Make a 2D Arcade Game in a Weekend: With Unity

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Copyright
4. Contents at a Glance
5. Contents
6. About the Author
7. About the Technical Reviewer
8. Acknowledgments
9. Introduction
10. Chapter 1 : Getting Started
    1. Prerequisites
    2. Install Unity
       1. Choosing a License
       2. Welcome to Unity
       3. Configuring Unity
    3. Skinning the Interface
       1. Learning the Views
       2. Understanding Layouts
    4. Development Tips and Tricks
       1. Changing Runtime Background Color
       2. Useful Hotkeys
    5. Summary
11. Chapter 2 : Define Game Layout and Environment
    1. 2D Game Design Setup
    2. Laying Out the Game
    3. Importing Assets
    4. Define Screen Resolution
    5. Adding Background
    6. Adjusting Our Camera
    7. Adding Bricks
       1. Creating PreFabs
       2. Creating Row of Bricks
       3. Add the Paddle
    8. Add the Ball
    9. Summary
12. Chapter 3 : Create Positioning and Movement
    1. Making Our Ball Move
    2. Handling Ball Collisions
    3. Making Our Ball Bounce
    4. Beginning Scripting
       1. The Rules of C Sharp (C#)
       2. Selecting an Editor
       3. Our First Script
       4. Moving the Paddle with the Mouse
       5. Launching the Ball with the Mouse
       6. Destroy the Blocks on Hit
    5. Summary
13. Chapter 4 : Scripting a Game Manager
    1. Keeping Our Ball in the Game Space
    2. Creating Invisible Collider Walls
    3. Changing the Impact of Gravity
    4. Relabeling the Game Objects in Our Scene
    5. Scripting Our Game Manager
    6. Scripting Our Lose Collider
    7. Using UI Text to Display Information
    8. Summary
14. Chapter 5 : Adding Sound and Music
    1. Adding Background Music
    2. Adding Start and End Sounds
    3. Bricks with Action and Impact Sound
    4. Game Area Sounds for the Walls and Paddle
    5. Summary
15. Chapter 6 : Game Power-Ups
    1. Building Power-Up Scripts
    2. Building Base Power-Up Prefab Scripts
    3. Extra Balls Script
    4. Change Paddle Size Script
    5. Creating Prefab Game Objects for Ball and Paddle Changes
       1. Sprites for Prefabs
       2. Extra Ball Prefab
       3. Shrink and Grow Prefabs
    6. Putting it All Together in the Scene
    7. Modify the Lose Script
    8. Summary
16. Chapter 7 : Level Manager and Menu
    1. Creating Intro Scene
       1. Add a Main Title and Buttons
    2. Script for Loading a Level
    3. Modifying the Game Lose Scenario
       1. Add Restart and Main Menu Buttons
       2. Add a Panel for the Buttons
       3. Updating the GameManager and Lose Scripts
    4. Rename and Duplicate Main Scene
    5. Modifying Level 1 to Include Level Manager
    6. Adding Scenes to the Build Settings
    7. Add Additional Buttons
    8. Background Music
    9. Trailing Ball Effect
    10. Summary
17. Chapter 8 : Publishing to the App Store
    1. Investigating Deployment Options
    2. Defining Build Settings
       1. Adding a Quit Button
       2. Button Creation and LevelLoader Script Modification
    3. Deploying to WebGL
    4. Unity Cloud Build
       1. Placing Our Game in GitHub
       2. Adding your GitHub to the Cloud
    5. Summary
18. Index