unity projects immediately.

    But I feel like the "cookbook" title doesn't quite do justice to this book, because it's so much more than "just" an enormous number of ready-to-use, easily understood samples. There are a TON of easily followed, well-paced tutorial-style guides to many Unity features. I especially like their thorough coverage of the animation system, including the ins and outs of humanoid animation. Looking to unravel the mysteries of Shader Graph? Having trouble getting your character's hand to realistically reach for an object? Feeling like you need to learn just enough math, but don't want to take a course on it? Trying to understand why your game has gotten a little slow, and want to learn more about memory management? This book covers all of that, and more. It's amazing how much knowledge the authors have crammed into this book—and even they did it in a way that's easy to read, understand, and learn from.

    Unity Game Development Cookbook is one of the best technical books I've read. If you're a beginner, it will help you ramp up really quickly. It will teach you things you don't know about Unity even if you're already an expert. It deserves to be on your shelf.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020
    Who is this book NOT for?

    People with no previous Unity experience. People with no previous coding experience. People who have no idea how games are made or how games work from a BASIC design pattern perspective. If you fall into this camp this should be your second or third book, not your first. It's a "cookbook" (a reference book) filled with recipes. You have to already have some idea what you're looking for in order for this to be useful.

    Who is the book for?

    People who have previous coding experience with any language at an beginner-intermediate to intermediate level. People who have some knowledge of the most basic game design patters. People with an idea about what they WANT to do but simply don't know HOW to do it in Unity with C#. People who have already completed full-length Unity tutorial and are now looking for specific solutions to problems now that they're creating their own game (not just walking through a tutorial).

    This is a great book to help you transition from "tutorial hell" to actually making your own game. Read through it once without making an effort to memorize anything or test the code. Just focus on understanding the concepts. Now go make your game. Use the high level concepts from the first read-through to help structure your game's code and design patterns. Once you hit a snag come back to this book and solve the problem.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars one of the better unity books ive read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2021
    Ive read a number of unity books, and I like the format of this the best, basically it describes an issue then the solution so saves on all the chapters regarding setting up unity. It also describes best practices rather than trying to keep it simple which is a specific annoyance I have with a lot of the unity books Ive read.
    long story short I recommend this once you've got past the basics as it does contain really good info.
  • Jesús
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente para referencia y problemas específicos
    Reviewed in Mexico on September 27, 2019
    Excelente para referencias y problemas específicos, sobre todo para quien va iniciando.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome like Awesome
    Reviewed in India on December 7, 2020
    How Americans would say it.. This book is awesome like everrrr...😎
  • Ananas
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not suitable for beginners
    Reviewed in Germany on June 4, 2020
    I bought this book because it said there are topics from beginner to advanced level. For me as a beginner in using unity it is very hard to understand. At the beginning of chapter 2, which is about scripting, there are examples for code and methods but for me they could be explained in more detail. For a person that has never worked with code before this book is not suitable. I suppose you need some experience in programming with C# and then I think this book could be a helpful companion. But for me it was not helpfull at all.