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    Ouya Unity Game Development
    Ouya Unity Game Development
    Ouya Unity Game Development
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    Ouya Unity Game Development

    By Gary Riches

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    A clear, concise, and practical guide that will teach you how to build your own console game and become an indie developer.This book is for game developers who are interested in developing games for the Ouya console on the Unity game engine. It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of Unity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateOct 23, 2013
    ISBN9781783559718
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      Ouya Unity Game Development - Gary Riches

      Table of Contents

      Ouya Unity Game Development

      Credits

      About the Author

      Acknowledgment

      About the Reviewers

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. What Is Ouya and Why Does It Matter?

      The early years

      The crash

      The recovery

      Home computers

      Advancement of game consoles

      The first indie console

      Cellular games

      The iPhone

      The competitors

      Current day situation

      History of Ouya

      Ouya's release

      Summary

      2. Setting Up Unity and the Ouya Plugin

      Installing the Android SDK

      Installing Java

      Setting up the Android SDK

      Setting up the Android NDK

      Connecting Ouya to your Windows computer

      Connecting Ouya to your Mac computer

      Ouya Development Kit

      The Unity project

      The bundle identifier

      Setting up Ouya Panel

      Ouya required prefabs

      Building, running, and compiling an application

      Summary

      3. Setting Up Your Game

      Boo, C#, or UnityScript

      Boo

      UnityScript

      C#

      The project structure

      Setting up your Scenes

      Scripts and MonoDevelop

      Scene progression

      The title screen menu

      Advancing to the game

      Ouya controller support

      Creating the level

      Prefabs

      Creating a Prefab

      Materials

      Multidimensional arrays

      The BuildLevel method

      Summary

      4. Adding a Character and Making Them Move

      Making the camera move

      Making the character move

      Ouya controller support

      Animating the character

      Summary

      5. Adding Finesse to Your Game

      Texturing your Prefabs

      Adding a background

      Adding extra levels

      Level complete detection

      Moving to the next level

      Restarting our level

      Adding sounds

      Summary

      6. Show Me the Money!

      Setting up your purchase

      Setting up your game

      Implementing the Ouya payment framework

      How to manage your purchases

      Getting the list of products

      Limiting your levels

      Unlocking levels for people who have paid

      Buying your product

      Adding a new menu item

      The buy method

      Hiding menu items

      Submitting your game

      Summary

      7. Building Cross-platform Games

      Platform Dependent Compilation

      Changing the TitleScreen scene

      Removing In-App Purchases

      Mobile controls

      Summary

      Index

      Ouya Unity Game Development

      Ouya Unity Game Development

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      Credits

      Author

      Gary Riches

      Reviewers

      John P. Doran

      Steve Jarman

      Acquisition Editor

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      About the Author

      Gary Riches is a longstanding member of the iOS developer community. He has a keen interest not only in established sections of the industry such as gaming but also in emerging technologies such as Ouya, GameStick, and others.

      Filled with a passion to program on new systems, he has just become a registered Wii U developer and will also create content for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. To target so many platforms he uses Unity, which he learned while working on the Augmented Reality SBook for Saddington Baynes.

      When not building software for other companies, he builds his own business by creating photo manipulation apps such as Zombify Me, games such as Aztec Antics and Amazed, and also works on educational apps and games such as Nursery Rhymes: Volume 1, 2, and 3.

      Acknowledgment

      I would very much like to thank my wonderful wife, Sophie. Without her support and enthusiasm I would not be where I am today or the man I am today. This one paragraph cannot thank her enough but I doubt Packt Publishing will let me write a book to her so it'll have to do. I must also thank my beautiful daughter Evie, she provides a brilliant distraction when I'm taking a break or thinking of what to write or do next.

      I must also thank my Mum and Dad, they provided me with computer equipment from an early age, without which I would have never been able to learn how to program. Along with the rest of my family, my brother David, helped to foster a very strong interest in computers and computing. I will never forget when he made our Spectrum flash insults at me on the screen by programming it and it seemed like pure magic.

      Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche wrote the book I learnt iOS development from and without them I would have missed the mobile train completely.

      And finally I must thank all of those from the #actionscript IRC channel where I first learned to program. Special thanks goes out to Rob Gibson, Mark Griffin, Glenn Jones, Andreas Rønning, and all the other people from that channel that I haven't mentioned.

      About the Reviewers

      John P. Doran is a technical game designer who has worked on all manners of educational, mod, and professional game projects. He graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design.

      He previously worked at LucasArts in San Francisco, CA on Star Wars 1313 as an intern Level Designer. He is currently the lead instructor of the DigiPen-Ubisoft Campus Game Programming Program, instructing graduate level students in an intensive, advanced-level game programming curriculum. He's also a Software Engineer at DigiPen's Singapore campus teaching advanced usage of C/C++, UDK, Flash, Unity, and ActionScript in a development environment to students.

      He is the author of Mastering UDK Game Development, Getting Started with UDK, and the co-writer of UDK iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide, all available from Packt Publishing.

      You can check his blog at http://johnpdoran.com and contact him at .

      Thanks so much to the author for allowing me to give him my thoughts while writing the book, I hope that they helped.

      I'd also like to thank my brother, Chris Doran, and my wife Hannah Mai for being there for me whenever I need it and being patient while I was working on this. I'd also like to thank all the lovely people at Packt Publishing for all of their support and know-how!

      Steve Jarman is a software developer from Sydney, Australia. He has been programming for almost 30 years; starting out on a Commodore 64 at an early age. Since 2008, Steve's efforts have been focused on video game development, primarily using the Unity engine. He is the creator of several successful mobile apps and games. Steve can be contacted through his website at www.stevejarman.com.

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