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Mastering Unity Scripting: Learn Advanced C# Tips and Techniques to Make Professional-grade Games With Unity

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Enhance your Unity development skills with help of hands-on tasks and real-world scenarios. Learn to apply C# concepts and work with event-driven programming, regular expressions, customized rendering, AI, and much more to build professional-grade games.
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Alan Thorn is an internationally recognised expert on video games and education. He specializes in mentoring the next generation of creative innovators for success. With 18 years of industry experience, Alan has written 28 books, presented 30 online courses and created 33 games including the award-wining adventure, Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok. Alan is dedicated to helping creative teams make high-impact experiences, and he currently leads the prestigious MA programme for 'Games Design and Development' at the BAFTA-winning 'National Film and Television School', an incubation space for breakthrough gaming talent. Alan is a pioneer of the new 'Open Stream model' of Transformative Learning, and he advises in Higher Education on curriculum content and instructional design. Alan speaks passionately worldwide about the future of game creation

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Jodee
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! Very helpful understanding video game programming for
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2016
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Amazing! Very helpful understanding video game programming for Unity3D
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Paul Haynes
4.0 out of 5 stars Not For Beginners
Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2016
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All-in-all, a good book and the author is easy to read. But it is definitely not for beginning C# programmers. If you want to learn the C# language, look elsewhere. The author even states in his introduction that it is for "intermediate and advanced" programmers who are already familiar with C# and Unity. His book basically ties the two together. Even though he explains his code snippets well, there is much left unsaid about what is C# in general and what is Unity specific.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Here are some of the things I liked about this book… + Contains good information on Unity ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2016
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I have mixed feelings about this book. About half way through, I was ready to give it 5 stars. But my opinion changed while reading the 2nd half. It seems as though the author was trying to write a book that beginners and advanced coders could benefit from, and in the process, created one that isn’t ideal for either.

Here are some of the things I liked about this book…

+ Contains good information on Unity programming concepts like GameObjects, events, integration with Git, etc.
+ Debugging section was great (I learned a lot from it)
+ Contains good information on improving code quality and efficiency.

And here are some of the things that I thought could have been better …

- The books states it is an advanced book intended for people already familiar with Unity scripting, yet the 1st 50 pages are a review of basic C# and general OO principles. Those pages do contain some Unity specifics, so readers familiar with C# still need to go through it. I would prefer to separate the generic from the Unity specific, or remove the generic altogether and assume C# as a prerequisite.
- The book seemed to change from a “guide” in the first half to more of a “cookbook” in the second half. Latter chapters appear to be a collection of “how tos” for certain things, with explanations not much more than comments about the code.

Overall it was still a good read and I learned a lot, so I gave it 3* because there was no 3 1/2 star rating. For anyone wanting to get a good understanding of how Unity animations work, however, the author’s book “Unity Animation Essentials” is a 5* read.
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Bartleby47
5.0 out of 5 stars Really worth the price.
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015
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Very useful stuff. Definitely recommend it.
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TooManyHobbies
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but parts a little too advanced for me
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2015
I started reading this book thinking I was getting good at Unity and C#, but after reading a few chapters I quickly realized I was still a babe-in-arms and had so much more to learn. (Quick note: I used to be a full time Java / Oracle Forms programmer, but after switching to careers about 10 years ago I haven't had much opportunity to code anything other than Fortran and awk. I really miss programming which is why I'm trying to learn Unity.)

Chapter 1 - Unity C# Refresher was an excellent chapter. It is called a refresher, but I learned a lot of new stuff from it.

Chapter 2 - Debugging was also a great chapter. If you are new to programming it is worth buying the book just to read this chapter. It explains a bunch of different debug methods and the pro and cons of each. It explains how Unity and MonoDevelop communicate. It explains how to filter errors and warnings in the Unity Console, how to setup custom debug messages using Debug.Log (and why this is not a good approach to debugging). How the Global Define flag in Unity can be used to compile a code version with or without debug messages depending on how the code is set. It shows how to implement error logging in Unity using IO Stream Writers. It also shows how to setup in-editor debugging within Unity itself. The chapter includes an explanation of the Unity Profiler, but this option requires Unity Pro which I don't have. There is an extensive section on setting Breakpoints and Tracepoints in MonoDevelop which is great for helping you track down run-time errors. This chapter is a gold mine of debugging information.

Chapter 3 - With chapter three I started to feel a bit inadequate. The focus of the chapter was the methods available to search for, reference and access objects in a scene. The concepts were easy to understand, but the details were overwhelming. I began to feel like I should put this book away and come back to it after I finished several games of my own design. Maybe if I finish a few original games I would better able to appreciate the problems and solutions being described in the chapter.

But I soldiered on and read Chapters 4, 5, & 6. Again I understood the general concepts but the problems and solutions being explained were well beyond my experience.

Chapter 7 - This chapter on Artificial Intelligence got me excited when I read that all the concepts explained in previous chapters would be put in action via a Maze Game. (In the previous chapters snippets of code were used to explain the concepts.) The AI chapter went to great lengths to explain artificial Intelligence as it pertained to gaming. The best comment was that AI is not about building a model of the human mind, but instead it is only about creating behaviors that make a character act as we'd expect them to under specific conditions. Very enlightening. Next came the setup of the Unity project, and then these instructions: "Add a first-person controller and the maze mesh to the scene (the mesh is included in the book's companion files) and create some lighting and light mapping to make things look good initially." That was it for the instructions. No hand-holding in this book. Thankfully there was an "Initial Setup" version of the project was provided in the book's downloadable code so I loaded that.

But then came the next set of instruction to continue building the game: "Add a new mesh to the level that should act as a teleporter pad or platform when stepped upon. For this example, I used a standard box mesh with a particle system for enhanced effect. Then attach an off-mesh link component to the mesh object. Assign the object's transform to the Start field of the off-mesh link component. Then for the End field, assign the destination transform."

Sorry, no can do. Have no idea what an off-mesh link component is, let alone how to assign it. At this point I realized that the book expected a level of expertise that I just didn't have (yet). I decided I need to re-read my intro Unity books and then complete a few basic games of my own. At that point I might be able to appreciate the information packed into this book.

So if you have completed at least 2 or 3 Unity games this books will probably be a gold mine of information, but if you are still relatively new to Unity you might want to get a little more experience before attempting something of this sophistication.
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Jlthorne
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016
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Michelle
5.0 out of 5 stars A detailed and concise read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2022
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I'm enjoying this book for unity development. I've already learned a lot of this stuff through trial and error or Google searches. I wish I had this book two years ago though. There's a load of useful information for anyone getting into coding for Unity games.
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Ankit
4.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in India on March 16, 2019
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not easy to understand foreign author but keep trying. Boon for beginner game developers.
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aditya g.
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in India on December 21, 2016
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Yep it a very useful book if u want to go into medium level unity programing
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