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Getting Started with Unity 5

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Product type Book

Published in May 2015

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ISBN-13 9781784398316

Pages 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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2D Game Development

Author (1):

Dr. Edward Lavieri

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Getting Started with Unity 5

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Jiggy with the Unity Interface

2. Creating the Game Environment

3. Working with Assets

4. Animating the Game Characters

5. Scripting the Game

6. Adding a Graphical User Interface

7. Polishing and Optimizing the Game

8. What's Next?

Index

An overview of GUI

A GUI is a collection of visual components such as text, buttons, and images that facilitates a user's interaction with software. GUIs are also used to provide feedback to players. In the case of our game, the GUI allows players to interact with our game. Without a GUI, the user would have no visual indication of how to use the game. Imagine software without any on-screen indicators of how to use the software. The following image shows how early user interfaces were anything but intuitive:

We use GUIs all the time and might not pay too close attention to them, unless they are poorly designed. If you've ever tried to figure out how to use an app on your Smartphone or could not figure out how to perform a specific action with desktop software, you've most likely encountered a poorly designed GUI.

Functions of a GUI

Our goal is to create a GUI for our game that both informs the user and allows interaction between the game and the user. To that end, GUIs have two primary purposes...

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Authors (1)

Dr. Edward Lavieri

Dr. Edward Lavieri is a veteran software engineer and developer with a strong academic background. He earned a Doctorate of Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, an MS in Management Information Systems (Bowie State University), an MS in Education (Capella University), and an MS in Operations Management (University of Arkansas). He has been creating and teaching computer science courses since 2002. Edward retired from the U.S. Navy as a Command Master Chief after 25 years of active service. He is the founder and creative director of three19, a software design and development studio. Edward has authored more than a dozen technology books, including several on Java.

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