OUYA Game Development by Example电子书

OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz – heading

Have a go hero – heading

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Experiencing the OUYA

Setting up the console

Networking

Displaying games

Time for action – installing your first game

What just happened?

Playing the OUYA

Touch controls

Summary

2. Installing Unity and the OUYA ODK

Installing the game engine

Time for action – setting up Unity

What just happened?

Downloading and configuring additional packages

Time for action – downloading Java, the Android SDK, and the ODK

What just happened?

Modifying the PATH variable

Time for action – editing PATH on Mac OS

What just happened?

Time for action – editing PATH on Windows

What just happened?

Installing packages with the Android SDK

Time for action – installing Android packages

What just happened?

Configuring the USB connection

Time for action – configuring the USB driver on Windows

What just happened?

Time for action – exporting OUYA packages from Unity

What just happened?

Time for action – importing packages into a new workspace

What just happened?

Pop quiz – small parts of a whole

Summary

3. Diving into Development

Creating a 3D text prototype

Time for action – manipulating the scene

What just happened?

Time for action – creating and scripting 3D text

What just happened?

Have a go hero – flexing your new muscle

Creating a custom function

Time for action – writing a function

What just happened?

Time for action – capturing data with return values

What just happened?

Time for action – controlling functions with parameters

What just happened?

Making our scripts interactive

Time for action – adding keyboard interaction to scripts

What just happened?

Deploying our code on OUYA

Time for action – running your first test on OUYA

What just happened?

Pop quiz – hello world

Summary

4. Moving Your Player with Controller Input

Creating an interactive marble prototype

Time for action – setting the scene

What just happened?

Time for action – importing a Unity input script

What just happened?

Time for action – turning input into movement

What just happened?

Time for action – movement with the OUYA SDK

What just happened?

Adding additional functionality to our marble

Time for action – adding button features

What just happened?

Time for action – improving the camera

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating your own camera

Completing our game

Time for action – adding a goal zone

What just happened?

Pop quiz – coming full circle

Summary

5. Enhancing Your Game with Touch Dynamics

Using the touchpad to interact with buttons

Creating the cannonball prototype

Time for action – creating a cannon prefab

What just happened?

Time for action – creating an interactive button

What just happened?

Time for action – adding an impulse force to a rigidbody component

What just happened?

Using cursor data to add touch input to games

Time for action – reading mouse position in Unity

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a vector from cursor movement

What just happened?

Have a go hero – capturing touch input over multiple frames

Incorporating touch data into your mechanics

Time for action – hiding the cursor on the screen

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a target for the cannon

What just happened?

Pop quiz – touching the sky

Summary

6. Saving Data to Create Longer Games

Creating collectibles to save

Time for action – creating a basic collectible

What just happened?

Have a go hero – make your prototype stand out with materials

Time for action – scripting the collectible

What just happened?

Time for action – accessing the scripts on other objects

What just happened?

Saving data with the Unity engine

Time for action – saving data with PlayerPrefs

What just happened?

Time for action – setting up a GUI Text object

What just happened?

Using save data in multiple scenes

Time for action – counting cannonballs

What just happened?

Time for action – checking high scores in a new scene

What just happened?

Time for action – displaying high score values

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding a reset button to your high score list

Saving data with the OUYA API

Pop quiz – saving (and loading) the day

Summary

7. Expanding Your Gameplay with In-app Purchases

The different kinds of in-app purchases

Entitlements

Consumables

Setting up a product on the OUYA developer portal

Time for action – preparing your game for in-app purchasing

What just happened?

Coding in-app purchasing in your game

Time for action – creating a purchase screen

What just happened?

Time for action – creating your first purchase function

What just happened?

Have a go hero – initializing product variables dynamically

Time for action – saving and loading successful purchases

What just happened?

Time for action – reflecting unlocked functionality in games

What just happened?

Adding polish with Unity Asset Store packages

Time for action – adding explosions to your cannonballs

What just happened?

Pricing your in-app purchases

Setting the price of your full game

Picking a monetization model

Have a go hero – tying it all together with more products

Pop quiz – talking shop

Summary

8. Polishing and Prepping Your Game for Deployment

Meeting the OUYA content guidelines

Time for action – containing game elements within the safe zone

What just happened?

Time for action – creating icons for your game

What just happened?

Following the Unity Submission Checklist

Polishing Unity projects in depth

Creating your game flow

Time for action – creating a title screen

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a loss screen

What just happened?

Creating a tutorial

Time for action – creating a tutorial scene

What just happened?

Time for action – linking your tutorial to your game

What just happened?

Creating a following camera in Unity

Time for action – creating a following third-person camera

What just happened?

Have a go hero – add rotation controls to your camera

Time for action – adding audio to your game

What just happened?

Packaging your project for submission

Time for action – creating your game on the developer portal

What just happened?

Pop quiz – the end of the beginning

Summary

9. Blazing Your Own Development Trail

Expanding your skills with advanced challenges

Working with shaders in depth

Time for action – creating a custom font with a text shader

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a fire effect with a particle shader

What just happened?

Advanced data saving

Time for action – saving the player's position

What just happened?

Making a more polished GUI

Time for action – creating a reusable GUI Skin

What just happened?

Time for action – making an automatically scaling GUI texture

What just happened?

Lighting your scenes perfectly

Time for action – adding realism to your scene with lightmapping

What just happened?

Have a go hero – experiment with Light Probes in Unity Pro

Making your world feel real with Physics Materials

Time for action – applying an ice Physics Material

What just happened?

Have a go hero – playing with other Physics Materials

Have a go hero – making Physics Materials react realistically

Popular game development methodologies

The Waterfall model

The Agile methodology

The Scrum methodology

Basic design patterns for larger code projects

The Singleton pattern

The Factory pattern

The Command pattern

Have a go hero – implement one of the preceding patterns

Getting started with version control

Time for action – creating a BitBucket repository

What just happened?

Time for action – preparing Unity for version control

What just happened?

Time for action – making your first commit and push

What just happened?

Finding your own answers to questions online

Stack Overflow

OUYA Forums

Unity Forums

Pop quiz – leaving the nest

Summary

A. Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 2, Installing Unity and the OUYA ODK

Pop quiz – small parts of a whole

Chapter 3, Diving into Development

Pop quiz – hello world

Chapter 4, Moving Your Player with Controller Input

Pop quiz – coming full circle

Chapter 5, Enhancing Your Game with Touch Dynamics

Pop quiz – touching the sky

Chapter 6, Saving Data to Create Longer Games

Pop quiz – saving (and loading) the day

Chapter 7, Expanding Your Gameplay with In-app Purchases

Pop quiz – talking shop

Chapter 8, Polishing and Prepping Your Game for Deployment

Pop quiz – the end of the beginning

Chapter 9, Blazing Your Own Development Trail

Pop quiz – leaving the nest

Index