Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity

for Windows
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Meet Dave Voyles | @DaveVoyles
• Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
– Focused on Gaming, Cloud, and Web Technologies
– Based out of Philadelphia & Baltimore
• 4+ years of gaming industry experience
– Author: Unrealscript Gameplay Programming Cookbook
– Worked on Xbox 360 & One at Comcast
– davevoyles.azurewebsites.net
Course Topics

Developing 2D & 3D Games with Unity for Windows

01 | Intro & Unity Overview 06 | Optimizing your games
07 | Application Lifecycle Management
02 | 2D Game Development
(ALM) in Unity
03 | 2D & 3D Asset Creation 08 | Marketing and Monetization
09 | Using prime[31] to connect your Unity
04 | 3D Game Development
game to Azure
05 | Building for the Windows Platform 10 | Adding the finishing touches
Setting Expectations

• Target Audience
– Beginner & Intermediate Unity Developers
– C# Programmers
• Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material
– C# Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners
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absolute-beginners
– Digital-tutors.com (great Unity content)
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Microsoft’s investment for indie game devs

• One year free Prime31.com plugins for Microsoft

• Acquired SyntaxTree (UnityVS.com) and released for free
• BizSpark – program for startups in over 100 countries
– Bizspark.com or contact your local evangelist
– Free Visual Studio, Windows, $150 a month to Azure for VMs, web
sites, and cloud services, and lots more. Over $30K more.
• Unity Offers
– Unity3d.com/pages/windows/offer Check often!
– Bring a cool game to windows, get cool stuff
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01 | Intro and Architecture

Adam Tuliper | Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Dave Voyles | Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Module Overview

• Intro & Interface

• Game Objects and Components
• Prefabs and Packages
• Architecture
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Intro & Interface

What is Unity

• Unity is
– A game engine and ecosystem
– Supports more platforms than any other publically available tool
– Used by hobbyists & students, up to major studios
• Unity is not
– A 2D image or vector graphic creation tool (photoshop, gimp)
– A 3D modelling environment*
• It does have a built in terrain system
• Also supports third party plugins that enable some 3D modelling (ProBuilder)
Features/Capabilities

• AAA Game Quality

• Editor for scene (level) assembly & in-editor game play
• Physics
• Programming with C#, JavaScript, Boo
• 2D & 3D Support
• Audio
• Particle Effects
• Animation Systems
Asset Store
• Near everything you need for a game
Its all about the scene

• Think of a scene as a level

• Game is a collection of 1->many scenes
• Scenes are included in build
• Can have many test scenes not in final build
• Remember this icon
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Exploring Unity’s Interface
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GameObjects & Components

GameObjects are everything

• Near everything in a scene is a GameObject

• The System.Object of Unity Lights

• Simply name, tag, transform

• Transform is very important
Particle
3D Models
Systems

GameObject

HUDs Sprites
Components make things happen

• GameObjects come to life via Components

• Includes
– MeshRenderers
– SpriteRenderers
– Audio
– Cameras
– Physics behavior
– Particle systems
– Scripts (your code)
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Prefabs and Packages

Prefabs and Unity packages

• Prefabs allow reuse across (and within) scenes

– Objects will turn blue in hierarchy
• Update .prefab = update every instance in project scenes
• Unity packages allow reuse across projects
– Asset store downloads are actually .unitypackage files
– Can be imported just by double clicking
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Architecture
Unity’s Architecture

• Major Components
– Editor
– MonoDevelop
– Game Engine
• Editor
– Can play test game (play mode)
– Can extend easily
Project Structure

• Assets
– Always top level folder shown in Unity Editor
– Every file you bring into your project, prefabs, art, audio, and more.
• Library
– Local cache for imported assets & metadata for assets.
• ProjectSettings
– Stores settings from Edit->Project Settings
• Temp/Obj
– Used for temporary files during the build process from Mono and Unity
Compilation

• In the Editor
– Mono is always used to compile scripts
– Compilation in editor may be different than final build
– What works in game may be different in end build
• Your exported Visual Studio Project
– Assemblies generated by Mono or .NET
• Your game
– Compilation varies per platform. Different APIs supported.
Multiple levels of compilation

Platform Editor Assemblies Game Assemblies Final compilation performed by

Windows Phone 8 Mono Mono Visual Studio/.NET

Windows Store Mono .NET Visual Studio/.NET (WinRT)

Windows Standalone Mono Mono Unity - Generates .exe + libs

(.exe)

Windows Phone 8.1 Mono .NET Visual Studio/.NET (WinRT)

Programming Model

• Game Loops are per GameObject

• Most major c# constructs, features, types valid
– Lambdas, events, LINQ, anonymous methods, classes, etc
• Do I have to code?
– No – check out PlayMaker, Behave, RainAI
Physics Engine

• 3D physics engine NVIDIA® PhysX® Physics

– Is it any good?
• Licensed by Unity, Unreal Engine 4, Gamebryo, Vision, Instinct, and more

• 2D physics via Box2D

– 2D physics generally much faster
– Is it any good?
• Used by Unity, GameMaker, Construct2, and more
The generated projects & compilation passes
Project Path Used Description
in
Pass
Assembly-CSharp.csproj 3 All other scripts not inside folder
called Editor
Assembly-CSharp- 1 Scripts in folders under /Assets
firstpass.csproj called Standard Assets, Pro
Standard Assets and Plugins

Assembly-CSharp-Editor- 2 Scripts in folders called Standard

firstpass.csproj Assets/Editor, Pro Standard
Assets/Editor and Plugins/Editor
*-.vs projects n/a Can be added to Visual Studio for
editing code and debugging*

Assembly-CSharp- 4 All other scripts inside a folder call

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Coding, Physics, and Particles
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