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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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Using the accelerometer

Another type of input that mobile has, but PC doesn’t, is the accelerometer. This allows you to move in the game by tilting the physical position of the phone. The most popular example of this is likely the movement of the player in games such as Lima Sky’s Doodle Jump and Gameloft’s Asphalt series. To do something similar, we can retrieve the acceleration of our device with the Input.acceleration property and use it to move the player. Let’s look at the steps to do just that:

  1. We may want to allow our designers to set whether they want to use the Accelerometer mode or ScreenTouch, which we used previously. With that in mind, let’s create a new enum with the possible values to place in the PlayerBehaviour script above the Swipe Properties header:
    [Tooltip("How fast the ball moves forwards
        automatically")]
    [Range(0, 10)]
    public float rollSpeed = 5;
    public enum MobileHorizMovement
    {
     ...
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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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