Procedural content generation for Unity game development harness the power of procedural content generation to design unique games with Unity

Harness the power of procedural content generation to design unique games with Unity About This Book Learn the basics of PCG development Develop a 2D game from start to finish Explore all the different ways PCG can be applied in games Who This Book Is For This book is for Unity game developers, espe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Watkins, Ryan, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing 2016.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Community experience distilled.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Credits; Disclaimer; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Pseudo Random Numbers; Introducing PCG; Usage of PCG; Application of PCG; Pseudo random numbers; Random versus pseudo random numbers; PRNs in PCG; Random Hello World; Classic Hello World; PCG Hello World; Challenge; Summary; Chapter 2: Roguelike Games; An introduction to Roguelike games; Why Roguelike?; Our own Roguelike project; Setting up the project; Importing the base project; File overview; Animation; Fonts; Prefabs; Scenes; Scripts; Summary
  • Chapter 3: Generating an Endless WorldData structure choice; Array; Linked list; Dictionary; PCG algorithm overview; Scene setup; Player positioning; Camera following; Layers; Initial Game Board; Connecting code; The PCG Game Board; Summary; Chapter 4: Generating Random Dungeons; Algorithm design; Algorithm overview; The grid; Essential path; Random path and chambers; Filling in the rest of the gird; Placing the entrance and exit; Algorithm summary; Data structures; Back to the map; Queue; Prefab setup; An exit sign; DungeonManager; BoardManager; Player; GameManager; Back to the Unity Editor
  • Seeding the dungeonChallenge; Summary; Chapter 5: Randomized Items; Generating health items in the game world; Implementing health item generation; Setting up sprites; Generating items in the dungeon; The Chest prefab; Chest implementation; Spawning the chest; The Item prefab; Item code; Adding player to item interaction; Summary; Chapter 6: Generating Modular Weapons; PCG with modules; Statistics of modular PCG; Creating and configuring new sprites; Creating a multiple image prefab; Modular weapon scripts; Adding a spawn point; Adding a weapon pick up; Adding scripted weapon animation
  • Adding character facing directionsSummary; Chapter 7: Adaptive Difficulty; Setting up sprites; Adding enemies to the world board; Adding enemies to the Dungeon Board; Fighting the enemy; Adaptive difficulty; Enemy AI; Finishing up; Summary; Chapter 8: Generating Music; Concept of music; Tempo; Melody; Repetition; Procedurally generated music algorithm; Measure; Dividing the measure; The base line; Setting up the script; The Sound Manager script; Adding tension; Summary; Chapter 9: Generating a 3D Planet; Adding a third dimension; 3D vs 2D; Know your geometry
  • Working with the Unity primitive sphereGenerating a sphere; Adding randomization; Bad time and space complexities; Multi mesh planet; Exploring the planet; Summary; Chapter 10: Generating the Future; Models; Items; Levels; Texture; Terrain; Physics; Animation; AI; Story; The player sandbox; Summary; Index