Unity3 is an amazing game development tool being used around the world by professional, indie and bedroom game developers. This hands-on blueprints book is designed to get to the heart of Unity 3 development by showing you how to create 4 classic games with a Unity twist. All the code and the high quality game art assets are available from the Deep Pixel website so you can build the games yourself or customize your own projects! This book is aimed at indie game developers and artists who want to develop winning video games. This book will assume no prior knowledge of Unity or game creation in general, but you should be comfortable in development environments and have some knowledge of scripting (a refresher will be provided). This book uses JavaScript as the example language. Games: Match the Pairs, Top-Down Shooter, Tower Defense, Marble Madness. Play all the games and download all the code now from the Deep Pixel website.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Glewash
Format:Paperback
Unity 3 Blueprints is exactly what it says it is: a guide.
Comments like "this isnt for the serious indie developer", and grading the book poorly are based on personal expectations and, in my opinion of course, unfair in this case. Even "serious" people have to start somewhere and if they'd rather buy a guide than dig up and organize the assortment of free ones out there this is a good place to start!
My personal experience with Blueprints:
1. I've become more comfortable with Unity over time without inundation.
2. I've taken that comfort and started to run with it into expansions of their projects; Like making changes to their "marble madness" game to the point of losing hours of time tweaking extras I've imagined. This alone says their instruction worked as designed.
3. The authors will answer questions! Writing a book isnt signing up for a support job but the company attached here is very friendly and willing to support their readers.
Essentially, as stated before, it did exactly what I asked of it: give me a friendly kick into the world of Unity. (and save me the time of gathering random tutorials!) Thanks deeppixel.com folks!
Comments like "this isnt for the serious indie developer", and grading the book poorly are based on personal expectations and, in my opinion of course, unfair in this case. Even "serious" people have to start somewhere and if they'd rather buy a guide than dig up and organize the assortment of free ones out there this is a good place to start!
My personal experience with Blueprints:
1. I've become more comfortable with Unity over time without inundation.
2. I've taken that comfort and started to run with it into expansions of their projects; Like making changes to their "marble madness" game to the point of losing hours of time tweaking extras I've imagined. This alone says their instruction worked as designed.
3. The authors will answer questions! Writing a book isnt signing up for a support job but the company attached here is very friendly and willing to support their readers.
Essentially, as stated before, it did exactly what I asked of it: give me a friendly kick into the world of Unity. (and save me the time of gathering random tutorials!) Thanks deeppixel.com folks!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Dave Coleman
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The first project was entertaining, well written, with only a few gotchas. The second project starts introducing lots of fun little errors, inconsistencies, and bad coding practices. Aside from the confusion they create, these also come back to bite you in the third project if you continue to use them, sometimes causing quite a bit of frustration.
Naming conventions; use them. Or at least use properly descriptive variable names. Good variable names can act as partial documentation. Take the time to write your own comments in the code. It helps you learn, and it'll make it a lot easier to go back to a project later and borrow code snippets of key functionality.
It feels like the author was in teacher-mode for the first project, but started getting impatient, and it gets a little crazy later on. There is an errata page on their website, but the author stopped updating that months ago.
Overall, I recommend the book if you're just getting started, and want a gentle introduction... but be ready to fix what made it past the editors. Also, look for a secondary book or resource for the more technical stuff. This book gives adequate but minimal coverage.
Naming conventions; use them. Or at least use properly descriptive variable names. Good variable names can act as partial documentation. Take the time to write your own comments in the code. It helps you learn, and it'll make it a lot easier to go back to a project later and borrow code snippets of key functionality.
It feels like the author was in teacher-mode for the first project, but started getting impatient, and it gets a little crazy later on. There is an errata page on their website, but the author stopped updating that months ago.
Overall, I recommend the book if you're just getting started, and want a gentle introduction... but be ready to fix what made it past the editors. Also, look for a secondary book or resource for the more technical stuff. This book gives adequate but minimal coverage.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Allek
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I tried quite a few Unity3d books out there and this one is the best of them.
Great resource for beginners!
Great resource for beginners!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book
The book was realy easy to read. The chapters are well arranged starting from easier and continue to more harder stuff in Unity. Scripting is all done in JavaScript's language. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Denislav Georgiev
2.0 out of 5 stars
Full of errors
The book does what it says on the cover, but I cannot stomach this many errors both in the code and in the text considering I PAID FOR IT. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Tor Hagen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for a Unity 3D beginner
If you're new to Unity, the four tutorials in this book are a great introduction to get you started. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Josh Neiman
5.0 out of 5 stars
the ideal book for beginners
In my opinion this is the best choice to get started with Unity3d
The book is focused on the gameplay rather than on the editor
Right ! Read more
The book is focused on the gameplay rather than on the editor
Right ! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Alberto
4.0 out of 5 stars
very limited introduction
After finishing, you will not be in a position to make an indie game to put on the market. It does not cover sound or background music. Read more
Published 21 months ago by sorryaboutmyface
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good for the kids I suppose - not for serious indie dev
I expected much more from this book. Unity has become a very professional tool for creating games and I expected some very polished and professional level "blueprints" in this... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Lovecraft
