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unityDiscover the latest and greatest Unity books to master game development, VR, AR, shaders, mobile games, and more. Learn from top authors with books for beginners to advanced developers. Level up your Unity skills today.

Bestsellers

A range of our top selling game development products from the last year.

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Hands-On Unity  Game Development
Hands-On Unity Game Development
Jan 2024Ellipse742 Pages

$26.99$38.99
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity
Learning C# by Developing Games with Uni ...
Nov 2022Ellipse466 PagesEllipseHalf Star 5

$24.99$35.99
Unity Cookbook
Unity Cookbook
Nov 2023Ellipse780 PagesEllipseHalf Star 3

$27.98$39.99
XR Development with Unity
XR Development with Unity
Nov 2023Ellipse284 Pages

$21.99$31.99
Hands-On Game Development without Coding
Hands-On Game Development without Coding
Nov 2018Ellipse430 Pages

$20.98$29.99
Game Development Patterns with Unity 2021
Game Development Patterns with Unity 202 ...
Jul 2021Ellipse246 Pages

$20.98$29.99
Become a Unity Shaders Guru
Become a Unity Shaders Guru
Jul 2023Ellipse492 PagesEllipseHalf Star 5

$24.99$35.99
Game Physics Cookbook
Game Physics Cookbook
Mar 2017Ellipse480 Pages

$24.99$35.99
Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development
Unity 2022 Mobile Game Development
Jun 2023Ellipse480 Pages

$28.99$41.99
Unity Game Optimization
Unity Game Optimization
Nov 2019Ellipse404 Pages

$15.99$22.99

What's New

Our latest game development releases from the last few months.

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XR Development with Unity
XR Development with Unity
Nov 2023Ellipse284 Pages

$21.99$31.99
Unity Cookbook
Unity Cookbook
Nov 2023Ellipse780 PagesEllipseHalf Star 3

$27.98$39.99
Hands-On Unity  Game Development
Hands-On Unity Game Development
Jan 2024Ellipse742 Pages

$26.99$38.99

Rising Stars

Recently released game development books which are getting a lot of attention.

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The Essential Guide to Creating Multiplayer Games with Godot 4.0
The Essential Guide to Creating Multipla ...
Dec 2023Ellipse326 PagesEllipseHalf Star 1

$24.99$35.99
Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023
Creating an RTS Game in Unity 2023
Oct 2023Ellipse548 PagesEllipseHalf Star 5

$29.99$43.99
Unity Cookbook
Unity Cookbook
Nov 2023Ellipse780 PagesEllipseHalf Star 3

$27.98$39.99
Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022
Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences wi ...
Nov 2023Ellipse566 Pages

$29.99$43.99
Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles
Photorealistic Materials and Textures in ...
Oct 2023Ellipse394 Pages

$21.99$31.99
XR Development with Unity
XR Development with Unity
Nov 2023Ellipse284 Pages

$21.99$31.99

Audience Favourites

Our most rated game development products by our Customers.

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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity
Learning C# by Developing Games with Uni ...
Nov 2022Ellipse466 Pages

$24.99$35.99
Become a Unity Shaders Guru
Become a Unity Shaders Guru
Jul 2023Ellipse492 Pages

$24.99$35.99
Unity Cookbook
Unity Cookbook
Nov 2023Ellipse780 Pages

$27.98$39.99

Quick Learns

Our game development books which are under 200 pages long.

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Ouya Unity Game Development
Ouya Unity Game Development
Oct 2013Ellipse118 Pages

$13.98$19.99
Unity for Architectural Visualization
Unity for Architectural Visualization
Sep 2013Ellipse144 Pages

$15.99$22.99
Grome Terrain Modeling with Ogre3D, UDK, and Unity3D
Grome Terrain Modeling with Ogre3D, UDK, ...
Feb 2013Ellipse162 Pages

$11.99$17.99
Getting Started with Unity 5
Getting Started with Unity 5
May 2015Ellipse184 Pages

$17.99$25.99

Beginner's Corner

Our top picks for starting your game development journey.

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Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 5.x
Learning C# by Developing Games with Uni ...
Mar 2016Ellipse230 Pages

$27.98$39.99
Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition
Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third E ...
Jan 2018Ellipse254 Pages

$29.99$43.99
Unity 2018 By Example
Unity 2018 By Example
Jul 2018Ellipse484 Pages

$27.98$39.99
Gamification with Unity 5.x
Gamification with Unity 5.x
Nov 2016Ellipse328 Pages

$27.98$39.99
Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017
Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with U ...
Dec 2017Ellipse290 Pages

$29.99$43.99
Building an FPS Game with Unity
Building an FPS Game with Unity
Oct 2015Ellipse326 Pages

$27.98$39.99
Extending Unity with Editor Scripting
Extending Unity with Editor Scripting
Sep 2015Ellipse268 Pages

$27.98$39.99
Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Be ...
Sep 2011Ellipse408 Pages

$19.99$28.99
Unity Game Development Essentials
Unity Game Development Essentials
Oct 2009Ellipse316 Pages

$22.99$32.99
Unity Game Development Scripting
Unity Game Development Scripting
Dec 2014Ellipse202 Pages

$19.99$28.99

2024 Essentials

The must-have game development books and resources for this year.

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Hands-On Unity  Game Development
Hands-On Unity Game Development
Jan 2024Ellipse742 Pages

$26.99$38.99

Career Pathways

A collection of reading lists made by our expert authors to help get you your next job.
Getting Started with Unity Game DevelopmentGetting Started with Unity Game DevelopmentGetting Started with Unity Game Development
Getting Started with Unity Game DevelopmentAn enjoyable and intuitive approach to getting started with C# programming and Unity game development. This reading list will help you build a solid foundation in Unity and discover techniques to create impressive 2D/3D games, cross-platform mobile g ...

Popular Authors (5)

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Mr. Harrison Ferrone
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Harrison Ferrone is an instructional content creator for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight, tech editor for the Ray Wenderlich website, and used to write technical documentation on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College, Chicago. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back.
Most popular book by Mr. Harrison Ferrone
Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2019
Sergey Kosarevsky
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Sergey Kosarevsky is a software engineer with experience in C++ and 3D graphics. He worked for mobile industry companies and was involved in mobile projects at SPB Software, Yandex, Layar and Blippar. He has more than 12 years of software development experience and more than 6 years of Android NDK experience. Sergey got his PhD in the field of mechanical engineering from St. Petersburg Institute of Machine-Building in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In his spare time, Sergey maintains and develops an open source multiplatform gaming engine, the Linde...
Most popular book by Sergey Kosarevsky
Android NDK Game Development Cookbook
Kumsal Obuz
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Kumsal Obuz is a self taught, but veteran web developer with more than 15 years of experience in two different countries, leading teams and projects of various sizes. After several years of preparation and transition, he started his own game studio in August 2020. He launched a small puzzle strategy game at the end of 2020 and is currently working on an ambitious farming simulation game. He also likes to mentor, perhaps due to his genetic background since both of his parents are teachers, and because of his love of Godot, founded and still orga...
Most popular book by Kumsal Obuz
Game Development with Blender and Godot
Gonçalo Marques
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Gonçalo Marques has been an active gamer since the age of 6. He has been using Unreal Engine since 2016 and has done freelance and consulting work using the engine. Gonçalo also released a free and open source plugin called UI Navigation, which has garnered an extremely positive reception with over 100,000 downloads and is still receiving frequent updates and fixes. Thanks to the development of this plugin, he became an Epic MegaGrant recipient. He is now working at Funcom ZPX, a game studio in Lisbon that has contributed to games such as Conan...
Most popular book by Gonçalo Marques
Game Development Projects with Unreal Engine
Mr. Oscar Baechler
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Oscar Baechler is a CG generalist, professor, painter, photographer, open source advocate, and community organizer who teaches at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. He's published a number of mobile games with a Blender pipeline and created animation for clients both big and small. Oscar runs the Seattle Blender User Group and Ballard Life Drawing Co-op and has presented on CGI at SIGGRAPH, LinuxFest Northwest, the Blender Conference, OSCON, Usenix LISA, SeaGL, SIX, WACC, and others.
Most popular book by Mr. Oscar Baechler
Blender 3D By Example