Table of Contents

* Exploring the Genre * Unity UI-Basics and Getting Started * Scripting-Getting your Feet Wet * Terrain Generation-Creating a Test Environment * Navigation and Introduction to Functionality * Cursor Control * Action Objects * Managing State * Object Metadata * Message Text * Inventory Logic * Managing the Inventory * Finishing the Basic Functionality * Getting Down to the Game * Maze and Final Sequence * Menus and Levels * Beyond the Basics * Appendix A: Shader Graphs * Appendix B: Keyboard Key Names * Appendix C: Final Sequence Outline

About the Author

Sue Blackman has been an instructor in the 3D field for nearly 20 years at art schools and community colleges. She has been involved with the commercial development of real-time 3D engines for more than 10 years. In the past, she has been a contributing author for New Riders Press (Max4 Magic) and written for AMC Siggraph on serious games. She has written product training materials and instruction manuals for developing content with real-time 3D applications, used by multimedia departments in Fortune 1000 companies including Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, among others. In addition to writing and teaching, Sue has been the lead 3D artist on several games for Activision and its subsidiaries.