The Unity Engine Tutorial for Any Game Creator ¿ Unity is now the world’s #1 game engine, thanks to its affordability, continuous improvements, and amazing global community. With Unity, you can design, code, and author your game once, and then deploy it to multiple platforms, reaching huge audiences and earning maximum returns. Learning 2D Game Development with Unity® will help you master Unity and build powerful skills for success in today’s game industry. It also includes a bonus rundown of the new GUI tools introduced in Unity’s version 4.6 beta. ¿ With this indispensable guide, you’ll gain a solid, practical understanding of the Unity engine as you build a complete, 2D platform-style game, hands-on. The step-by-step project will get you started fast, whether you’re moving to Unity from other engines or are new to game development. ¿ This tutorial covers the entire development process, from initial concept, plans, and designs to the final steps of building and deploying your game. It illuminates Unity’s newly integrated 2D toolset, covering sprites, 2D physics, game scripts, audio, and animations. Throughout, it focuses on the simplest and lowest-cost approaches to game development, relying on free software and assets. Everything you’ll need is provided. ¿ Register your book at informit.com/title/9780321957726 to access assets, code listings, and video tutorials on the companion website. ¿ Learn How To <ul>
<li> Set up your Unity development environment and navigate its tools </li> <li> Create and import assets and packages you can add to your game </li> <li> Set up game sprites and create atlas sheets using the new Unity 2D tools </li> <li> Animate sprites using keyframes, animation controllers, and scripting </li> <li> Build a 2D game world from beginning to end </li> <li> Establish player control </li> <li> Construct movements that “feel right” </li> <li> Set up player physics and colliders </li> <li> Create and apply classic gameplay systems </li> <li> Implement hazards and tune difficulty </li> <li> Apply audio and particle effects to the game </li> <li> Create intuitive game menus and interface elements </li> <li> Debug code and provide smooth error handling </li> <li> Organize game resources and optimize game performance </li> <li> Publish your game to the web for others to see and play </li> </ul>
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Learning 2D Game Development with Unity: A Hands-On Guide to Game Creation

Computers & Technology

Johnson, Matthew

Henley, James

Games & Strategy Guides

Addison-Wesley Professional

Behind the Castle Gate: From Medieval to Renaissance

In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both. By encouraging the reader to view castles in relation to their inhabitants, Matthew Johnson uncovers a whole new vantage point. He shows how castles functioned as stage-settings against which people played out roles of lord and servant, husband and wife, father and son. Building, rebuilding and living in a castle was as complex an experience as a piece of medieval art. Behind the Castle Gate brings castles and their inhabitants alive. Combining ground-breaking scholarship with fascinating narratives it will be read avidly by all with an interest in castles.

Behind the Castle Gate: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

History

Europe

Routledge

In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both. By encouraging the reader to view castles in relation to their inhabitants, Matthew Johnson uncovers a whole new vantage point. He shows how castles functioned as stage-settings against which people played out roles of lord and servant, husband and wife, father and son. Building, rebuilding and living in a castle was as complex an experience as a piece of medieval art. Behind the Castle Gate brings castles and their inhabitants alive. Combining ground-breaking scholarship with fascinating narratives it will be read avidly by all with an interest in castles.

This is a lively overview of the major ideas and concepts in archaeological theory.

Archaeological Theory: An Introduction

Ancient Civilizations

Wiley/Blackwell

Perfect for parents or caregivers who want to understand their little ones and why they act the way they do, Ask an Expert: Answers Every Parent Needs to Know gives parents access to professional psychological advice and covers everything from basic baby and child development to more complex problems such as Asperger's syndrome and eating disorders.

Ask An Expert: Answers Every Parent Needs to Know

Halsey, Claire

Grave, Joanna

Reference

Shi Jin is a rebel, the latest in a long line of those who have challenged the Borderless Empire — and failed. Dropped with a crew of convicts on an uninhabited planet, Shi Jin — and mankind — encounter alien life forms for the first time. She discovers that she is part of a much bigger game... one that will force her to decide between her desire to defeat the Empire and the future of humanity!

Fall From Earth

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Bundoran Press Publishing

Sometimes love is not enough.Exiled and orphaned by war, Jarrod begins cultivating a new life protecting those he once saved. When a strange woman and child enter Jarrod's life, everything begins to unravel. A stronger, more powerful force sets the mechanisms of war into motion. Shadow casts over the land of man and the gods prepare to battle for the fate of the Created. Once more Jarrod discovers himself a tool for the divine and must transcend his limitations.Ascension.Rise with the Gods or fall with the dead.

Ascension (Godswar)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Untold Stories

Four unlikely characters are trapped within a tower while an angry dragon tries to fry them. Each has a secret they must consider in their attempts to either kill or mate the dragon for their survival.

Wooing the Dragon: Love Bites

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Discord and Harmony: Tales from the Nightingale Saga

This book explores the role of private mining rights in the utopian imaginary of space colonisation. It presents a transdisciplinary account of the new and evolving legislative frameworks that have been established in anticipation of commercial exploitation of the mineral resources of the off-world frontier. Written in an engaging style, the book investigates a novel case study in the history of capitalism and 'the commons': the emergence of a nascent space mining industry, undergirded by a contentious legislative framework. In 2015, the United States passed laws that would recognise the claims of US corporations to own and sell space resources. This unilateral act of pre-emptive law-making would appear to contravene the terms of the UN Outer Space Treaty (1967), which declared that the exploration and use of outer space should be 'for the benefit of all mankind' and 'not subject to national appropriation'. Using this central dynamic between privately-held mining rights and outer space as a 'global commons', Matthew Johnson constructs an historical sociology of space mining - from the deep historical roots of common and private property, to the contemporary networks of neoliberalism that have engaged with the commercialisation of space activity. The anticipatory expansion of private property claims beyond the Earth both resonates with and problematises the 'terrain' of political history, such as the tensions between states and markets, public law and private power, 'the commons' and exclusive property. The emerging cosmopolitics of off-world private property mirrors (and is often explicitly embedded within) neoliberal geopolitics, prompting urgent questions about how we can reaffirm principles of democracy and 'common heritage' in the international laws of Earth and space. This book is compelling reading for anyone interested in the social study of space, law, economics, technology, politics and property rights.

Property Rights in Outer Space (Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series)

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

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