Phew, it has been a torturous time since my book was released back in August, my first experience releasing my work in printed / ebook form through a publisher only to find that lots of changes made it in to the book on release. Needless to say I was shocked and have been working hard with the publisher to fix what had been broken.
It’s finally here, my first title has now been published on Packt’s publishing site and all of the leading online bookstores (probably a few less reputable as well ??). If you like what you see in these snippets, they you are going to love the full book. Here is an overview of what is in store for you.
In the run up to the launch of my first published title (a book this time) I’m going to be doing some short snippets from some of the many exciting things you will learn within its pages.
Unity is by far outstripping all the competition with its multi-platform game framework, especially with their recent win in the Develop awards for best game engine (well done team). So with the influx of new books to aid new developers, things are only going to keep moving and fast.
Unity has a very big focus at the moment (when it’s not building awesome tools) to help better educate its adopters and raise the bar on the quality of its samples.
Check the Post on the Unity forms discussing this practice here – http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/245400-Unity-5-Beta-Insights
**Update, Unity have now written a post on the changes posed for Unity 5 and the inner workings, well worth a read – http://bit.ly/1pf5Wog
Another interesting post has arisen which also includes some timing and stats for using cached components verses using the shortcuts, check it out – http://bit.ly/1pfaUkQ
When you use components and scripts in your Unity3D project and then want to access them in code, it is very easy to just start writing:
While I am busy working on my own Unity3D 2D title coming soon to PacktPub, I decided to come up for air to see what other titles are now gracing the shelves, I was pleasantly surprised.
Continuing the book review season, here is the second book I have looked at recently, an interesting twist in the series of game development.
The Opensource movement is truly one of the great things of the current generation, almost bringing back the sharing and caring community of the 60’s (not that I was around then but I hear it was nice), well almost
Before bringing this post to focus on Unity3D it is important to understand what Opensource is all about and break down some myths. To explain this a recent video got release which I feel is the best explanation of what Opensource is all about:
It seems the strength of Unity holds no bounds of late going from strength to strength, yet for all the books and tutorials I have seen to date, none have gone beyond the editor itself, so it is nice to see a title address a key factor in modern games, networking.
Unity3D has been making great strides of late, it is has been one of the big go-to middleware engines for budding iOS and Android game developers and even expanded its reach to Web, Windows desktop and other platforms.
I am being battered and getting knackered with my schedule at the moment, not to mention work decided it is a good month to “ramp up” but I am coping. Still, I found time to have a look at one of PacktPubs newest titles and rather surprisingly it is a video book. So sit back relax, get your favourite 3D glasses on and have a look.