This hands-on beginners guide gets you building games fast, all with the awesome Unity engine! You’ll speed past the basics and use your existing coding skills to create 2D, 3D, and AR/VR games.

In Unity in Action, Third Edition, you will learn how to:

• Create characters that run, jump, and bump into things
• Build 3D first-person shooters and third-person action games
• Construct 2D card games and side-scrolling platformers
• Script enemies with AI
• Improve game graphics by importing models and images
• Design an intuitive user interface for your games
• Play music and spatially-aware sound effects
• Connect your games to the internet for online play
• Deploy your games to desktop, mobile, and the web

Thousands of new game developers have chosen Joe Hocking’s Unity in Action as their first step toward Unity mastery. Starting with the initial groundwork of a new game development project, you’ll quickly start writing custom code instead of clicking together premade scripts. This fully updated third edition comes packed with fully refreshed graphics, Unity’s latest features, and coverage of augmented and virtual reality toolkits. You'll master the Unity toolset from the ground up, learning the skills to go from application coder to game developer.