Unity 2017 Game Development Essentials - Third Edition

Hello everybody,
I am proud to announce that finally, after a long way through the Unity 5.x and 2017.x cycles, while becoming a daddy and meanwhile trying to make Robocraft game better at Freejam, I could finally complete the third - written from scratch - edition of the well-known book originally written by Will Goldstone, published by PACKT.

• Learn Unity basics making a simple 2D game and master it by developing a 3D adventure game.
• Discover how to make a realistic environment and to implement gameplay and fx based on physics: ragdolls, particles deflection, collisions, forces.
• Optimize your game with automated and scripted techniques: occlusion culling, layer culling, dynamic LOD, dynamic resolution, mixed lighting.
• Test and profile your game and be ready to share to the world!

All that and more on Unity 2017 Game Development Essentials - Third Edition.
Available on digital for buyers and Mapt subscribers as well as hard copy:
https://www.packtpub.com/game-development/unity-2017-game-development-essentials-third-edition
On Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Unity-2017-Game-Development-Essentials-ebook/dp/B01K6VVBW8

You can download a playable demo for Windows and Mac from my web page at the Games - Download section or directly from the links here:
http://www.litobyte.com/download/Devil_Island_PC.zip
http://www.litobyte.com/download/Devil_Island_MacOSX.zip

Enjoy the game and consider this thread for any question about the book.
You can find my personal details on my portfolio web page.

 

Congrats on the updated publication of your book, and on becoming a father, as well!

 

Congrats Tom.

I know it takes a lot of dedication to write such a book.

 

Thank you, yes it did.
Especially to follow / fix / tweak the quick 2017.x cycle layout compared to the original 5.x project.

 

Woooo, that's great! Really complete and updated!
Keep up the good work!

 

Hi, I don't if this is the good spot.

When I try to run the brick wall and bullet game at the begining of the book I get those problems:

Assets/Shooter.cs(25,110): error CS0200: Property or indexer `UnityEngine.Vector3.forward' cannot be assigned to (it is read-only)
Assets/Shooter.cs(26,12): error CS0200: Property or indexer `UnityEngine.Vector3.forward' cannot be assigned to (it is read-only)
Assets/Shooter.cs(27,23): error CS0103: The name `fwd' does not exist in the current context


Please help, I am a complete noob

BTW: Great book! Explicite everything from scratch! Love it!!

 

The book has some very good parts and the author is competent in Unity but the sad reality is that it has too many flaws (like do step 5 and dozen pages later the author introduce step 2 - perhaps the text rearranged between the editions so the overview was lost). The code files are often outdated (Unity 2017.3 batters you with error messages and warnings when you try to open the official files) so you can not complete the project. Please read all the one and two star reviews at Amazon. I had can confirm that all these problems are real and i also wrote a note to the publisher. The book should have never been published. When you want learn Unity read the Docs and look at the Tutorials.

 

Ah! I took a book because I am abroad on a camping with too limited data for youtube tutorials (I actually bought a udemy course for this --- I know you can view udemy courses offline on mobile device but I just took the laptop)

I am still going to flip through the book to learn the basic concepts.

Thx!