Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development

✍ Scribed by Philip Chu (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 543
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Unity is an incredibly powerful and popular game creation tool, and Unity 4 brings even more great features, including Mechanim animation. Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development will show you how to use Unity with Xcode to create fun, imaginative 3D games for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You'll learn how to optimize your game for both speed and quality, how to test and profile your game, and how to get the most out of your iOS device features, including the gyroscope and accelerometer.

You'll also learn how to incorporate the latest Game Center improvements in iOS 6 into your game, how to make sure your game gets into the App Store, and even how to promote your app and track revenue.

If you have a great 3D game idea, and you want to make it a reality in the App Store, then Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development has exactly what you need.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Getting Started....Pages 1-18
A Unity Tour....Pages 19-60
Making a Scene....Pages 61-111
Making It Move: Scripting the Cube....Pages 113-147
Let’s Dance! Animation and Sound....Pages 149-174
Let’s Roll! Physics and Controls....Pages 175-211
Let’s Bowl! Advanced Physics....Pages 213-253
Let’s Play! Scripting the Game....Pages 255-281
The Game GUI....Pages 283-307
Using Unity iOS....Pages 309-336
Building for Real: Device Testing and App Submission....Pages 337-372
Presentation: Screens and Icons....Pages 373-400
Handling Device Input....Pages 401-416
Game Center: Leaderboards and Achievements....Pages 417-438
iAd: Banner Ads and Interstitial Ads....Pages 439-451
Optimization....Pages 453-497
Where to Go from Here?....Pages 499-514
Back Matter....Pages 515-524

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general