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Building an RPG with Unity 5.x by Vahé Karamian
Unity is one of the most cutting-edge game engine in the world. Developers are looking for the best ways to create games of any genre in the engine. This comprehensive guide on building an RPG with Unity teaches you high-end techniques currently used in developing modern games. The tips, tricks, and techniques can be applied to your own role RPG.
We begin with an introduction to, and the fundamentals of, RPG games. Moving further, you will learn the necessary parts of building an RPG, such as structuring the game environment, customizing characters, controlling the camera, and designing other attributes like inventory, weapons, and so on.
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Introduction to Game Programming: Using C# and Unity 3D by Vahé Karamian
Has been written to help anyone jump start programming. The author has chosen to specifically concentrate on Game Programming, because it makes it more pleasing for the student.
The books is written for people who have little or no programming background. If you do have some programming background, then it will solidify it even more! In other words, this books will challenge you and take your programming skills to the next level.
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Unity Network Programming
Game programming by nature is a challenging task. When you consider designing and developing a game that is multi-player enabled, the complexity doubles or triples. There are a lot of scenarios that need to be considered. Most notably, how to synchronize data between each client without decreasing performance.
Building an RPG with Unity 5.x, chapter 8, will enable you to understand the fundamental concepts of multi-player game programming. You will learn how to host a game, connect your clients and synchronize player data across all clients. You will learn how to spawn non-player characters and in-world interactive objects. You will learn how to trigger consumable items by a given player that gets synchronize with all clients and so forth.
Augmented Reality
While Virtual Reality has received much of the hype, that market may remain the province of gamers. On the other hand, AR may eventually reach everyone who has a smartphone or tablet.
With augmented reality, a shopper interested in buying a Kitchen-Aid might rely on AR software and their camera-enabled tablet to see how the appliance will look on their counter. The tablet, in video mode, can overlay an image of the mixer into the kitchen, and the shopper can walk around while holding the tablet, getting a view of the mixer from different angles.
AR also has applications for education, health care, real estate and fields such as engineering, according to Goldman Sachs.