Comments on: Book review “Unity Game Development Essentials”

By: Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual

Unity Game Development Essentials is here. Now Read the F***ing Manual — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51:55 +0000

[...] Bartek Drodz- of Everyday Flash website and 3D Flash Guru wrote advises beginners that “It’s probably a good idea to get this book” and concurs that “The important thing is that the book explains all the basics leaving you well prepared to explore the rest.” DISCLOSURE: I Would like to thank Packt Publishing for providing me with a copy of Unity Game Development Essentials for the purpose of reviewing the book. Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: Will Goldstone

Will Goldstone — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:44:48 +0000

Hi Bartek, just wanted to say thank you very much for the review, fascinating to hear how the book is being received. I’ve worked with Unity for a few years but am originally from a design background and always felt a little bewildered compared to peers in the IRC channel, and so hopefully this resource will help people like me starting out in Unity who aren’t coming at it from a coding background. Hope you all enjoy it, cheers again Bartek, I am humbled!

By: bartek drozdz

bartek drozdz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:29:41 +0000

@Scott Petrovic Totally agreed. Code structuring inside a project seems to me like the biggest challenge – Unity3D is a bit different from Flash, but it’s pretty easy to make a mess very similar to what people (including me) used to do in early Flash i.e. spread code across tens of keyframes…

By: Scott Petrovic

Scott Petrovic — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:37:00 +0000

I have read over half of the book and think it is pretty beneficial for someone who has little game design experience. I have done some programming being a web designer, but a lot of concepts are unique to game design. It is an “essentials” book, so I don’t think you can really expect it to also talk about advanced topics as well.

I think if another book is being written, it should be more of a reference manual for the API as well as having structure and networking hurdles. Will’s book covers the basics pretty well, so any more books that come out will be hard to compete if it is at the same level.

By: samBrown

samBrown — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:24:46 +0000

thanks for posting the review. I’m just started wading into Unity and was thinking about grabbing the book.

I agree 100% that it’s nice to have a solid resource in your hands instead of 10 bookmarked pages and forums. Forums are def a valuable resource, but not always easy to navigate.

After reading your review – the book looks like a great place to start.