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Published inOct 2013
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Gary Riches
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Gary Riches

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.
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We're going to keep our controls really simple for this demo, there won't be a virtual joystick or button in sight. As we only need three functions, namely left, forward, and right, we'll be breaking the screen up in to three sections and using the left section for turning left, the center section for forward, and the right section for turning right. The following is a screenshot of the game with the control areas overlaid for illustration purposes:

We already have our control script for the game, Sokoban, so go ahead and double-click on it to edit it in MonoDevelop.

We're going to create a new method that will return true or false when we pass it in a string for the control direction we want to check. It should only return true if the tap has just happened, and not keep returning true if the user holds his finger on the screen. The method is as follows:

  // Check if an area of the screen has been
  // touched for the very first time
  bool FirstTouchForControlType(string controlType...
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Ouya Unity Game Development
Published in: Oct 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783559701

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Gary Riches

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.
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