Ouya Unity game development / Gary Riches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riches, Gary.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unity (Electronic resource).

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A clear, concise, and practical guide that will teach you how to build your own console game and become an indie developer.This book is for game developers who are interested in developing games for the Ouya console on the Unity game engine. It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of Unity.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: What Is Ouya and Why Does It Matter?

The early years

The crash

The recovery

Home computers

Advancement of games consoles

The first indie console

Cellular games

The iPhone

The competitors

Current day

The Ouya

The release

Summary

Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity and the Ouya Plugin

Installing the Android SDK

Installing Java

Setting up the Android SDK

Setting up the Android NDK

Connecting Ouya to your Windows computer

Connecting Ouya to your Mac computer

Ouya Development Kit

Unity project

Bundle identifier

Setting up Ouya Panel

Ouya required prefabs

Building, running, and compiling an application

Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Game

Boo, C#, or UnityScript

Boo

UnityScript

C#

The project structure

Setting up your Scenes

Scripts and MonoDevelop

Scene progression

The Title Screen menu

Advancing to the game

Ouya controller support

Creating the level

Prefabs

Creating a Prefab

Materials

Multidimensional arrays

The BuildLevel method

Chapter 4: Adding a Character and Making Them Move

Making the camera move

Making the character move

Animating the character

Chapter 5: Adding Finesse to Your Game

Texturing your Prefabs

Adding a background

Adding extra levels

Level complete detection

Moving to the next level

Restarting our level

Adding sounds

Chapter 6: Show Me the Money!

Setting up your purchase

Setting up your game

Implementing the Ouya payment framework

How to manage your purchases

Getting the list of products

Limiting your levels.

Unlocking levels for people who have paid

Buying your product

Adding a new menu item

The buy method

Hiding menu items

Submitting your game

Chapter 7: Building Cross-platform Games

Platform Dependent Compilation

Changing the TitleScreen scene

Removing In-App Purchases

Mobile controls

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

ISBN:

9781783559718

1783559713

OCLC:

862050194