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Published inNov 2018
Reading LevelBeginner
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781789538335
Edition1st Edition
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C#
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Unity
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3D Game Development
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Lucas Bertolini
Lucas Bertolini
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Lucas Bertolini

Lucas Bertolini has 10+ years' experience as a video game software developer. He has worked on three major projects: for Pollux Ltd. (Hong Kong) as a game developer and designer; for Schell Games (Pittsburgh, US) where he moved and worked as a developer until the project was completed; and for Globant as a developer. He has worked in technical education for 5+ years and has taught a variety of programming courses. He is the cofounder of NGA and Bytenarchy Studios, both digital services development companies that use Unity as their main technology. Lucas has written Hands-On Game Development without Coding, available from Packt.
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Technical requirements

Before starting with Unity, we have to make sure that our computer is suited to it. Please check the following requirements for developing or running a Unity game.

Don't worry, Unity runs on macOS and Windows, so we will have no trouble if you want to use your preferred operating system:

  • Unity for development:
    • Operating system:
      • Windows (64-bit versions only): 7 SP1+, 8, 10
      • macOS: 10.11+
    • GPU:
      • Graphics card with Direct X10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
  • For running Unity games:
    • In general terms, content in Unity can be developed to run on almost any device, but don't forget that this depends on the complexity of our project.
    • As we are using the game kits, the following are needed:
      • OSes are Windows 7 SP1+, macOS 10.11+, Ubuntu 12.04+, and SteamOS+
      • Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
      • CPU is SSE2 instruction set supported...
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Lucas Bertolini has 10+ years' experience as a video game software developer. He has worked on three major projects: for Pollux Ltd. (Hong Kong) as a game developer and designer; for Schell Games (Pittsburgh, US) where he moved and worked as a developer until the project was completed; and for Globant as a developer. He has worked in technical education for 5+ years and has taught a variety of programming courses. He is the cofounder of NGA and Bytenarchy Studios, both digital services development companies that use Unity as their main technology. Lucas has written Hands-On Game Development without Coding, available from Packt.
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