Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual

By Mani | April 30, 2010 | Reviews | View Comments

Will Goldstone’s Unity Game Development Essentials (UGDE) has arrived. It’s the first book about the Unity Game Engine by the person whose videos were the first and most comprehensive Unity videos to date. Will also runs LearnMeSilly.com and LearnUnity3D.com. Unity Game Development Essentials
is a crisp and detailed primer into the powerful Unity engine, 3D programing and game development all at once. Will shares his hard-earned insight and productivity tips as he guides you through learning the Unity IDE. In the early chapters you will learn the various tools available for developing realistic terrains complete with varied trees and grass. You’ll take a deep dive into the First Person Controller and its components including the CharacterController. As Will puts it, “If you know how something is put together then you’re able to fix it when something goes wrong”.

Unity Game Development Essentials guides the learner through importing a 3D model into Unity with animations intact. You can then control the animations from the code. Speaking of code. You’ll cover how to use Javascript to add functionality to your game from requiring the player to have met conditions to earn rewards to deciding if he’ll be warm by bonfire for the night. Will explains it in such a way that developers coming from a Flash background will feel at home enough to reach for Control-Enter. Everything from making your variables accessible from the Unity workspace to manipulating your public static variables from other objects and updating your Heads-up display receives a generous yet concise coverage. Subtle reminders and reviews of key procedures help you walk away from the book with a habits that will make you productive and a foundation that prepares you for exploring the Unityverse.

Share this on :


Related Posts with Thumbnails Tags: game development, Paul Tondeur, Reviews, Tutorials, unity game, unity game development essentials, will goldstone

Related posts

Pages: 1 2

fold-left fold-right
About the author

View Comments to Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual

  1. diamondtearz says:
    December 8, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/8k5lm6

    via uberVU

  2. diamondtearz says:
    December 8, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/8k5lm6

    via uberVU

  3. retrogamer4ever says:
    January 7, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    RT @InfiniteUnity3D: RT @InfiniteUnity3D Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/8k5lm6

    via uberVU

  4. retrogamer4ever says:
    January 7, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    RT @InfiniteUnity3D: RT @InfiniteUnity3D Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/8k5lm6

    via uberVU

  5. chemical_pete says:
    January 7, 2010 at 10:26 pm

    RT @InfiniteUnity3D: RT @InfiniteUnity3D Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/8k5lm6

    via uberVU

  6. chemical_pete says:
    January 7, 2010 at 10:26 pm

    RT @InfiniteUnity3D: RT @InfiniteUnity3D Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/8k5lm6

    via uberVU

  7. InfiniteUnity3D says:
    March 26, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Unity Game Development Essentials by @willgoldstone is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/bwpRKE #unity3d #gamedev #indiegames

    via uberVU

  8. diamondtearz says:
    March 26, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Unity Game Development Essentials by @willgoldstone is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/bwpRKE #unity3d #gamedev #indiegames

    via uberVU

  9. InfiniteUnity3D says:
    March 26, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Unity Game Development Essentials by @willgoldstone is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/bwpRKE #unity3d #gamedev #indiegames

    via uberVU

  10. diamondtearz says:
    March 26, 2010 at 2:23 am

    Unity Game Development Essentials by @willgoldstone is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://bit.ly/bwpRKE #unity3d #gamedev #indiegames

    via uberVU

  11. neurofuzzy says:
    May 1, 2010 at 1:52 am

    RT @retrogamer4ever, @InfiniteUnity3D: #unity3d Unity Game Development Essentials is here. http://goo.gl/fb/9SHem

    via uberVU

  12. willgoldstone says:
    May 2, 2010 at 9:00 am

    RT @InfiniteUnity3D: #unity3d Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://goo.gl/fb/9SHem

    via uberVU

  13. retrogamer4ever says:
    April 30, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    RT @InfiniteUnity3D: #unity3d Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual http://goo.gl/fb/9SHem

    via uberVU

Trackbacks for this post

  1. Manuel Saint-Victor
  2. John W Fisher II
  3. Infinite Unity3D. co
  4. Joseph Burchett
  5. Peter Steiner
  6. Infinite Unity3D. co
  7. Chris Herborth
  8. An Organizational Voyage 4 « O-New
blog comments powered by Disqus