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If you have ambitions to be a game developer this guide is a must. Covering all the fundamentals of the Unity game engine, it will help you understand the different elements of 3D game creation through practical projects.

This book follows an informal, demystifying approach to the world of game development with the Unity game engine. With no prior knowledge of game development or 3D required, you will learn from scratch, taking each concept at a time working up to a full 3D mini-game. You'll learn scripting with JavaScript and master the Unity development environment with easy to follow stepwise tasks. The printed version of the book is in black and white, but a full color version of the images is available for download here. The eBook version, available from Packt, is in full color. If you're a designer or animator who wishes to take their first steps into game development, or if you've simply spent many hours sitting in front of video games, with ideas bubbling away in the back of your mind, Unity and this book should be your starting point. No prior knowledge of game production is required, inviting you to simply bring with you a passion for making great games.

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Will Goldstone is an Interactive designer and tutor based in the south west of England. Spending much of his time online, he focuses on web design and game development, specializing in online tutoring of many interactive disciplines. Having discovered Unity in its first version, he has been working to promote its 'game development for everyone' ethic ever since. He spends his free time on graphic design, writing loud music and playing Frisbee on the beach.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing; 1st edition (October 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 184719818X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847198181
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.72 x 9.25 inches

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Hi everyone! my name is Will and I work for Unity Technologies, the good people that bring you the Unity game engine. I wound up working here as I used to be a university tutor, and I was really interested in videogames and how best to teach young people to make them. Back in the days of Macromedia Director we were teaching how to make shockwave games, and soon realised how painful this was for our students, so switched to using Unity in version 1.5, and my fascination with it as a tool for people who want to become game developers began there.

Since being asked to speak at the company's conference, Unite 2010, I was then interviewed for a position, working on education, developer relations, and other marketing related initiatives. These days I run the Online Content Team, working on the Learn section of the official Unity site, producing demos and working with our engineering team to bring you a better Unity.

I have written two books on Unity to date - Unity Game Development Essentials (2009) and the new edition, a major rewrite, Unity 3.x Game Development Essentials. I hope you enjoy reading them and if you need support, you can get it at unitybook.net. If you have any problems with Unity, feel free to get in touch via will at unity3d dot com.

Outside of Unity related stuff I enjoying playing guitar, bass and drums, and making loud Refused-esque noises.

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hsmith

Great entry level guide to Unity Tools

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 8, 2010

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If you were ever interested in learning how to get get started with he unity toolset, you could do a lot worse than this book. This is a from the ground up approach to teaching unity, which for advanced readers may find a little dull, I think most people would benefit by having flipped through the pages.

Pros:
Very clean, focused, writing which walks the reader through all the steps necessary to make a basic game in unity. UI, scripting, and editor usage are all covered and when coupled with the unity documentation leaves very little ambiguity.

Cons:
There is nothing in this book that you could not get out of the official documentation.

It is a short book that leverages unity in the simplest way possible and avoids covering the guts to the point that many people may feel lost at how to apply the concept in a broader way.

This book shows you the bare essentials, as the title implies, but it is still the responsibility of the reader to play and learn the details of the unity engine in order to leverage it for their own purposes. Making a non-FPS, side scroller, fixed camera, puzzle game, etc - this book will show you how the scripting language works, how to put objects in a scene, how to use the UI system: but it won't do much more than that.

Conclusion:
If you've tried to learn unity but got lost in all the documentation, didn't know where to start, or were just overwhelmed (even a little bit) this book is a great idea. It will ground you back by giving you a little focus and direction, as well as an ordered approach to using the unity tools.

That being said, if you've already ran through the documentation and tutorials and feel like you've got a pretty reasonable handle on things, this book won't really offer you much.

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R. Spears

Good Beginner Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2011

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I started this book right after Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide by Ryan Henson Creighton (which served as an excellent base for getting familiar with the IDE and some of Unity's basics).

Goldstone has written an excellent book for making a 1st person game in Unity. The downloadable resources worked without issue in Unity 3. If anything, it was actually fun to work through each chapter to see what would come next (at one point I had a field full of coconuts rolling around which I didn't expect - fun from chapter 6!).

The only issue I had with the book was the manner in which the code was presented. It's a personal preference due in part to how I skim pages, but I learn better when code examples are shown in their entirety, or the new code is shown in snippets of the existing code. I got lost a couple of times when the new code was listed - For example, a bullet list overview of variables was listed before listing the code. Afterward, the code was listed for defining the variables. I then had to jump up a couple of paragraphs to see where this code was going to live (within the paragraph there were directions for creating a new JavaScript file - this was one of those important parts I had skipped over).

The above isn't a reason to not buy the book, just be prepared that if you're a skimmer like I am that it will take a little longer to work through the book.

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Bill Lundgren

Never Listen to Critics - This Is a Fantastic Book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2011

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When I considered purchasing Will Goldstone's Unity Game Development Essentials, I read a number of reviews first. Several of them complained that Will only builds a single project during the course of the book. What that complaint doesn't tell you is just how much Will makes sure you've learned when that project is complete.

It is very clear, to me at least, how much consideration the author had for us newbies with both the depth and breadth of exposure to Unity 3D gained by building that one project. In several instances, multiple approaches to solving problems were discussed (as there is never just one solution to anything.) Trade-offs in choosing a given solution over another were clearly explained. I don't know if this same level of knowledge could have been presented with multiple, smaller projects. The presentation of the knowledge is very carefully executed. No confusion, just a building desire to get coding and fire up Photoshop and Maya!!!

I found this book very approachable, easy to read, and packed with goodies to push me up the learning curve quickly, which is why I bought this plus six other books on Unity 3D in the first place. I am REALLY glad I didn't succumb to the negative reviews and found out for myself. If I had, I would have missed something very helpful.

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Aardvark

Good for beginners...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2009

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The book is a solid offering, actually the ONLY offering, of paper references for the Unity engine. It is a clear, reasonable, well executed book that goes step by step from infancy to toddler stage in learning Unity. It thankfully doesn't spend a lot of time teaching common game programming concepts, but does cover them just enough to keep readers oriented in the right direction.

Much of the book is covered in the documentation available online, but in a sensible and orderly and readable fashion. The writer uses clear, understandable examples in most cases.

As a beginner book, it is stellar. What it begs is for another book to be written which covers intermediate and advanced topics. For professional development, there are quite a few topics that merit coverage (Asset pipeline, dynamic loading, professional code structure, advanced UI, advanced animation, render targets, build pipeline, advanced optimization and profiling, asset server, etc.) These are still untouched topics that could fill a second volume.

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Alex Marmo

The perfect beginner book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 10, 2011

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A relatively slim book that somehow manages to cover a comprehensive set of techniques that can be applied to any game. It doesn't require any previous knowledge of Unity and it teaches you concepts in the best possible way, i.e. by taking you through building a short game, where in each chapter you implement some new feature.

The author takes you through every step of the way and you'll never feel lost. He also explains very well the basics of JavaScript for Unity so if you're new to programming you'll still be able to follow and understand.

The book covers First Person movement, terrain editing, models and animations importing, collisions, instantiation of objects, audio, particle effects, GUI and menu editing and how to release the game...basically all the essential to get you started with any project. The game you end up building is basically a first person shooter so if you're looking to build something alike you'll find all the main techniques here.

It's aimed at beginners so it doesn't cover any specifically advanced technique. If a second, more advanced version is released, i'm buying it immediately.

Great work!

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George Deick

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 13, 2014

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Great book to learn the basics

Martin Dobes

Für alle Hobby- und Profiprogrammierer

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 17, 2009

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Für alle, die sich für die Unity3D Engine interessieren und die mitgelieferten Beispiele zu komplex und unzureichend dokumentiert finden, ist dieses Buch ein idealer Einstieg. Das Buch ist gut strukturiert und beginnt nicht bei Adam und Eva wie die meisten Bücher, die sich mit dem Thema 3D Spieleprogramierung beschäftigen. Die Beispiel-Games sind verständlich beschrieben und erklärt, so dass der Leser in wenigen Schritten in der Lage ist, selbst die ersten, funktionsfähigen Spielchen zu programmieren. Dass ich 4 Sterne vergeben habe, liegt daran, dass sich der Autor leider viel zu wenig mit den Netzwerkkomponenten beschäftig und dadurch erscheint mir das Buch als unvollständig.

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Wolfgang

Das Buch ist ok.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on November 1, 2013

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Also wer Unity3D kennenlernen will, ist damit recht gut bedient, es ist nicht schlecht. Wenn man mehr Beispiele (kleine Mini Games) noch dazu genommen hätte mit Beispiel Code, wäre die Bewertung mit 5 Sternen ausgefallen.

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