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John P. Doran
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John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Incheon, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently a Technical Game Design Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.
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Logging in to our game via Facebook

One of the things we can do when using the Facebook API is to allow our users to log in to the game using their Facebook account. Then, we can use their name and image automatically within our project. The following steps show us how to achieve this:

  1. Let’s first open up our Main Menu level by going to the Project window, opening the Assets/Scenes folder, and then double-clicking on the MainMenu file.
  2. From there, let’s click on the 2D button to go into 2D mode if you haven’t done so previously. What we will do is replace the original menu and instead have a button for players to log in via Facebook, or play as a guest when the game starts.
  3. Go to the Hierarchy window, select the Canvas - Scale Physical object, and expand it and the Safe Area Holder child. Select the Panel child and rename it Menu Options.
  4. Then, select the Menu Options object in the Hierarchy window and duplicate it by pressing Ctrl + D. Then...
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John P. Doran

John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Incheon, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently a Technical Game Design Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.
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